Clashes Sweep Iraqi Sunni Muslim Heartland
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Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in Baqouba - the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland even as U.S. and Iraqi forces move against the last remaining pockets of ...
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In west Baghdad&#39;s Omar al-Khattab mosque, a Sunni preacher assails his Shia compatriots for failing to come to the aid of the besieged city of Falluja.
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BAGHDAD, May 31 -- Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people dead and six injured, residents said Thursday.
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With car bombs, assassinations and raids on police stations, Iraqi insurgents killed at least 25 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across volatile Sunni areas yesterday.
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Gunfire echoed through this Sunni Muslim stronghold today after the start of what appeared to be the first major push to regain control of several cities in Iraq.
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Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing up to 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, police said, in a sharp escalation of sectarian violence.
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US and Iraqi forces battled their way into the heart of this Sunni stronghold Friday and moved house to house in search of militants in
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Iraqi troops backed by US forces have raided a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing at least two people. On Thursday, the Iraqi interim government warned that Islamic clerics who incite
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Sunni fighters in Baghdad fight militants linked to al-Qaeda in a sign of growing splits among insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, March 1 -- Iraqi security forces backed by Sunni tribesmen killed dozens of suspected Sunni insurgents over several hours of fighting Wednesday in a village in western Iraq, Iraqi police officials said Thursday.
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The town of Yusufiyah was among the most dangerous places in Iraq as Sunni fighters clashed regularly with coalition troops. But new tactics have changed the dynamics. Car bombings are down, the capture of insurgents is up. And Col. Michael Kershaw now greets his former enemies with kisses and shares meals.
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Gunmen killed dozens of people and burned mosques in a Sunni Arab enclave in Baghdad on Friday and clashes broke out in a Shi'ite district where car bombs killed 202 in the bloodiest bombing of the war on Thursday.
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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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A CAR bomb exploded outside an Iraqi police station in western Baghdad last night and US troops battled insurgents west of the capital as a new wave of violence across Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 29 people.
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Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops and  police commandos swept through a cluster of lawless towns  southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, in a new offensive against  Sunni Muslim insurgents.
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US troops are engaged in intense clashes on two fronts in Iraq, with Shi&#39;ite rebels in eastern Baghdad and Sunni insurgents west of the capital in Fallujah.
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Insurgents stormed two police stations Sunday in the strife-ridden city of Mosul, killing at least six Iraqi troops as attacks spread throughout Sunni Muslim areas following the U.S.-led assault on Fallujah.