US tanks &#39;encircle Najaf shrine&#39;
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American tanks have reportedly encircled the Imam Ali shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf, after intensively bombarding rebel positions overnight.
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U.S. commanders are again preparing for an assault on Najaf's Old City, which surrounds the rebel base at the shrine of Imam Ali.
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NAJAF, Iraq (CNN) -- US forces Friday resumed offensive operations outside the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf in an effort to pressure fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who are holed up in the mosque complex.
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US warplanes pounded Mehdi Army positions in Najaf early Monday as fighting continued between US-Iraqi forces and militiamen loyal to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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US tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf today as fierce clashes with Shiite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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NAJAF, IRAQ - We had run a bristling gantlet of countless snipers and checkpoints manned by US Army soldiers and Mahdi Army fighters and were now within the Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest sites in Islam and the redoubt of the ...
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US aircraft launched a fresh assault on Shi&#39;ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. tanks on Tuesday reinforced  their positions along the southern flank of Najaf's Imam Ali  shrine, scene of a three-week-old Shi'ite rebellion.
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A U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked Shi'ite militia positions in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf early on Monday after tanks reinforced the siege of a shrine at the center of a nearly three-week insurgency.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf  early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque  at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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US aircraft have begun a fresh assault on Shi&#39;ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the centre of a two-week siege stalled.
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A US military aircraft launched several strikes on suspected Shi&#39;ite militant positions in the besieged southern city of Najaf late on Monday, a Reuters witness said.
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Explosions and gunfire have rocked the Iraqi city of Najaf, with US forces battling militants loyal to a Shiite cleric. Witnesses say the militants attacked US troops with mortar rounds and the troops fired back.
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Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf on Monday amid fierce battles between US forces and Shiite militants, who remained in control of a revered shrine here as negotiations
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. planes unleashed a fierce  attack on rebel targets in Najaf early on Thursday, a Reuters  witness said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 yards of a besieged shrine at the  center of a near three-week insurgency.
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WASHINGTON : The United States pulled its punch in Iraq as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced US forces arrayed in Najaf against Shiite militants of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr were &quot;unlikely&quot; to storm the town&#39;s holy places to deal the militia ...