US forces storm Iraqi town
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US and Iraqi forces battled their way into the heart of one of Iraq&#39;s key insurgency strongholds Friday in the first of a series of promised major offensives to regain control of areas lost to the rebels.
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Over 100 militants and civilians have been killed after US forces stormed the Iraqi town of Samarra. The town&#39;s hospital said dozens of bodies were brought in, including at least 11 women, five children and seven elderly men.
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The US forces on Monday launched two air strikes and ground fire on Iraq&#39;s flashpoint city of Baquba after clashes between insurgents and the Iraqi security forces, killing some 20, reports reaching here from Baquba said.
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US troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes and tank fire Sunday as the Iraqi government appealed to residents to expel &quot;foreign terrorists&quot; to prevent an all-out attack.
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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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US and Iraqi forces have pushed into Samarra to wrest control of the northern town back from insurgents, and the American military said 80 militants were killed in hours of fierce street fighting and air strikes.
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US-led forces have stormed Samarra and say more than 100 guerrillas have been killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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US tanks raided the Baghdad Shi&#39;ite Muslim stronghold of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said.
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SAMARRA, IRAQ - At least 80 people were killed and 100 injured when US and Iraqi forces pounded the city of Samarra Friday in a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  on Friday and said at least 80 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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: US troops clashed Monday with Sunni insurgents west of the capital and gunmen assassinated Baghdad&#39;s deputy governor as fresh American soldiers arrived in the capital _ a move that will push US military strength in Iraq to its
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BEHIND a barrage of tank and artillery fire, US troops last night stormed into southern Falluja, overrunning the final insurgent stronghold in the city after nearly a week of intense urban combat that has killed 24 Americans and more than 1,000 insurgents
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US FORCES poised to storm Falluja carried out the heaviest bombing of the rebel-held city in months yesterday while insurgents killed more than 30 people in diversionary attacks on other Iraqi towns.
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Some 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launch an operation in a rebel stronghold south of Baghdad, the US military says.
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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.