Fighting sweeps Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland as US offensive in ...
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US and Iraqi forces fought deadly battles with insurgents across central and northern Iraq on Monday â-he latest in a wave of clashes that has swept the country&#39;s Sunni Muslim
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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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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Insurgents unleashed attacks yesterday that killed at least 19 Iraqis in Samarra and wounded 20 US troops near Ramadi, in an apparent attempt to spread fighting across the Sunni Muslim heartland ahead of a US assault on their Fallujah stronghold that appeared imminent.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraqi national guardsmen raided a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, sparking bloody clashes, an AFP correspondent reported, while in the northern city of Mosul US-backed Iraqi commandos were poised to storm rebel strongholds.
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including
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Description: The US-led invasion of Fallujah has sparked a major upsurge in fighting elsewhere in Iraq. Insurgents seized control of major parts of the northern city of Mosul, prompting a counterattack by the US NPR&#39;s Philip Reeves reports.
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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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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed into the narrowest of its closely packed streets to continue fighting in small bands.
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American and Iraqi forces battled their way into the center of this insurgent-ridden city on Friday, claiming that they had taken control of more than
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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In Iraq, US and Iraqi forces have stepped up their military operations in areas of the country under the control of Sunni rebels. Ahead of elections set for January, Iraqi and coalition forces are attempting
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in a string of major cities, from Ramadi to Falluja to Baghdad.
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Violence flared in Iraq&#39;s restless Sunni Triangle yesterday when insurgents stormed two police stations in a brazen attempt to intimidate Sunni voters a day after Osama bin Laden
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, Al Qaeda fighters, and Shi'ite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said yesterday.
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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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Insurgents launched deadly attacks throughout Iraq&#39;s Sunni Triangle region Tuesday, targeting the nation&#39;s fledgling security forces with ambushes and car bombs that killed at least 25 people and wounded 40 in four cities.
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TONY JONES: Well, there&#39;s been more violence in northern Iraq and the Sunni triangle, even as US troops continue their clean-up operations in Fallujah.