US Forces Prepare to Retake City in N. Iraq
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The commanding general of US forces fighting in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar said Saturday that he believed the insurgency would be defeated within a week, allowing
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US forces are meeting fierce resistance during their offensive north of the Iraqi capital, a US general says.
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U.S. commanders said the city will now be turned over to the Iraqi police and military forces one neighborhood at a time.
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US and Iraqi troops have launched a major offensive in the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad, retaking key government and police buildings.
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US forces prepare to move on rebel city; elsewhere over the weekend, insurgents killed scores of Iraqi troops.
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British troops and armour have rolled north from Basra to take over a deadly area near Baghdad and free up US troops for a widely expected attack on the Iraqi rebel-held city of Falluja.
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Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Black Watch prepare to move north into a US sector of central Iraq.
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Baghdad, Oct. 1 (NNN): At least 100 people, including 80 insurgents were killed and hundreds others injured as the US military launched a major offensive to re-take the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Baghdad.
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American troops and Iraqi security forces launched a major operation to regain control of Mosul yesterday, after a week of lawlessness which saw large parts of Iraq&#39;s third city fall under the control of militants determined to open a new front in the
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US Marines are preparing for a &quot;decisive&quot; assault on Fallujah and Ramadi, towns held by insurgents and hostage-takers, a commander says.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he is confident the interim Iraqi government will find a way to retake cities now in the hands of insurgents...
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offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities has begun on the eve of the US presidential election. company&#39;s office in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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With the insurgency still a threat to Iraq&#39;s planned elections, the US force is about to expand to its highest level of the war even higher than the initial invading force in March 2003.
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A US Marine of the 1st Division gestures during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swathe
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Marines just outside the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah were making final preparations Friday for a large-scale offensive that US commanders
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US and Iraqi troops entered Mosul in force yesterday to retake streets and police stations seized by rebels in the northern city last week, while a leading Iraqi insurgent
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Two battalions totaling 1,500 82nd Airborne Division troops will begin flying to Iraq from Fort Bragg, NC, on Friday, triggering a major build-up of US forces to bolster security for January national elections in the country