Mortar Attack, Kidnapping Heighten Iraq Tensions
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Description: A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad kills four guardsmen and wounds dozens of other Iraqis.
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At least nine Iraqis have been killed and several injured in sporadic gunbattles and mortar attacks between Muqtada al-Sadr loyalists and US-led forces in Baghdad.
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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday in a brazen daylight attack that underlined a call by a top U.S. general for action to take back the streets from sectarian death squads.
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As Iraq's interim prime minister formally authorized an attack on the rebel-held city of Fallujah, U.S.-led forces clashed with insurgents just outside the city limits Monday after seizing a hospital and two bridges overnight.
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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US forces continued to battle Iraqis in the insurgent bastion of Falluja on Wednesday as the kidnapping of two Italian aid workers in central Baghdad prompted workers for foreign charities workers to consider leaving Iraq.
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Iraqi government forces carried out a series of assaults in Saddam Hussein&#39;s home region yesterday that were followed by conflicting reports that his former right-hand man was captured.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are struggling to ease sectarian tension in one of Iraq's most volatile areas where much of the population seeking security turns to terrorists, not Iraqi troops or police, a U.S. commander said on Friday.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday &#151; a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an  Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of  death.
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Backed by air power, U.S. forces targeting militants believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of two coalition soldiers raided the main Shiite district in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baghdad on Thursday, kidnapping a Turk who was staying there and killing six Iraqis, local witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The US Embassy confirms an American is among six people kidnapped during a bloody gun battle in Baghdad yesterday. Two of the six -- both Iraqi guards -- have since been let go.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baghdad on  Thursday, kidnapping a Turk who was staying there and killing  six Iraqis, local witnesses said.