Battles rage across Mosul
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MOSUL, Iraq -- US and Iraqi troops stormed insurgent-held police stations and neighborhoods in this northern city Tuesday, retaking a number of sites seized last week by gunmen who rose up in support of militants in Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq was on the brink of an all-out assault on rebel-held Fallujah yesterday as deadly clashes erupted between US troops and insurgents in the neighbouring city of Ramadi.
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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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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.
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Militants bombed two churches Tuesday in Mosul, wounding three people in a coordinated attack apparently aimed at stirring trouble between religious groups in this ethnically diverse northern city.
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The US military says it has attacked  suspected rebel targets in Mosul after an upsurge in violence in the northern Iraqi city.
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MOSUL, Iraq US troops have clashed with insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque in northern Iraq. The US military says two attackers were killed and 34 civilians hurt.
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Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf&#39;s Old City yesterday in a fierce battle between US forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on for the handover of the shrine that the fighters have used for their stronghold.
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INSURGENTS attacked two more police stations in Mosul yesterday after American and Iraqi reinforcements poured into the northern city to put down a four-day-old uprising.
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Insurgents attacked the governor&#39;s office in Mosul yesterday, even as the Iraqi government declared the rebel uprising in the northern city had failed.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- American and Iraqi troops yesterday fought to reclaim police stations from insurgents who seized control of broad swaths of this sprawling northern city in what a top Kurdish official said was a well-organized Ba'athist resurgence to distract US and Iraqi forces from Fallujah.
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Description: US and Iraqi forces report more progress on the sixth day of their joint offensive in Fallujah. But insurgents have occupied large areas of Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, Mosul, the scene of more violence.
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The second major attack on American forces this month underscored the grim situation in a militant stronghold in Mosul.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 3 - Heavily armed insurgents launched attacks here and in the northern city of Mosul on Friday morning, striking at police stations, military bases and a Shiite mosque.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 11  - The US military said it attacked suspected rebel targets in Mosul with air and ground fire on Thursday after an upsurge in violence as gunmen were seen flocking into Iraq&#39;s main northern city.
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Insurgents tried to ram a truck with half a ton of explosives into a U.S. military post in the northern city of Mosul then ambushed reinforcements in a huge gunbattle in which 25 rebels and one American soldier were killed, the military said Thursday. Warplanes fired missiles and strafed gunmen during the fight.
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US forces launched air strikes against targets in Iraq&#39;s third largest city of Mosul after fierce street battles for the second day, the US military and witnesses said on Friday.