British Troops Raid Rebel Stronghold South of Baghdad
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Hundreds of British troops raided houses of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists Thursday in the latest phase of a U.S.-led operation to crack down on guerrilla strongholds in the lawless territory south of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 5,000 American, British, and Iraqi troops swept through a lawless region south of Baghdad yesterday in a new move to crush insurgent unrest before national elections in January, even as assassins killed a Sunni Muslim cleric opposed to the vote.
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US and Iraqi troops have launched a major offensive in the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad, retaking key government and police buildings.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers raided Baghdad's Sadr City slum on Wednesday, searching for five kidnapped Britons who Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said had probably been seized by a Shi'ite Muslim militia.
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More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.
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LONDON -- Responding to a US request, Britain agreed yesterday to transfer 850 troops from relatively calm southern Iraq into a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency near Baghdad.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control
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British troops redeployed in central Iraq to support US forces have come under fresh attacks at their base south of Baghdad, the BBC reported Wednesday.
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British troops have begun arriving at their new base south of Baghdad, where they are filling in for US forces being sent to fight insurgents, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
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London - A total of 750 British troops could be deployed in previously American-patrolled hotspots just south of Baghdad as their American counterparts are sent to take part in a major offensive in rebel-held Fallujah, The Times reported on Monday.
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U.S., British and Iraqi troops began a new offensive sweep across a region south of Baghdad known as the triangle of death.
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British troops and armor rolled north  from Basra on Wednesday to take over a deadly area near Baghdad  and free up U.S. troops for a widely expected attack on the  Iraqi rebel-held city of Falluja.
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Thousands of US-led troops target lawless areas south of Baghdad known as Iraq's "triangle of death".
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US and Iraqi forces sealed off roads leading to rebel strongholds south of Baghdad on Wednesday and anti-occupation rebels bombed two bridges, in what appears to be a move aimed at hindering troop&#39;s movement, as pro-government forces tried to retake
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad yesterday, coping with cars rigged with explosives, while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran.
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Hundreds of British troops raided houses of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists Thursday in the latest phase of a US-led operation to crack down on guerrilla strongholds in the lawless territory south of Baghdad.
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A battle group of British troops began to roll out of southern Iraq Wednesday on a US-requested mission to deadlier areas near Baghdad in a major political gamble for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.