Falluja under siege: 15,000 begin the âmajor confrontationâ
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FALLUJA was a city under siege last night as Operation al Fajr, Arabic for dawn, began. The hope is that victory for some 15,000 US Marines, soldiers and Iraqi forces, who launched a full-scale attack on the
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces backed by Iraqi  troops surged into the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, taking a  grip on Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of intense  street-to-street combat.
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Fierce fighting killed eight American soldiers and wounded at least seven more yesterday as reports indicated that the long-awaited US assault on the insurgent-held city of Falluja had begun.
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: US and Iraqi forces have killed more than 1,000 insurgents in the battle to retake the Sunni city of Falluja, an Iraqi minister said today.
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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 Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the go-ahead for a US-led attack on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. Allawi announced a curfew in Falluja and Ramadi from 1800 local time
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The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that, while stiff at times, was much less than had been
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US Army and Marine units thrust into the core of Falluja today, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major assault to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.
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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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US warplanes pounded Falluja today, as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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Thousands of American marines and soldiers swarmed over a railroad embankment on the northern edge of Falluja on Monday night and early Tuesday
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US forces battled rebels in Falluja on Sunday after air raids aimed at foreign militants led by America&#39;s top enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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U.S. planes and artillery battered  Falluja on Monday and Marines moved toward forward positions on  the outskirts of the rebel-held city ready for the start of a  full-scale offensive.
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Thousands of US and Iraqi troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive in seven
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The move marked the start of the main assault on Falluja, expected to be the most significant battle since the fall of Baghdad.
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FALLUJA: US Army and Marine units pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Falluja on Tuesday, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major offensive to retake the city
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American forces stepped up their pressure on the insurgent-controlled city of Falluja on Friday, unleashing an aerial and artillery bombardment of