'Three quarters' of Falluja taken
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US and Iraqi forces say they have control of three-quarters of the city of Falluja after a two-battle insurgents.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces have seized control of up to 70 percent of this rebel stronghold, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday, as American and Iraqi troops battled insurgents along the city's main street and confronted isolated pockets of gunmen who had slipped back behind US lines.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that he was getting closer to authorizing major military action against insurgents in the restive city of Falluja, in Anbar province west of Baghdad.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Air and artillery strikes shook  the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after U.S.  forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to  leave.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces secured  almost three quarters of Falluja on Wednesday, but Islamist  militants struck back, kidnapping three relatives of the prime  minister and taking 20 Iraqi soldiers hostage.
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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
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US forces have found nearly 20 houses in the Iraqi city of Falluja where they believe people were tortured and where foreign hostages may have been killed, officers say.
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Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and  Iraqi troops were involved in the assault on Monday on the  rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja, where about 3,000 insurgents  are holed up, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
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US marines in Falluja have come under sustained attack from several different directions in the headquarters they have set up in the Iraqi city.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led troops battled through  "half of Falluja" on Wednesday, but Muslim militant kidnappers  threatened to behead three relatives of Iraq's interim prime  minister if he did not call off the offensive.
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US forces thrust at least one km (0.6 miles) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not far from the Iraqi city&#39;s heart, residents said.
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Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city. On Tuesday night
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces pushed at least one  km (0.6 miles) into Falluja on Tuesday and were not far from  the center of the rebel-held Iraqi city, residents said.
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US and Iraqi troops have seized much of the troubled city of Falluja from insurgents, the US military has said. Send us your comments.
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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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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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The American offensive in Falluja will test the administration&#39;s belief that the Iraqi insurgency can be subdued in time for the country&#39;s elections in