Invasion of Iraqi city looms
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned Sunday that time was almost up for a peace agreement that could prevent a bloody, decisive battle in Fallujah, the western city
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The Iraqi government sent reinforcements to the countryâs third-largest city, Mosul, today, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that US officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in Fallujah - now said to be under 80% US control.
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As US and British influence in Southern Iraq wanes, rival Shi'ite militias are vying to assert their supremacy
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US marines prepared on Friday to storm the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab fighters.
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday.
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WASHINGTON - US and Iraqi troops are now racing to crush the fighters who have now moved into Iraq&#39;s third largest city of Mosul.
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The escalating violence throughout Iraq poses a challenge to the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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Iraqi forces are due to take control of a second province in the south of the country from UK and Italian troops.
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SAMARRA, Iraq -- Four months ago, insurgents operated with impunity in this ancient city along the Tigris, prompting US troops to storm it last October in a preview of the larger invasion of Fallujah in November.
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Insurgents have launched new attacks in several Iraqi cities, continuing their campaign of violence in the face of a US and Iraqi offensive to crush them.
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US and Iraqi forces have pressed on with aggressive raids against Sunni Muslim insurgents in towns southwest of Baghdad, racing against time to quell rebellion in time for an election in January.
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American forces began an offensive to seize back control of the Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday, claiming to have killed almost 100 insurgents in several hours of bombing raids and street fighting.
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Iraqi troop reinforcements will arrive in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday while tanks and helicopters are being sent for a big operation against al Qaeda militants, security officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interim prime minister on Wednesday threatened military action against the main insurgent stronghold of Fallujah if residents don't hand over Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.    Fallujah, in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, is believed to be a stronghold of al-Zarqawi's feared Tawhid and Jihad group, which has kidnapped and beheaded numerous foreigners and has carried out a number of bloody bombing attacks...
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US military embarks on risky strategy in Iraq in the hope that they will tackle al-Qaida operatives.
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In all likelihood, US troops and the nascent Iraqi military will storm the rebel city of Fallujah in the very near future. The so-called &quot;City of Mosques&quot; has been under sustained air assault
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British troops are preparing to depart Iraq's second city in the coming months, leaving behind an intra-Shi'ite power struggle