US outposts set up in violent neighborhoods
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BAGHDAD -- American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the two-week-old Baghdad security plan.
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Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops set up outposts Sunday in southern parts of Ramadi as part of an operation to establish Iraqi army bases in the country&#039;s largest Sunni Arab city and wrest it away from months of insurgent control.
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Six months after Sadr City erupted in rebellion, US forces are launching a renewed campaign to wrest control of the vast Baghdad neighborhood from radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s forces.
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents
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Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets is not the first block you might try if you were looking to find boys and girls with guns. And none of Manhattan, for that matter, presents good odds for turning up children engaged in paramilitary maneuvers.
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U.S. planes struck a militant stronghold that has recently been coordinating attacks against coalition forces.
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets
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BAGHDAD -- Baghdad's streets were electric with tension yesterday as US officials confirmed the new security operation was underway. US armor rushed through streets, and Iraqi armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections.
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For two months, this historic city of commerce and culture was a "no-go" zone for American troops, firmly in the grip of religious extremists, some linked to al-Qaida. During that time, residents say they endured a reign of terror, where gunmen snatched men from their homes and killed at least 10 of them as American spies.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - The US and Iraqi forces who entered this militant stronghold on Monday were prepared for days of fierce street fighting with insurgents who have been building defenses for months.
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BAGHDAD - After a week of violence that killed 19 Americans and challenged the authority of Iraq&#39;s interim government in vast areas of the country, US commanders launched airstrikes Thursday on two cities controlled by insurgents and sent troops into a
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American forces battled through boobytrapped lanes in a swift advance to city center. The military said at least 71 militants and 10 U.S. troopers were killed as of the beginning of the third day of intense urban combat.
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Insurgents launched strikes on Saturday at United States and Iraqi outposts across Iraq, killing at least a dozen Iraqi police officers and national guardsmen
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U.S. Army engineers have torn down houses and surrounded the newly cleared space with razor wire atop concrete blast walls for neighborhood bases, the first outward signs of the coming Baghdad security crackdown.
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The new push by U.S. and Iraqi forces to reverse a rising tide of violence in Baghdad will target four violent "hotspots" in the city, the American general in charge of the plan said Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan US-led forces trying to protect next month&#39;s landmark elections in Afghanistan are facing a rising wave of violence from several thousand insurgents.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces yesterday pummeled what commanders said were the last insurgent strongholds here, two narrow patches of territory on the southern edge of Fallujah, fortified by bunker and tunnel complexes.