Fighting rages in northern Iraq
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US troops fight rebels in northern Iraq for a second day, while 500 suspected militants are seized elsewhere.
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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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US forces have killed at least 17 people in northern Iraq after attacking groups attempting to remove foreign troops and security forces loyal to Baghdad&#39;s Washington-imposed government.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 20 - Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including Baghdad, Ramadi
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Gunmen attacked two churches in the tense northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, in the latest violence directed against one of Iraq's several religious and ethnic groups, witnesses said.
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Up to 36 people have been killed in clashes between British forces and Shia militia in Iraq, local officials say.
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BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad as US troops battled insurgents west of the capital yesterday in a wave of violence that killed at least 27 people.
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces launched attacks Thursday to flush out insurgents in northern Iraq, the military and Iraqi officials said.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen attacked two churches in the  tense northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, in the latest  violence directed against one of Iraq's several religious and  ethnic groups, witnesses said.
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Sunni extremists attacked an isolated village northwest of Baghdad in a fierce battle with residents that reportedly left dozens dead, the deputy governor of Iraq's Diyala province said Tuesday.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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Real fighting and gun battles erupted Wednesday and mounted on Thursday between Palestinian militants groups and the Israeli army in the northern area of the Gaza Strip without seeing an end to it.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents plowed a car bomb into a bus carrying Kurdish militiamen in northern Iraq yesterday, while Sunni and Shi'ite militias fought a pitched battle south of Baghdad. The day's violence, which killed dozens, underscored the continuing rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as Iraq heads toward nationwide elections in January.
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Iraqi officials say insurgents attacked several police posts in an area north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 18 policemen and wounding several others.
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Military says fighting came after convoy of Afghan and US troops was attacked in northern Kandahar.
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Violence flared in Iraq on Saturday with a suicide car bomb attack in Kirkuk, a joint US-Iraqi offensive on Latifiya, and heavy clashes between US forces and insurgents in Tall Afar, leaving at least 42 dead.
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BAGHDAD -- US soldiers battled insurgents northeast of Baghdad yesterday in clashes that killed more than 50 people. Some guerrillas were said to be ''fighting to the death&quot; inside Fallujah, where American forces struggled to clear pockets of resistance.