Baghdad clash kills 18, intelligence outlook grim
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U.S. forces opened fire from helicopters during an overnight clash with Shi'ite militants in western Baghdad, killing 18 people, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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Violence in Iraq claimed 19 lives Wednesday, as 23 bodies were found in Baghdad, all believed to be to victims of sectarian death squads.
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BAGHDAD -- US soldiers in eastern Baghdad clashed with Shi'ite militiamen over several hours yesterday, leaving at least 11 Iraqis dead and an unknown number injured, including two children hurt by shrapnel sprayed by a US military attack helicopter, according to American soldiers who took part in the mission.
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Iraqi police and a community leader said a bomb blast near a soccer field in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed 18 people, mostly children, but the U.S. military said it was unaware of such an attack.
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Insurgents killed 18 Iraqi police and five Iraqi troops in attacks in three Iraq cities Tuesday, nearly a month shy of the nation&#39;s scheduled elections.
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At least 29 people were killed and 18 wounded in an explosion in Baghdad after insurgents lured police to a house with an anonymous tip about a rebel hideout, then set off explosives.
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A brazen attack in the heart of Baghdad with rebels executing election workers in cold blood was a chilling reminder of the deteriorating security situation in the capital ahead of parliamentary elections on January 30.
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U.S. forces opened fire from helicopters during an overnight clash with Shi'ite militants in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people, police said on Friday.
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An explosion killed up to 17 people in  Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January  elections.
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Two American soldiers were killed Saturday in Baghdad, seven Shiite construction workers were gunned down and five Sunni civilians were blown up, deepening the capital's security crisis. Shiite politicians called on the prime minister to cancel his visit to Washington to protest Israel's attacks in Lebanon.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate paints a grim view of the violence and political situation facing the United States in Iraq
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Baghdad was engulfed in violence yesterday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a car bomb attack and US-led offensives on Shiite and Sunni rebel pockets in the capital.
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Bombers and gunmen killed eight people in a tense city northeast of Baghdad on Monday as Iraqi security forces prepared to further tighten security ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, when violence traditionally spikes across Iraq.
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Insurgents foiled heightened security in Baghdad and killed more than two dozen people Saturday after an al-Qaida threat to avenge the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, dealing a blow to the Iraqi government&#039;s pledge to bring peace to the capital.
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Bomb and gun attacks targeting Iraqi police killed at least 59 people Tuesday, marking the deadliest day in Baghdad in six months and continuing an increase of violence across the northern part of the country.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- Insurgents fought U.S. troops in running street battles in the capital Saturday, assassinated three Iraqi officials and their driver and detonated a car bomb in Baghdad's Liberation Square, a grim cadence that some Iraqis feared signaled the onset of a rebel offensive in the capital. In northern Iraq, the U.S. military discovered the bodies of nine slain Iraqi soldiers.
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A suicide car bomber killed 18 people  near a hospital south of Baghdad on Saturday amid a surge of  violence by Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim insurgents ahead of  Ashura, the holiest festival on the Shi'ite religious calendar.