U.S. troops battle "minefield" of bombs in Baquba
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. troops hoping to directly confront al Qaeda militants in a major offensive in the Iraqi city of Baquba instead found themselves "swimming through a minefield", a senior officer said on Sunday.
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About 45 Iraqis have been killed during insurgent attacks on police stations in Baquba, a hospital morgue official has said. Three police stations were targeted by insurgents in the town 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A U.S. aircraft dropped a  half-ton(1,100 lb) bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on  Saturday after guerrillas attacked a U.S. patrol that was  trying to capture an insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman  said.
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Insurgents attacked three police stations in and near the town of Baquba on Tuesday, officials said, but there were conflicting casualty reports.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes, artillery and  mortars attacked areas of Falluja on Monday as diehard  insurgents held out to the last in the week-long battle and  heavy clashes broke out in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and  Baquba.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq, Feb. 18 -- Helicopters hovered over the American military base here Sunday night, and the crackling of automatic gunfire echoed as U.S. forces attacked insurgents they believed were trying to plant an improvised explosive device, or IED, just outside the camp.
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Monday's blast demonstrated the uneven vulnerability of U.S. forces, who are equipped with sophisticated weaponry and armor, and their Iraqi allies, who fight the same battles using inferior equipment.
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US warplanes, artillery and mortars attacked areas of Falluja on Monday as diehard insurgents held out to the last in the week-long battle and heavy clashes broke out in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Baquba.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Gunfire and air strikes rocked the restive city of Baquba as violence raged across Iraq, despite a major assault on Fallujah where US-led forces hunted out final pockets of resistance.
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More than 2,000 US and Iraqi troops are targeting insurgents in the northern section of Babil province, the US military announced Thursday.
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BAGHDAD - Thousands of US troops and Iraqi forces pursued a campaign of raids on suspected guerrilla bases in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on Wednesday, the US military said.
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attacks, such as a bomb that wounded some soldiers, could not be ruled out, a commander says. militants were losing their hideouts in the area and were on the run.
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Baghdad, Oct. 24 (NNN): Barely hours after two suicide car bombings near Ramadi and Samarra killed at least 22 Iraqi security officers, the bodies of 49 Iraqi army recruits were found near the town of Baquba
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American soldiers arrived here Saturday to help probe the latest in a rash of deadly bus bombings which claimed eight lives.
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U.S. forces expanded their push against insurgent strongholds outside Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqi units joined the offensive and took control of several districts in the key city of Baqouba, the military said.
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By Maher al-Thanoon  MOSUL, Iraq  - A U.S. aircraft dropped a 500-pound  bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Saturday after  guerrillas attacked a U.S. patrol that was trying to capture an  insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. soldiers on the offensive north of Baghdad are facing ferocious resistance from hundreds of al Qaeda militants who are willing to fight to the death, an American general said on Friday.