Zaytun troops dig in in Iraq
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Scorpions, snakes and mice frequented the desert camps where South Korean Zaytun soldiers bunked overnight, and the water and wide-ranging temperature changes caused stomach and other problems.
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US forces have exhumed a mass grave site in northwestern Iraq and uncovered the remains of scores of people. Many of the bodies found at the site near al-Hatra are believed to be the
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Pressure is rising to establish an Iraqi military capable of securing the country by January elections.
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MARK COLVIN: More than 2,000 Israeli troops, backed by 200 tanks, are digging in for a long and bloody operation in the Gaza Strip.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- On Nov. 3, U.S. soldiers raided a safe house of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Balad. Not a single combatant was captured, but inside the house they found something valuable: a diary and will written in neat Arabic script.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi police said Sunday that 49 bodies of soldiers from the new Iraqi army were found south of Baqouba. Gen. Walid al-Azzawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, said the bodies were
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IRAQI police have said that 49 bodies of soldiers from the new Iraqi army were found south of Baqouba. Gen. Walid al-Azzawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, said the bodies were discovered in an area 50km south of Baqouba, he said.
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Israeli troops wound up a four-day sweep of wanted men and munitions caches in the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday, and residents confined at home since the operation began outside to survey damage and resume their interrupted lives.
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SAMARRA, Iraq - Iraqi security forces patrolled the streets, and U.S. troops went door to door searching for weapons and fighters Sunday after the military claimed success in wresting control of Samarra from Sunni insurgents in fierce fighting...
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces yesterday raided a lollipop factory being used to make bombs, finding boxes of explosives and 2 tons of fertilizer in the basement of the facility in northern Iraq, an Iraqi officer said.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad yesterday, coping with cars rigged with explosives, while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran.
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US and Iraqi forces have pushed on with their second major offensive in a week, hunting insurgents in a triangle southwest of Baghdad that has become one of Iraq&#39;s most notorious hot spots.
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TUZ KHURMATO, Iraq  - Iraqis used heavy machines and shovels on Sunday to search for bodies after a huge truck bomb killed 150 people in a northern town and fresh attacks in and around Baghdad killed 31 others.
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BASRA CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE, Iraq The British soldiers spent more than an hour drilling the Iraqi army recruits in how to use key equipment needed to defend Basra from deadly mobs: body-size shields and menacing red batons.
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American and Iraqi troops yesterday fought to reclaim police stations from insurgents who seized control of broad swaths of this sprawling
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American troops swept through Mosul today, backed up by armored vehicles, jets and helicopter gunships, hunting for suspects.
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.