Masked Rebels Block Roads in Basra
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Masked Shiite militiamen armed with rocket launchers and automatic weapons poured through the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra today, setting up roadblocks to protest at US military action in Najaf.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British forces have clashed with fighters loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra for a second day, trading gunfire in the streets for about 90 minutes, witnesses say.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Bristling with guards, the polling  station looks more like a fortress than a school, but Iraqis in  this Shi'ite Muslim city say the clampdown ahead of Sunday's  election day is reassuring.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Scores of Shi'ite militiamen took  to the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday,  brandishing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and  demanding U.S.-led forces pull out of Najaf.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad yesterday, coping with cars rigged with explosives, while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran.
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DULUIYA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces surrounded  the town of Duluiya north of Baghdad overnight, raiding homes  and arresting dozens of suspected guerrillas, the Iraqi  National Guards said on Tuesday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Basra on Wednesday in a bid to stem escalating violence in the southern city.
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British troops took control of the offices of Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra on Friday after clashing with militants loyal to the rebel cleric, witnesses said.
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Hundreds of people blocked Greeceâs main motorway today in protest at the lack of central crash barriers along a stretch where seven teenagers were killed in a bus crash yesterday.
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American forces blocked roads round Iraq&#39;s rebel-held city of Fallujah today after mounting air strikes overnight that local hospital sources said killed three people.
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Troops surrounding a radical mosque in Islamabad deny entry to politicians seeking to broker a negotiated deal.
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US and Iraqi forces sealed off roads leading to rebel strongholds south of Baghdad on Wednesday and anti-occupation rebels bombed two bridges, in what appears to be a move aimed at hindering troop&#39;s movement, as pro-government forces tried to retake
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British troops have raided an office used by supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr in the southern city of Basra, seizing a large quantity of weapons and explosives, a military spokesman says.
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while U.S. soldiers searched for weapons house-by-house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.
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British troops near the Iraqi city of Fallujah have launched a major operation to prevent Sunni insurgents from moving weapons and fighters around the area.
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British and Iraqi troops set out Wednesday on an ambitious mission to pacify the southern city of Basra, root out its corrupt police and help the residents rebuild.