US launches major Iraq offensive
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The US military says 10,000 US and Iraqi troops are moving against al-Qaeda networks north of Baghdad.
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US forces launched air strikes against targets in Iraq&#39;s third largest city of Mosul after fierce street battles for the second day, the US military and witnesses said on Friday.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second
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Thousands of US and Iraqi troops have begun a long-awaited ground offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah from terrorists and insurgents.
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Iraqi soldiers and the US army have begun operations against the insurgents in some parts of Mosul, a northern city of Iraq. Angela Bowman, a US military officer, said that the Iraqi and US forces began operating
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early Friday, securing government and police buildings in the city, the U.S. command said.
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US planes and artillery pounded Falluja on Monday and Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he had authorized a US-led offensive to rid the Sunni Muslim city of insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early Friday, securing government and police buildings in the city, the U.S...
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The US military begins a big operation to secure police stations seized by insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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The long-awaited Baghdad security operation has begun, the top United States military spokesman in Iraq said today.
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BAGHDAD: More than 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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US and Iraqi forces are conducting a major offensive to root out insurgents in the central Iraqi city of Samarra. In the largest operation seen in the city in several months, an estimated
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US military officials in Iraq say American and Iraqi forces have launched operations against insurgents in the northern city of Mosul.
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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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US forces stormed key areas of Fallujah early today, in what appeared to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the rebel stronghold.
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Billed as the biggest urban fight since Vietnam, US forces in Iraq launched a major assault at nightfall.