Falluja assault 'breaks' rebels
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A top US commander says the assault on Falluja has "broken the back of the insurgency" across Iraq.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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US marines today consolidated their hold on Falluja as insurgents struck back against US-led forces across Iraq. Rebels kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen and launched bomb and rocket attacks on British and Iraqi forces.
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US forces hit Iraq&#39;s rebel stronghold of Falluja with the fiercest air and ground bombardment in months, as insurgents struck back on Saturday with attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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Thousands of U.S. Marines and Iraqi  troops backed by tanks stormed into Falluja as night fell on  Monday, the start of a fierce ground assault to retake the  rebel stronghold.
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The U.S. military sealed off Falluja on  Friday and launched a night of air strikes on the rebel city  ahead of an assault seen as critical to the interim  government's attempt to pacify Iraq before January polls.
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US planes and artillery pounded Falluja on Monday and Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he had authorized a US-led offensive to rid the Sunni Muslim city of insurgents.
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US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
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US Lieutenant-General John Sattler declared on Thursday his forces had &quot;broken the back of the insurgency&quot; in Falluja, but US troops still faced dangers in the city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Air and artillery strikes shook  the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after U.S.  forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to  leave.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The offensive that crushed Iraq's  fiercest insurgents in Falluja in November turned U.S. Marines  into heroes and insurgents into celebrated martyrs.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces hunted  rebels in the devastated Iraqi city of Falluja on Sunday as  fighting subsided after a ferocious six-day-old assault.
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The US-led attack on insurgents in Fallujah, now in its second week, has ``broken the back of the insurgency,&#39;&#39; according to documents uncovered in house-to-house raids in the city, said Lt.
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US troops are fighting to crush resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja but rebels have hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb
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Iraqi rebels seized the centre of the city of Ramadi and attacked police stations elsewhere as US-led troops continued their Falluja assault.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces thrust at least  one km (half a mile) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and  were not far from the Iraqi city's heart, residents and an  Iraqi army officer said.