U.S. Forces Storm Iraqi Town, Say 109 Rebels Killed
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-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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About 100 insurgents attacked and briefly occupied a government building in a town north of the capital early Saturday before U.S. troops and government forces drove them out, officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early Friday, securing government and police buildings in the city, the U.S. command said.
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The U.S.-Iraqi offensive in the city about 65 miles north of Baghdad largely overwhelms rebel forces during a night and day of occasionally intense fighting.
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Fighting raged between rebels controlling the western Iraq town of Ramadi and U.S. Marines Wednesday after two Iraqis were killed in clashes following a suicide car bomb attack, witnesses said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed into  Samarra on Friday to wrest control of the northern town back  from insurgents, and the American military said 80 militants  were killed in hours of fierce street fighting and air strikes.
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U.S. forces entered Samarra to re-assert Iraqi government authority, bombed a building in Falluja, and reportedly clashed with rebels in a town near the Syrian border.
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Over 100 militants and civilians have been killed after US forces stormed the Iraqi town of Samarra. The town&#39;s hospital said dozens of bodies were brought in, including at least 11 women, five children and seven elderly men.
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Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops and  police commandos swept through a cluster of lawless towns  southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, in a new offensive against  Sunni Muslim insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets pounded the rebel stronghold of Fallujah on Thursday, and American and Iraqi forces entered the central city of Samarra for the first time in months to try to reseat the city council and regain control...
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U.S. forces traded fire with insurgents in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi following a series of raids, residents said Thursday, and at least eight people were reported killed.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops fought to crush  resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels  hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that  killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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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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U.S. artillery pummeled Falluja on Wednesday and troops hunted guerrillas still fighting days after Washington said its offensive had destroyed rebel control of the Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. jets bombed Falluja Sunday  and troops fought rebels accused of shielding foreign fighters  led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's top foe in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD US forces battled insurgents loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 34 people, including an American soldier, and wounded almost 200, US and Iraqi authorities
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U.S. and Iraqi troops surged into the rebel-controlled city of Samarra Friday, killing more than 90 insurgents in house-to-house combat supported by airstrikes and armor.