U.S. troops kill 8 in raid, air strike on Iraq house
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces killed eight people   and destroyed a home with air strikes during a gunbattle before   dawn on Wednesday in a restive city north of Baghdad, the   military and neighbors said.
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Thousands of U.S. troops swept house-to-house through mostly Shiite areas virtually unopposed Wednesday in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown. But four U.S. soldiers were killed outside of the capital in an area not covered by the operation.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 9 -- 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. warplanes in Iraq struck the insurgent stronghold of Falluja today, killing at least eight people, as the U.S. military announced the deaths of four Marines.
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US forces traded fire with insurgents in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi following a series of raids, residents said Thursday, and at least eight people were reported killed.
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U.S. warplanes, tanks and artillery units attacked the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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U.S.-led troops mounted overnight raids on suspected al-Qaida compounds in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others, officials said Sunday.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 20 militants after coming under attack during a series of raids in southern Iraq overnight, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. air strikes destroyed a house   during a gun battle before dawn in a restive city north of   Baghdad which killed eight people, the military said.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Iraqi police and local officials said at least six children and eight women were among 32 people killed in a U.S. air strike on Friday which the U.S. military said killed 20 al Qaeda militants, including two women.
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The U.S. military said it killed four suspected terrorists and four civilians Wednesday in a raid in Baqouba, while Iraqi forces announced they had arrested a leader of a militant group believed responsible for numerous attacks on coalition forces.
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The U.S. military said at least eight soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day.
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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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A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad Friday, after a night of U.S. air strikes around the rebel-held city of Falluja that killed scores.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - U.S. forces hunting al Qaeda   insurgents raided the home of a senior Sunni Arab religious   leader in Iraq on Saturday, seizing him and four suspected   terrorists, the U.S. military said.
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ISHAQI, Iraq  - Iraqi and U.S. officials gave sharply differing accounts of an overnight raid and air strike on Friday in which up to 20 people were killed, with a town mayor accusing American troops of killing five children.
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U.S. troops raided a neighborhood northeast of Baghdad early Friday, killing five people &#151; including two women and a child &#151; after gunmen fired from the rooftops of buildings, the U.S. military said.