American, Iraqi troops begin operations to secure parts of Mosul
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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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American forces have stormed key areas of Fallujah early in the day, in what appears to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the city.
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Iraqi troop reinforcements will arrive in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday while tanks and helicopters are being sent for a big operation against al Qaeda militants, security officials said.
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US and Iraqi forces have controlled most police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after launching a massive offensive against insurgents.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Insurgents were in charge of some  areas of south and western Mosul on Saturday, holding two  police stations and manning road blocks, as Iraq's third  largest city appeared to slide out of U.S. and Iraqi control.
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The U.S. military raced into the streets of Mosul to root out bands of rebels. Also, a kidnapped aid worker is feared dead.
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US Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers lead Iraqi men suspected of insurgent involvement from the scene of a joint raid by Iraqi National Guard and US forces near a mosque in central Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004.
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The US-led assault on Fallujah is the first of what promises to be a series of military operations to secure towns and cities where insurgents could
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US and Iraqi troops say they have recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul . The US military also said on Wednesday that Falluja appeared calmer while operations to regain
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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 that has seen insurgents  attacking across Iraq's third largest city.
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Insurgents battling U.S. and Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul have been trying to drag the Kurdish minority into their fight and set off a sectarian war, Kurdish and Arab officials say.
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U.S. forces in Iraq on Friday launched a  big offensive in the rebel stronghold of Samarra and said they  had secured key government and police buildings.
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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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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.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces sealed off entire  districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, blocking  bridges and raiding homes in a hunt for suspects after an  attack that killed 18 Americans and four Iraqis.
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A group of Iraqis in brown-and-tan camouflage uniforms huddled around an American officer yesterday as he gave them orders for setting up a checkpoint along a dangerous stretch of highway on the outskirts of Mosul.
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Thousands of U.S. troops swept into the northern and southern beltlands of Baghdad on Wednesday in simultaneous operations against militants that the military said was the start of a "summer of hard fighting" in Iraq.