Iraqi forces battle cult gunmen
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and more than 50 wounded, officials said.
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US and Iraqi forces have pressed on with aggressive raids against Sunni Muslim insurgents in towns southwest of Baghdad, racing against time to quell rebellion in time for an election in January.
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood
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â¢ Gunmen in Mosul on Thursday attacked and overwhelmed several police stations and battled US and Iraqi troops around bridges across the Tigris River, the military said.
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Iraqi officials claimed Monday that 200 militants were killed in a battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival
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At least 40 Iraqis were killed on Saturday in fierce clashes near the southern city of Najaf, where Shi'ite militias are involved in a standoff with U.S.-led forces, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- A mysterious group of religious zealots who fought a fierce battle with American and Iraqi troops on Sunday were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and five antiaircraft machine guns rigged on tractors -- raising questions about how a group with no known ties to Iraq's current cast of political organizations came to be so well equipped ...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A fierce gunbattle erupted early on  Monday between U.S. troops and radical Shi'ite militants near  Najaf's holy shrine, a Reuters witness said.
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Bombers and gunmen killed 40 people in attacks on Shi'ite worshippers marking the religious Ashura ritual on Tuesday, amid heightened tension between Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslim community and once-dominant Sunni Arabs.
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Iraqi forces today joined US troops in the battle with rebel militia in the holy city of Najaf. There was fierce fighting as the joint forces moved to within 200 metres of the Imam Ali shrine, where militiamen
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BAGHDAD  - Iraqi national guardsmen raided a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, sparking bloody clashes, an AFP correspondent reported, while in the northern city of Mosul US-backed Iraqi commandos were poised to storm rebel strongholds.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the U.S. military said...
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Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machineguns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militant groups in the capital since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
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UNITED States forces and Shiite militants continued to fight fierce battles yesterday in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, with explosions and gunfire reported near a revered shrine.
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American and Iraqi forces once again fought with Insurgents in the cities of Falluja and Tall &#39;Afar, killing dozens of Iraqis in airstrikes and gunbattles.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Gunmen battled Iraqi security forces on Tuesday near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines in the city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had gathered for a religious festival.
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.