Mortar Attack, Kidnapping Heighten Iraq Tensions
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Description: A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad kills four guardsmen and wounds dozens of other Iraqis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting a charity worker who for decades championed ordinary Iraqis. In new violence, mortar attacks killed an American contractor and at least four Iraqi National Guard members and wounded 80 Iraqis, the U.S...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.    West of the capital, U.S...
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Iraqi officials say insurgents fired mortars at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in al-Mushahida,) north of Baghdad Tuesday. News reports say there were heavy casualties, but no figure was immediately available.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, as violence continued in Iraq.
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Iraqi insurgents yesterday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source told the Guardian the militants approached the villa
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad on Tuesday, seizing a suspected insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 alleged rebels, the U.S...
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.
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Insurgents and American forces clashed briefly Thursday near the Iraqi city. A large US assault is expected.
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said today, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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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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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Militants piled more pressure on the  United States' military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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The hostage crisis in Iraq has worsened with gunmen kidnapping two Italian women aid workers and two Iraqis from their offices in Baghdad.
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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U.S. Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the government over Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.