U.S. Forces Storm Iraqi Town, Say 109 Rebels Killed
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
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American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week&#039;s killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Baghdad - United States forces pounded suspected hideouts of an al-Qaeda-linked group in and around the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and battled insurgents in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 44 people, the military and the health ministry
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REBELS dealt a deadly blow in Iraq, killing 34 people in a town thought cleared of insurgents, as US forces bombarded the stronghold of Fallujah with the fiercest air and ground bombardment in months.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched fierce  attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Falluja on Thursday,  witnesses said.
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US and Iraqi troops surged into the rebel-controlled city of Samarra Friday, killing more than 90 insurgents in house-to-house combat supported by air-strikes and armor.
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The U.S.-Iraqi offensive in the city about 65 miles north of Baghdad largely overwhelms rebel forces during a night and day of occasionally intense fighting.
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A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at  Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad  street on Sunday, one of Iraq's bloodiest days for weeks in  which at least 110 people died in clashes around the country.
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Iraqi officials claimed Monday that 200 militants were killed in a battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival
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Thousands of American troops are advancing across the deadly streets and alleyways of the rebel-held city.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq : US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day as Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
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A dusk-to-dawn curfew is in place in the Iraqi city of Samarra following a major offensive Friday in which at least 109 insurgents and one American soldier were killed, military officials said.
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U.S. forces hit the rebel-held Iraqi  city of Falluja with air and artillery strikes on Friday that  residents described as the heaviest in months.
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Over 100 militants and civilians have been killed after US forces stormed the Iraqi town of Samarra. The town&#39;s hospital said dozens of bodies were brought in, including at least 11 women, five children and seven elderly men.
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US jets bombed Falluja Sunday and troops fought rebels accused of shielding foreign fighters led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America&#39;s top foe in Iraq.
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BAQOUBA, Iraq - Insurgents attacked American soldiers and Iraqi police Monday, and officials said at least nine people were killed and 15 wounded, including four US troops.