96 Killed in Major U.S. Assault in Iraq
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SAMARRA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with rebel fighters as they pushed toward the city center...
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in six separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday, days after it recorded its deadliest monthly toll in more than two years.
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Four U.S. Marines were killed in action  in Iraq on Friday in three attacks west of Baghdad, the  American military said on Saturday.
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U.S. troops raided Baghdad's largest Shiite slum early Thursday and arrested 16 people, U.S. and Iraqi officials and witnesses said. The American military said one person died.
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U.S. forces accompanied by the Iraqi  national guard launched a major offensive against insurgents in  the northern Iraqi city of Samarra Thursday, CNN reported.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, and hospital officials said at least 80 people were killed.
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The U.S. military said that at least 10 American service members and two Iraqi soldiers had been killed in the assault.
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Bombings and shootings killed more than 70 people in Iraq on Tuesday in a surge of bloodshed as U.S. forces prepare to take back Baghdad's streets from gunmen. The dead included 20 Iraqi troops, a U.S. soldier and a British soldier.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A guerrilla attack on a tented  dining hall at a U.S. base in Iraq killed 18 Americans and four  Iraqis in one of the deadliest strikes on Americans since last  year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Overnight raids by U.S. and Iraqi  forces on the rebel-held Iraqi city of Samarra killed at least  21 people, a hospital official said on Friday.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  on Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.
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More than 100 people die as US and Iraqi forces launch a major attack to regain control of the town of Samarra.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in an attack on their vehicle southwest of Baghdad as thousands of troops swept around Iraq's capital in a coordinated operation against militants, the military said on Thursday..
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The U.S. military said on Monday three of its soldiers were killed by insurgents in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Seventy-one U.S. troops were killed  in the offensive led by U.S. Marines to take control of the  Iraqi city Falluja from insurgents, the U.S. military said on  Wednesday, a toll 20 higher than previously reported.
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: US troops clashed Monday with Sunni insurgents west of the capital and gunmen assassinated Baghdad&#39;s deputy governor as fresh American soldiers arrived in the capital _ a move that will push US military strength in Iraq to its