U.S.-Backed Iraqi Troops Raid Mosul Mosque
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops  left a mosque they were raiding for suspected insurgents in  Mosul on Friday after coming under fire, witnesses said.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- US and Iraqi troops stormed insurgent-held police stations and neighborhoods in this northern city Tuesday, retaking a number of sites seized last week by gunmen who rose up in support of militants in Fallujah.
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U.S. troops launched fresh raids Thursday around the northern city of Mosul to rein in guerillas who have threatened to disrupt the upcoming election. Iraqi forces sealed off main routes into Baghdad one day after a wave of car bombings rocked the capital.
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Description: US and Iraqi government troops raid one of Baghdad&#39;s main Sunni Muslim mosques, killing several Iraqis. The Iraqi government has ordered the arrest of Muslim clerics accused of inciting violence and supporting the Iraqi insurgency.
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In a crackdown on militant clerics, Iraqi forces backed by US troops have raided a major Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad. At least three people were killed and 40 arrested.
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DIWANIYA, Iraq  - U.S. troops raided an office of   the political movement led by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada   al-Sadr in a southern Iraqi city on Thursday and several people   were hurt in subsequent disturbances, witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- US and Iraqi troops recaptured police stations and secured bridges in Mosul on Tuesday in an offensive aimed at pushing out fighters supporting the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched  operations in Mosul Tuesday to rid Iraq's third largest city of  groups of insurgents who have rampaged through several  neighborhoods for the past six days.
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U.S. troops staged a series of raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq on Sunday, arresting dozens, while insurgents stepped up their attacks two weeks ahead of national elections, ambushing a car carrying a prominent female candidate and killing 17 people in other assaults.
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MOSUL, Iraq : US and Iraqi forces backed by aircraft swept into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to secure police stations and restore order as insurgents in Fallujah fought US-led troops to the death.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops pushed into insurgent-heavy neighborhoods and stormed police stations in Mosul on Tuesday, launching an offensive to retake parts of this northern Iraqi city where militants staged a mass uprising last week in support of insurgents in Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi forces backed by U.S. soldiers and Marines raided mosques Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and detained a prominent cleric following fierce clashes that hospital officials said killed at least four people...
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U.S. and Iraqi forces on Wednesday raided a hospital in Ramadi that they suspect is a base for insurgents.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. troops backed by warplanes  killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on  Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two  suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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US and Iraqi troops have recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul in an offensive aimed at pushing out fighters supporting the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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Raids on mosques and the arrests of several hardline Sunni clerics have raised fears the US-led assault on the Sunni insurgent stronghold
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Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, have arrested a hardline Sunni cleric and about two dozen others after a raid of his Baghdad mosque uncovered weapons caches along with photographs of recent attacks on American troops, the U.S. military and the Iraqi National Guard said.