Iraq insurgents forced from government buildings
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BAGHDAD - As many as 100 militants stormed a police station and city hall in Al Khalis, 65 kilometres north of Baghdad on Saturday, sparking a two-hour gun battle.
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Troops surrounded government buildings and seized ministers' cars Tuesday to try to force the elected government to resign in what the prime minister said was "virtually a coup."
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U.S. and Iraqi troops took control  of government and police buildings in the rebel Iraqi  stronghold of Samarra early on Friday, the U.S. military said.
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Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital could soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.
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Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi government ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machineguns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militants in the capital since the U.S. invasion.
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Insurgents staged nearly simultaneous attacks Friday morning at opposite ends of Baghdad, killing 30 people, freeing dozens of prisoners and emptying a police arsenal in a demonstration of the militants' strength in the heart of Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents who have vowed to disrupt Iraq's parliamentary elections unleashed attacks yesterday across Iraq, from the kidnapping of a Catholic archbishop and a car bombing at a police station in the north to mortar attacks on polling stations in Basra in the south. At least 18 people were killed.
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US and Iraqi forces have pushed into the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad and taken control of key government buildings and religious sites.
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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Heavy casualties are reported as US and Iraqi forces try to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar.
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Insurgents fired mortars and rockets at a venue where Iraq&#39;s interim national assembly held its first session Wednesday, a stark reminder of the country&#39;s risky road to elections in January.
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Insurgents bombed Iraq's Ministry of Municipalities building as top Iraqi officials gathered there Monday morning for a celebration, Iraqi officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops took control  of government and police buildings in Samarra early on Friday  after insurgents had undermined security in the Iraqi city, the  U.S. military said.
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Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital can soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.
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The US-led offensive in Fallujah touched off political turmoil Tuesday as the country&#39;s most influential Sunni political group announced its withdrawal from the government
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US and Iraqi forces across Fallujah forced insurgents into the south of the city, carrying out house- to-house searches to try to rid the area of rebels that oppose the interim administration
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U.S. and Iraqi troops took control of government and police buildings in Samarra early on Friday after insurgents had undermined security in the Iraqi city, the U.S. military said.