U.S., British Troops Battle Shiite Militiamen in East
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BAGHDAD, June 18 -- In the early morning darkness of Monday, Shiite militiamen fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at oncoming U.S. and British troops, who responded by overwhelming the attackers with gunfire and airstrikes that left at least 20 people dead, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shia militants and US forces battled in the Sadr City slums yesterday, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in new violence that killed at least five Iraqis and wounded dozens of others.
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Iraqi fighters battled U.S. troops in a  Baghdad slum district Tuesday, raising the death toll to 22  Iraqis and one U.S. soldier and threatening to wreck a  cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Heavy fighting erupted between U.S.  troops and Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad's Sadr City slum on  Monday night after car bombs earlier killed at least 26 people  in two Iraqi cities.
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U.S. troops clashed with Shi'ite  militiamen in Najaf on Saturday, interrupting a day of relative  calm in the holy city with the sound of mortar,  rocket-propelled grenade and machinegun fire, witnesses said.
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers battled with insurgents overnight in Diwaniya, a predominantly Shiite city about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of Baghdad, killing 20 insurgents, according to a U.S. military spokesman.
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US troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad today, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses said, Five US troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as
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U.S. and British forces battled Mehdi Army fighters in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra after their leader, Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, made a rare public appearance and called on U.S. troops to get out of Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi and US special forces waged a gun battle here with alleged Shi'ite militia members early yesterday, leaving 14 Iraqis dead, nine injured, and several houses in ruins, witnesses and US military officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting broke out between  U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf,  where Iraq's interim defense minister said he expected a  "decisive battle" to take place on Wednesday.
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Iraqi fighters and U.S. troops clashed  in Baghdad's Sadr City slums Tuesday in firefights that killed  24 Iraqis and one US soldier and threatened to wreck a  cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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US helicopters blasted rooftops in a Shi'ite neighborhood before dawn yesterday as American troops battled gunmen on the ground, killing at least eight by the military's count.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite militants and U.S. forces battled throughout the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in a new wave of violence Saturday that killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others...
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Iraqi fighters battled U.S. troops in a Baghdad slum district Tuesday, raising the death toll to 22 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier and threatening to wreck a cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and injured at least 203 others, U.S...
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US troops battled Shiite militiamen loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed 36 people, including