US warplanes slam Mehdi Army positions
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US warplanes pounded Mehdi Army positions in Najaf early Monday as fighting continued between US-Iraqi forces and militiamen loyal to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes have pounded areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militia are holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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BAGHDAD -- American warplanes struck militant positions in two insurgent-controlled cities yesterday and US and Iraqi troops quietly took control of a third in a sweeping crackdown following a spike in attacks against US forces.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes Thursday pounded  areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi'ite militia were  holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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BAGHDAD - US jets pounded suspected militant positions in a Baghdad slum Monday as two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy.
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US warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-US Shiite cleric.
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US warplanes bombed Najaf&#39;s Old City and gunfire rattled on Sunday amid fears a plan to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could collapse.
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US planes pounded Najaf&#39;s cemetery and historic centre near the Imam Ali shrine on Monday, dimming hopes of a peaceful end to a near three-week stand-off between US-led Iraqi troops and Shiite militia.
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warplanes criss-crossed the skies. Troops took up positions in empty buildings on the Sunni Muslim city&#39;s southern perimeter. A civilian driver was shot dead near a US checkpoint on the highway, witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq : US forces unleashed a fresh wave of raids on positions held by firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia in Najaf, where hopes of seeing a peaceful resolution to the bloody siege of a revered Shiite shrine were fast fading.
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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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The US military in Iraq says American warplanes carried out air strikes in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah overnight, destroying safe houses and weapons storage facilities used by militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US warplanes have struck a suspected insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja and US tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad, stepping up military operations against guerrillas.
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With US Marines poised to attack Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, American warplanes pounded targets in the rebel-held city west of Baghdad today, and Iraqi security forces came under attack
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 40...
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U.S. warplanes continued pounding targets in Fallujah today, in an attempt to disrupt what the military said were preparations for terrorist attacks coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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US warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the sprawling Baghdad slum Thursday in a