Iraq's Falluja Refugees Start Going Home Thursday
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Some 2,000 Iraqis who fled a U.S.-led  offensive on Falluja more than a month ago will return to the  Sunni Muslim city Thursday although sporadic fighting persists  in some areas, Iraqi ministers said Wednesday.
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A man argues with a US and Iraqi soldiers as he waits to be allowed to enter Fallujah on the city limits Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004 as first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled last month&#39;s US lead offensive started returning.
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq arrived home yesterday to a tearful welcome from their families, ending a four-month drama that had gripped this country, which had opposed the U.S.-led war ...
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Immigration aid workers here expect that as many as half of the nearly 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be brought into the United States by the end of September will settle in the area.
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A makeshift food distribution site offers a hint at what life is like for Fallujans who fled before the invasion.
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Violence erupts in the Iraqi city of Falluja as residents return for the first time since the US offensive there.
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More than 900 residents of Fallujah returned to homes they fled before last month&#39;s military operation in the Iraqi city, on the first day of a program overseen by US and Iraqi forces, the US military said.
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Six French aid workers jailed in Chad for child trafficking will fly home on Friday, a Chadian official says.
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Millions of Iraqis have fled their devastated homeland. For members of the middle class, refugee-friendly Sweden is the destination of choice
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Iraqis who fled last month&#39;s US-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday to check if homes they left behind were still standing, but most said they would not stay amid continued fighting.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as US and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
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The first displaced residents were briefly allowed back into Falluja, even as U.S. marines and warplanes battled insurgents.
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Insurgent leaders in Falluja probably fled before the American-led offensive and may be coordinating attacks in Iraq.
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Two French reporters, freed from four months of captivity in Iraq, arrived home tonight as the government said it negotiated an end to their ordeal without paying a ransom.
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Some Iraqi refugees living in Syria dismissed on Wednesday a Bush administration plan to allow some 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the U.S., saying they preferred to stay closer to home and planned to return to Iraq.
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When Fallujans begin trickling back to their devastated city, they will be routed through sandbagged checkpoints where U.S. and Iraqi troops will take their fingerprints, issue them ID badges and scan their irises &#151; part of an elaborate plan to keep insurgents out of the former militant stronghold.