U.S. strikes insurgents targeting helicopters
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A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, and the Iraqi government said 39 militants had been killed in volatile western Anbar province in recent fighting.
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A U.S. helicopter was shot down by insurgents near Baghdad on Monday but its two pilots escaped with only minor wounds, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft launched a new air  strike in the rebel-held city of Falluja on Saturday aimed at  killing supporters of a Jordanian militant who has led a  campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings in Iraq.
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Insurgents launched several strikes on Saturday, with the deadliest attack occurring outside a Marine base in western Iraq.
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The US military says it killed six militants who had fired a rocket on an attack helicopter in southern Afghanistan. Officials say after insurgents in Zabul province fired on the helicopter, a US gunship returned fire, killing the six rebels.
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U.S. forces moved into position for a decisive battle with the insurgents, pounding some of their last strongholds with airstrikes.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets struck targets in the insurgent bastion Fallujah on Friday, and U.S...
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U.S. attack helicopters killed four suspects and wounded three in operations south of Baghdad, the military said Sunday.
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U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 40. Elsewhere, insurgents detonated a car bomb and fired rockets, killing at least four National Guardsmen, in separate attacks targeting Iraq's beleaguered security forces.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched six raids against insurgents on Friday, including one that killed at least three Iraqis in house-to-house fighting and another in which American forces wounded a female Iraqi who the U.S. command said was being used as a "human shield."
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. forces have carried out air  strikes on Iraq's third largest city, targeting insurgents who  have attacked police stations and fought fierce street battles  this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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10 September 2004 -- United States military forces have been carrying out operations targeting insurgents in three Iraqi cities. The US military said yesterday that 57 insurgents had been killed in US attacks
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 4 -- Four American helicopters that crashed in Iraq in the past two weeks were shot down, a U.S. military spokesman said Sunday, prompting officials to reevaluate how troops move around in an increasingly hostile war zone.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq, Feb. 18 -- Helicopters hovered over the American military base here Sunday night, and the crackling of automatic gunfire echoed as U.S. forces attacked insurgents they believed were trying to plant an improvised explosive device, or IED, just outside the camp.
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American jets, helicopters and artillery pounded insurgents today in and around Falluja, which the military says is home to a terror network headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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BAGHDAD - A US helicopter opened fire yesterday on men seen planting roadside bombs in a Sunni stronghold north of Baghdad, then chased them into a nearby house and continued to shoot, killing 11 Iraqis, including five women and one child, the military said.
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Insurgents in Iraq are employing a variety of new tactics -- from an unprecedented string of helicopter shoot-downs to unusual chlorine bomb attacks and direct assaults on U.S. military bases -- that American commanders say are intended to create chaos and undermine the U.S. and Iraqi military push...