Dozens dead as UK troops clash with Shia militias
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At least 36 people killed in fierce battles involving British troops and Shia militias during house to house searches in southern Iraq.
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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
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¡¡ LONDON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- One British soldier has been killedand another injured when British troops fought gunbattles with Iraqi militiamen in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.
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NAJAF/MOSUL, AUGUST 22: US helicopter gunships pounded Shiâite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.
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Clashes erupted between British troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Iraq's southern city of Basra, wounding one British soldier, sources on both sides said.
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At least 80 Shia rebels have been killed by Yemeni troops in fresh fighting in the north of the country, officials say.
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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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Two British soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack on a military convoy near Basra in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
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As many as 36 people were killed in a fierce battle early Monday between Shiite militiamen and British forces doing house-to-house searches south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
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MOSUL, Iraq US troops have clashed with insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque in northern Iraq. The US military says two attackers were killed and 34 civilians hurt.
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BAGHDAD, July 12 -- U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad clashed with Shiite militiamen on Thursday, leaving at least 11 Iraqis dead and an unknown number injured, including two children hit by shrapnel from a U.S. helicopter attack, according to American soldiers who took part in the mission.
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Three British soldiers who had recently been deployed to provide cover for US troops in Iraq have been killed in an attack, according to the government.
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As US and British influence in Southern Iraq wanes, rival Shi'ite militias are vying to assert their supremacy
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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BAGHDAD, May 26 -- U.S. and British troops battled Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra on Friday and Saturday, killing about a dozen fighters shortly after the influential Shiite cleric demanded a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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The death toll rose to 28 and more than 70 were wounded in heavy clashes between the US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq&#39;s northern town of Tall Afar.