Baghdad battles spark fear of deadly upswing
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Insurgents fought U.S. soldiers in running street battles in the capital Saturday, assassinated three Iraqi officials and their driver and detonated a car bomb in Baghdad's Liberation Square, a grim cadence ...
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people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed. In a second dawn attack in the capital on Friday, guerrillas killed at
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The streets of Baghdad are filled with anxiety and war-weariness -- much of it hinging on whether U.S. troops should go. Some say the sooner they get out, the better. Others say the Americans are needed to prevent a sectarian bloodbath.
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The Iraq war could be heading to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Baghdad that already has turned dramatically bloodier for American soldiers and carries enormous stakes for the country's future.
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Yet it&#39;s clear chaos has escalated and violence is becoming more co-ordinated. Some experts are calling Iraq a potential &quot;super rogue state&quot; and the next Lebanon.
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BAGHDAD -- Police found more than two dozen bodies across the capital yesterday and the government said 73 people had died in fighting in the south, as violence surged despite signs that a US crackdown is curbing sectarian killings in Baghdad.
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As sectarian violence continues, the US military cautions that results of its Baghdad troop 'surge' will take time.
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US soldiers battled insurgents northeast of Baghdad on Monday in clashes that killed more than 50 people. Some guerrillas were said
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BAGHDAD : The Iraqi capital was steeped in blood as a fledgling truce in a Shiite rebel bastion was shattered by running battles that officials said had resulted in scores dead, while 13 US soldiers were killed in the space of 24 hours.
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents fought US troops in running street battles in the capital yesterday, assassinated three Iraqi officials and their driver, and detonated a car bomb in Baghdad's Liberation Square, a grim cadence that some Iraqis feared signaled the onset of a rebel offensive in the capital. In northern Iraq, the US military found the bodies of nine slain Iraqi ...
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Bombers launch attacks on US and Iraqi forces across Baghdad causing numerous deaths.
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As anxiety mounted over a feared wave of insurgent violence during the sacred Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins tomorrow, two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed
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Several people are killed in new clashes between Iraqi and US troops and insurgents in the capital, Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said yesterday, continuing a wave of sectarian violence that has defied American efforts to thwart the carnage.
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A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque &#151; one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims &#151; spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed