Troops meet heaviest fighting
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US forces yesterday pummeled what commanders said were the last insurgent strongholds here, two narrow patches of territory on the southern
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Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers, including six Westerners, and 10 militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the US invasion, officials said yesterday.
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Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents.
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MANILA -- Philippine marines clashed with nearly 200 Al Qaeda-linked rebels yesterday, and officials said six government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the biggest battle in a monthlong US-backed offensive.
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The arrival of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Tuesday was marked by some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, highlighting the huge task facing the African Union force in Somalia.
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Somali Islamists and pro-government soldiers fought in heavy clashes for a second day on Saturday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of skirmishing many fear will erupt into all-out war.
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Troops complained that they were being sent into combat with insufficient protection and aging equipment.
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BAGHDAD -- A heavy gunfight broke out yesterday on a dangerous street in central Baghdad within blocks of the country's most fortified facilities, including the US Embassy and interim Iraqi government headquarters. Five more American troops were killed in the volatile Anbar province.
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Chadian troops fight a fierce battle with rebels in the east of the country with reports of heavy casualties.
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Insurgents in Afghanistan are fighting harder and there are more foreign extremists in the battlefield, the top international commander in the country told AFP.
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Black Watch troops come under one of the most sustained attacks since arriving in central Iraq.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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Somali Islamists and pro-government soldiers shelled each other in a second day of fighting on Saturday, witnesses said, a major escalation of violence many fear will erupt into all-out war.
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The ferocious battles of the last three days could open the way to wider conflicts. But there may be both more and less than meets the eye.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. infantrymen engaged in fierce battles with cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militants Monday and U.S...
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A heavily armored force of 3,000 US troops followed by 2,000 Iraqi soldiers, police, commandos and national guardsmen swept into Samarra yesterday to confront
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. US-led forces met heavy resistance in Falluja as they battled toward the heart of Iraq&#39;s most resistant city on Tuesday, officers said.