US forces work to secure Sadr City
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Six months after Sadr City erupted in rebellion, US forces are launching a renewed campaign to wrest control of the vast Baghdad neighborhood from radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s forces.
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The Bush administration is supporting the Iraqi government as it uses diplomacy and the threat of force to oust radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia from a holy shrine in Najaf. At the same time, it is trying to steer clear of becoming the target of an angry Muslim world.
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US warplanes struck Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district overnight to neutralize roadside bombs that regularly explode as American patrols drive through the area, the military said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, May 30 -- Scores of U.S. troops descended on the vast Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad late Tuesday and early Wednesday, residents there said, searching several houses in what appeared to be an intense hunt for a British financial consultant and four British bodyguards abducted...
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If U.S. and Iraqi troops launch a major assault on radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militants, they will have to pass through sniper-infested streets to root them out of a mosque they can't afford to harm.
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SAMARRA, Iraq - US and Iraqi forces tightened their grip on Samarra on Saturday, pressing on with one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein to try to regain control of the rebel stronghold.
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BAGHDAD, 8 September 2004 - Fierce fighting between followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and US forces in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City yesterday killed at least 37 people, including two American soldiers, and injured over 200.
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US military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive
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BAGHDAD US forces battled insurgents loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 34 people, including an American soldier, and wounded almost 200, US and Iraqi authorities
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Followers of Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric, began handing their weapons into police stations in the Iraqi capital yesterday and US forces suspended operations against their strongholds in Sadr City.
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US forces has unleashed a fresh wave of attacks on positions held by forces loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf. Hopes of a peaceful resolution to the bloody siege of a revered Shiite shrine are fast
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U.S. soldiers trying to calm Baghdad say the sprawling Sadr City slum has once again become a haven for anti-American militants &#151; and the source of most of the gunfire and mortars directed at them.
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US forces in the Iraqi  city of Najaf carry out  an overnight assault on militia loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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US aircrafts Sunday pounded positions held by militants loyal to Iraq&#39;s radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the besieged sacred city of Najaf, Xinhua reports.
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U.S. infantrymen engaged in fierce battles with cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militants Monday and U.S. tanks moved closer to the revered Imam Ali Shrine as the American military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to leave the holy site and end their uprising.
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The early morning raids appeared to be the largest military operation in Sadr City since the start of the new American-led crackdown in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, Iraq : US forces unleashed a fresh wave of raids on positions held by firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia in Najaf, where hopes of seeing a peaceful resolution to the bloody siege of a revered Shiite shrine were fast fading.