U.S. Launches Assault on Rebel-Held Iraqi Town
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U.S. forces in Iraq on Friday launched a  big offensive in the rebel stronghold of Samarra and said they  had secured key government and police buildings.
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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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U.S. forces launched air strikes on the rebel-held city of Falluja Monday, targeting what they said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US and Iraqi forces begin a major operation against rebels in Iraq's northern city of Samarra, reports say.
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US forces launched airstrikes against the Iraqi provincial capital and Sunni stronghold of Baquba Monday, the Washington Post reported.
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday.
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The U.S. military launched an offensive  on Thursday to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town  of Tal Afar, and doctors said 17 people were killed and 51  wounded in heavy fighting.
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US troops backed by thunderous air and artillery barrages launched a ground offensive Monday to seize key rebel strongholds inside Fallujah, the city that became Iraq&#39;s major sanctuary for Islamic extremists who fought marines
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More than 4,000 American and Iraqi soldiers mounted a military assault on the insurgent-held city of Samarra.
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US military officials in Iraq say American and Iraqi forces have launched operations against insurgents in the northern city of Mosul.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad on Tuesday, seizing a suspected insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 alleged rebels, the U.S...
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U.S. troops stormed Tuesday into an insurgent-controlled area of a turbulent province where police reported that gunmen &#151; some wearing military clothing &#151; had massacred 29 Shiite villagers the night before.
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U.S.-led forces launched operations in  three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two  dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing  targets in Falluja for the third straight day.
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US-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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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched six raids against insurgents on Friday, including one that killed at least three Iraqis in house-to-house fighting and another in which American forces wounded a female Iraqi who the U.S. command said was being used as a "human shield."
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy that has seen insurgents  attacking across Iraq's third largest city.
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Some 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launch an operation in a rebel stronghold south of Baghdad, the US military says.