US forces bombard holy Iraqi city
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US forces in the Iraqi  city of Najaf carry out  an overnight assault on militia loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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US forces hammered southern Fallujah with renewed airstrikes and artillery yesterday, hitting mortar positions and sniper nests, in preparation for a ground assault on insurgents trapped in this part of the former militant stronghold.
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U.S. warplanes pounded the rebel-held  Iraqi city early on Monday as ground forces fought fierce  clashes with insurgents on the outskirts of the city, witnesses  said.
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US jets have launched a new assault on Shi&#39;ite militia positions in the Iraqi city of Najaf. The attack follows a stall in talks on the transfer of control of the mosque in the southern holy city.
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US forces launched airstrikes against suspected militant bases in Fallujah and carried out probing attacks on the city&#39;s outskirts
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US planes and artillery pounded Falluja on Monday and Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he had authorized a US-led offensive to rid the Sunni Muslim city of insurgents.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 meters (yards) of a besieged shrine  at the center of a near three-week insurgency.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 meters (yards) of a holy shrine at  the center of a near three-week insurgency.
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The US military planes unleashed cannon and howitzer fire early Sunday on positions held by militants loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the besieged sacred city of Najaf.
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Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb as a US convoy passed in Baghdad and gunmen tried to storm the main police station in Samarra on
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Meanwhile, British Muslim officials arrive in Baghdad to try to win a British hostage&#39;s freedom. BY BASSEM MROUE. BAGHDAD, Iraq - US warplanes, tanks and artillery repeatedly hammered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s
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NAJAF: Missiles damaged the outer wall of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf as US planes pounded militia positions in the city on Monday.
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US tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf today as fierce clashes with Shiite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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US troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes and tank fire Sunday as the Iraqi government appealed to residents to expel &quot;foreign terrorists&quot; to prevent an all-out attack.
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A US warplane struck three suspected insurgents as they planted an artillery shell on a street in Baghdad&#39;s northeastern Shiite district of Sadr City on Friday, a military spokesman said.
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Iraqi forces, backed by US troops, kill three people in a raid on one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques.
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BAGHDAD - US warplanes and tanks pummeled Fallujah on Sunday as intense battles raged on the outskirts of the insurgent-held city.