Iraq rebels launch raids on eve of crucial Falluja battle
687891
Iraqi insurgents took the war to the US-led coalition yesterday, launching a devastating series of attacks across the centre of the country, even as American forces massed for an assault on the rebel-held city of Falluja.
141831
US and Iraqi troops move in on Falluja ahead of a planned major offensive to take the city from insurgents.
502734
US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
283951
Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as US and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
418849
Iraqi rebels seized the centre of the city of Ramadi and attacked police stations elsewhere as US-led troops continued their Falluja assault.
763233
US troops have unleashed a fierce barrage of shelling on Iraq&#39;s rebel-held town of Falluja, where US troops are poised for a major offensive, a Reuters witness says.
94083
FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched air strikes  on the rebel-held city of Falluja Monday, targeting what they  said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in Iraq,  Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
228089
US warplanes struck a suspected insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and US tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad, stepping up military operations against guerrillas.
343511
American troops and Iraqi special forces launched a major operation in Falluja late Thursday aimed at disrupting future attacks by insurgents who control the volatile city, the US military said.
655005
US warplanes pounded Falluja early today as ground forces battled insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
174536
FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched fierce  attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Falluja on Thursday,  witnesses said.
493139
US and Iraqi troops preparing for an expected assault on Falluja have struck more targets in the insurgent-held Sunni Triangle city early Friday.
152761
U.S. warplanes struck a suspected  insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S.  tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad,  stepping up military operations against guerrillas.
442512
U.S. troops fought to crush resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
283469
U.S. troops urged civilians to flee  Falluja on Friday and launched air strikes on the rebel city  ahead of an assault seen as critical to attempts to pacify Iraq  before January elections.
387910
FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched fierce  strikes on suspected rebel targets in the western city of  Falluja on Saturday night, a Reuters witness said.
157678
U.S. warplanes struck a suspected insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S. tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad, stepping up military operations against guerrillas.