Battle 'almost over' in Falluja
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US and Iraqi forces say they now control almost all of Falluja, amid concern over the distribution of aid supplies.
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United States commanders say the heavy fighting that has marked the assault against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah is probably over but pockets of resistance still have to be weeded out.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces punched to  the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, consolidating positions in  Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of fierce combat.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - Fighting erupted in Falluja  Monday as U.S. marines took up positions for an expected  full-scale offensive on the Iraqi rebel-held city, a Reuters  witness said.
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US troops today pushed further towards the centre of Falluja after a night of artillery and aerial bombardment of the city. The Associated Press reported heavy street fighting in the northern districts from
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US-led forces say they expect several more days of fighting with the remaining Iraqi insurgents in Falluja.
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FALLUJA was a city under siege last night as Operation al Fajr, Arabic for dawn, began. The hope is that victory for some 15,000 US Marines, soldiers and Iraqi forces, who launched a full-scale attack on the
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Fierce fighting killed eight American soldiers and wounded at least seven more yesterday as reports indicated that the long-awaited US assault on the insurgent-held city of Falluja had begun.
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A battle erupted near a mosque in  northwest Falluja Friday just hours after U.S. Marines said  insurgents were now trapped in the south of the city.
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Well-armed insurgents will retreat  into the heart of Falluja before making a stand against U.S.  and Iraqi troops aiming to take control of the city, the top  American officer in Iraq predicted on Monday.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja today, as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja early on Monday as ground forces battled insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Iraq says the battle to retake the rebel bastion of Fallujah was over, with more than 1,000 insurgents killed, but US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the reports are premature, and US commanders say the six-day assault
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Resistance dwindled in the last  rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, U.S. officers said, but  explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi Red  Crescent convoy waited nearby to distribute relief.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - Twenty-two American troops  have been killed and 170 wounded in the four-day assault on  Falluja that has seen U.S. forces take about 80 percent of the  rebel city so far, a U.S. Marine general said on Friday.
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US marines say they have trapped most of the insurgents in Falluja in the south of the Iraqi city.
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IRAQ was on the brink of an all-out assault on rebel-held Fallujah today as deadly clashes erupted between US troops and insurgents in the neighbouring city of Ramadi.