Iraq Security Sweep Captures 600 Insurgents, US Military Says
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US and Iraqi forces are holding about 600 suspected insurgents captured in security operations south of the capital, Baghdad, in the past five months, the US military said.
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The six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq. The group also claimed responsibility for seizing two French journalists last month.
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The U.S. military said coalition forces killed 20 insurgents suspected to be linked to al-Qaeda and destroyed multiple weapons caches Friday while conducting a security sweep in Iraq's Tharthar area.
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American troops have discovered at least 65 bodies in the past eight days in Mosul, the latest sign that insurgents are focusing on terrorizing vulnerable Iraqis.
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Afraid to stray from home, residents buried the dead in their gardens Saturday as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold, where the American military said 125 rebels were killed and 88 captured in two days of fierce fighting. The American commander declared the operation a successful first step in a major push to wrest key areas from insurgent control before January elections.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 -- American and Iraqi troops have killed 60 Sunni insurgents and captured nearly 200 during a week-long offensive in northern Iraq against al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters, U.S. military officials said Monday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 160 foreigners. Those held are:
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US Marines have cleared over 50 percent of Falluja&#39;s houses of weapons caches after mounting an offensive that crushed the Iraqi city&#39;s rebels, their top commander said Friday.
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The US military begins a big operation to secure police stations seized by insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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US Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers lead Iraqi men suspected of insurgent involvement from the scene of a joint raid by Iraqi National Guard and US forces near a mosque in central Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004.
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The nightlife is zero and most shops are shut, but U.S. and Iraqi forces said Wednesday that a three-day security sweep has cleaned up &#151; at least for now &#151; a mostly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad, notorious for kidnappings, murders and bombings.
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An aide of the head of al-Qaida in Iraq was arrested last week, and U.S. and Iraqi forces killed or captured more than 600 suspected members of the terrorist group in September, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces claimed to have killed more than 100 guerrillas in one of the largest military operations since the war began.
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More than 5,000 US, British and Iraqi troops swept through a lawless region south of Baghdad on Tuesday in a new move to crush insurgent unrest before national elections in January.
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Sixty suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters hit national police facilities in a coordinated attack in Samarra, sparking two hours of fighting that saw three people killed and more than a dozen insurgents captured, police said Friday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents in four days of raids across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says hundreds of insurgents have been killed in Fallujah as US and Iraqi troops sweep through the besieged Iraqi city.