U.S. Forces Launch Assault on Iraqi Rebels in Mosul
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through  Iraq's third largest city.
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US troops were drawn into a new offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday to tackle a tide of insurgency unchecked by the military assault on Falluja.
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In a two-hour long battle, American troops along with warplanes killed 25 insurgents who used car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades to try to overrun an American combat outpost in Mosul on Wednesday afternoon.
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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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U.S. troops hunted rebels in the battered Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday, but rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a powerful car bomb that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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Insurgents stormed two police stations Sunday in the strife-ridden city of Mosul, killing at least six Iraqi troops as attacks spread throughout Sunni Muslim areas following the U.S.-led assault on Fallujah.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- American troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents as they attacked a US outpost in Mosul with a car bomb and explosives, the military said Thursday.
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INSURGENTS attacked two more police stations in Mosul yesterday after American and Iraqi reinforcements poured into the northern city to put down a four-day-old uprising.
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US and Iraqi troops pushed into insurgent-heavy neighbourhoods and stormed police stations in Mosul on Tuesday, launching an offensive to retake parts of the northern Iraqi city where rebels staged a mass uprising last week in support of
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US and Iraqi troops were targeting groups of insurgents in Mosul to gain control of the northern Iraqi city, the military said. The assault on Mosul, Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, follows
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American troops and warplanes repulsed a large insurgent attack against an outpost in the restive northern city of Mosul, killing at least 25 rebels, the US military said Thursday.
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U.S.-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Falluja for the third straight day.
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The US military says it has attacked  suspected rebel targets in Mosul after an upsurge in violence in the northern Iraqi city.
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U.S. Marines lobbed mortar rounds at rebels in Falluja Saturday during a five-day-old assault that has caused a "catastrophe" for civilians there and fueled a revolt in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
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U.S. forces accompanied by the Iraqi  national guard launched a major offensive against insurgents in  the northern Iraqi city of Samarra Thursday, CNN reported.
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About 15 rebels have been killed by Iraqi and US forces over a 24-hour period in Mosul, while the United States plans Friday to further strengthen troops in Iraq.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces have launched air  strikes on Iraq's third largest city of Mosul, targeting  insurgents who have attacked police stations and fought fierce  street battles this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.