Soldiers find front line at Iraq house
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Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.
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The Black Watch regiment has returned to its base in Basra in southern Iraq after a month-long mission standing in for US troops in a more violent part of the country, the Ministry of Defence says.
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SAMARRA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces battled their way into the heart of this Sunni stronghold Friday and moved house to house in search of militants in what appeared to be the first major offensive to regain control of areas lost to insurgents before the January elections...
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Before he flew off to Iraq this week to take command of U.S. forces there, Gen. David H. Petraeus conducted one last mission here on the home front -- this one on Capitol Hill.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -- Camp Lejeune Marines patrolling south of Baghdad, Iraq, are getting help from British troops. The 24th Marine Exepeditionary Unit of some 2,200 troops says it is being reinforced by some
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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. helicopters battled Sunni Muslim insurgents in central Baghdad today, going house to house in one of the oldest parts of the city in search of insurgent cells and hideouts, authorities said.
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FALLUJA: US Army and Marine units pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Falluja on Tuesday, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major offensive to retake the city
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BAGHDAD -- The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while US soldiers searched for weapons house by house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.
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Hundreds of American and Iraqi soldiers patrolled the streets and conducted house-to-house searches in Sadr City, a stronghold of Iraqâs largest Shiite militia.
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American military officials said Thursday that they had discovered a house in the devastated city of Falluja that appeared to have been a headquarters
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BAGHDAD, Iraq An advance party of British soldiers has arrived at its new base near Baghdad. The small group from the Scottish Black Watch regiment set up base camp south of the capital, according to a pool report made to British media.
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HASWA, Iraq  - In the numbing cold before dawn,  Iraqi commandos backed by U.S. Marines stormed into a  farmhouse, forcing four men onto the kitchen floor and  isolating dazed women and children in adjacent rooms.
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Iraqi forces fighting alongside US troops in Fallujah yesterday claimed to have found the houses in which civilian hostages were held by militants and beheaded in front of a camera.
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The bulk of an 850-strong group of British troops are gathering near their new base in a US-controlled area of Iraq. Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment will join up with the first wave of their colleagues
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US Marine Sgt. Sean Riley of Orange County, CA, from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, watches over a supply route in Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
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U.S. troops powered their way into the center of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, overwhelming small bands of guerrillas with massive force, searching homes along the city's deserted, narrow passageways and using loudspeakers to try to goad militants onto the streets.
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US soldiers discovered a house Thursday in southern Fallujah that US military officials say had been a command center for the network of Jordanian-born guerrilla leader