U.S. Army Kills 25 Rebels in Fierce Iraq Fight
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. troops backed by warplanes  killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on  Wednesday after facing a fierce coordinated assault by two  suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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U.S. troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents as they attacked an American outpost in northern Iraq with a car bomb and explosives, the military said Thursday.
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U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses said, while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as insurgents stepped up attacks ahead of next month's elections.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group al-Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.
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U.S. forces poised to assault Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra, another city in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
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U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a volatile western province as insurgents stepped up attacks ahead of next month's elections.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces hit Iraq's rebel  stronghold of Falluja with the fiercest air and ground  bombardment in months, as insurgents struck back on Saturday  with attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra.
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U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. troops backed by warplanes  killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul  Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two  suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- American troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents as they attacked a US outpost in Mosul with a car bomb and explosives, the military said Thursday.
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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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U.S.-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Falluja for the third straight day.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops fought to crush  resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels  hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that  killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led troops battling to take  control of Falluja ran into pockets of fierce resistance Friday  and the United States said it would not stop until all  insurgents in the Iraqi city had been wiped out.
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DIWANIYA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 30 militants early on Sunday in fierce fighting in the flashpoint southern Shi'ite city of Diwaniya, the U.S. military said.
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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, and hospital officials said at least 21 people were killed and 35 wounded...
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Rebels ambushed and killed 49  unarmed Iraqi soldiers and, in a separate attack Sunday, killed  a U.S. diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport.