US Troops Target Mahdi Militia
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US military forces killed 11 members of a Mahdi Army splinter group southeast of Baghdad early Thursday, American officials said, in the largest such operation against the powerful militia in months
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US Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers lead Iraqi men suspected of insurgent involvement from the scene of a joint raid by Iraqi National Guard and US forces near a mosque in central Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004.
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US forces in the Iraqi  city of Najaf carry out  an overnight assault on militia loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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US forces stepped up operations yesterday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring
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NAJAF, Iraq -- US infantrymen engaged in fierce battles with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militants yesterday, and US tanks moved closer to Imam Ali Shrine as the American military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to leave the holy site and end their uprising.
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US, British and Iraqi forces are focusing this time on a hotbed south of the capital. BAGHDAD -- About 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets
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U.S. warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the sprawling Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-U.S. Shiite cleric.
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The operation by U.S. and Iraqi troops may have been aimed at a cleric said to have incited insurgent violence.
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U.S. officials appear to differ over whether Moqtada Sadr's mahdi Army should be allowed to protect Shi'ite communities
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Video has become an important propaganda tool in the Mahdi Army fight against the US.
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The U.S. military pounded positions held by radical clerical Moqtada al-Sadr's lightly armed militiamen early Friday, unleashing one of its most terrifying aircraft in a bid to break their will to fight.
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U.S. military forces killed 11 members of a Mahdi Army splinter group southeast of Baghdad early Thursday, American officials said, in the largest such operation against the powerful militia in months.
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U.S. forces killed more than 50 Shi'ite militiamen Wednesday in a significant advance into a Baghdad suburb that is a powerbase for radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the military said.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a bloody two-month uprising in April that ended after a series of truces. Fighting between US forces and al-Sadr&#39;s Mahdi Army militia erupted again on Aug. 5 in Najaf.
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Mahdi Army emerging as well-organized parallel government
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BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish Army helicopters, swept through Shi'ite militia strongholds south of Baghdad yesterday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two.