Fierce clashes between US forces and Shi&#39;ite terrorists
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US forces battled insurgents loyal to Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193 people, US and Iraqi authorities said.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops battled Iraqi police suspected of links to Iranian-backed Shi'ite militiamen, killing six in a rare firefight between American soldiers and their Iraqi partners. Yesterday's clash underscored the deep infiltration of militants in the country's security forces.
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US tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf today as fierce clashes with Shiite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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BAGHDAD: US troops killed 32 guerrillas in fierce clashes in Mosul and 32 people were killed, including six police, when Iraqi security forces were lured into searching a home of suspected foreign fighters in Baghdad that was rigged with explosives
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Fierce clashes erupted between US forces and Iraqi fighters in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing at least two Iraqi civilians, witnesses and medics said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting broke out between US troops and Shi&#39;ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf, where Iraq&#39;s interim defense minister said he expected a &quot;decisive battle&quot; to take place on Wednesday.
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Fierce clashes continued Thursday between insurgents and US-Iraqi troops in the flashpoint city of Ramadi, witnesses said. Fightings broke out in the morning in Malaab Street
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital.
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NAJAF: A fierce gunbattle erupted between US troops and radical Shi&#39;ite militants near Najaf&#39;s holy shrine this morning, a Reuters witness said.
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A string of bombings has set off clashes between US troops and gunmen in an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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Six months after Sadr City erupted in rebellion, US forces are launching a renewed campaign to wrest control of the vast Baghdad neighborhood from radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s forces.
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BAGHDAD -- A string of attacks by Shi&#39;a rebels in Baghdad and Sunni guerrillas in Fallujah has driven the US military&#39;s death toll to 17 since Sunday and spawned clashes yesterday that raged with an intensity not seen since the two-front rebellion erupted
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12 September 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The clashes broke out on Haifa Street in central Baghdad as the US military pressed on with new offensives aimed at retaking control of insurgent-held areas.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops began major military operations today against Al Qaeda forces near Baghdad, while in the south, U.S. troops battled Shiite militants.
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Baghdad, Sept. 8 (NNN): Bloody clashes on Tuesday between US forces and Shia militiamen left more than 46 persons, including six US soldiers, dead across Iraq during the past 24 hours, officials said here on Wednesday.
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Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf&#39;s Old City on Sunday in a fierce battle between US forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, officials said.