Helmand 'seeing insurgent surge'
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The governor of Helmand province in Afghanistan says up to 700 insurgents have crossed over from Pakistan.
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NATO allies were considering urgent calls to bolster the size of their force in Afghanistan, where Britain's senior commander described fighting as more ferocious than in Iraq.
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While those numbers don't tell the full story of the conflict in Iraq, they suggest insurgents are growing more proficient, even as the size of the U.S. force increases and U.S. commanders succeed in soliciting more help from ordinary Iraqis.
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The operation by U.S. and Iraqi troops may have been aimed at a cleric said to have incited insurgent violence.
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The commanding general of American Marines in Fallujah says troops have found plenty of evidence of insurgent activity -- and they&#39;ve taken pictures of some of it.
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British forces claimed success on Monday in what they described as NATO's biggest operation yet in the southern part of the restive Afghan province of Helmand.
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Taliban militants and common criminals may have infiltrated an Afghan program that trains thousands of men affiliated with local militias to fight the country's growing insurgency.
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MOSUL: Iraqi commandos backed by US troops were preparing to storm insurgent strongholds in the city of Mosul yesterday as US-led forces continued their bid to clear the city of rebels.
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BRITISH troops joined their US and Iraqi counterparts in a massive new offensive against insurgent strongholds yesterday as efforts intensified to restore government control in time for January 30 elections.
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The major  U.S. offensive launched last weekend against insurgents in and around Baghdad has significantly expanded the military's battleground in Iraq -- "a surge of operations," and no longer just of troops, as the second-ranking U.S. commander there said yesterday -- but it has renewed concerns...
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The clever, cruel and deadly methods insurgents are using to counteract the U.S.-led surge  -  and the reasons their maneuvers are working
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British troops joined their US and Iraqi counterparts in a massive new offensive against insurgent strongholds as efforts intensified to restore government control in time for January elections.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Thousands of US and Iraqi forces swept into this insurgent stronghold yesterday, driving into the city's narrow streets and blasting suspected guerrilla positions in a massive thrust that American military leaders said would not cease until the city is under the full control of the interim Iraqi government.
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The deployment of British troops to the restive southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan has &amp;quot;energised&amp;quot; the Taliban, Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted in an interview.
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Â·  Taliban says it was behind attack on police teachers  Â·  Blast heralds rise in Iraq-style insurgency tactics
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals are hunkered down, U.S. officers said Friday.
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Al Qaeda and the Taliban appear stronger in the region than at any time since the U.S. invasion.