Clashes across 'Sunni triangle'
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A suicide bomb targeting a US military convoy in Baiji kills 14 as violence erupts in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
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Clashes broke out between insurgents  and Iraqi security forces in northern Baghdad on Friday, a  police source said.
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A string of bombings has set off clashes between US troops and gunmen in an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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US Marines are preparing for a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where rebels are using violence and intimidation to extend their influence
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Lebanese troops clashed with gunmen in the northern city of Qalamoun early on Thursday, witnesses and security sources said.
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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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Sunni-Shi'ite tensions have a long history in Lebanon, but the latest upsurge is fueled by a battle for regional supremacy between powers thousands of miles from Beirut
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 -- Fighting intensified between the Pakistani army and insurgents in a volatile tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, a week after the collapse of a controversial cease-fire.
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Saudi security forces clashed with suspected militants in the southern Shifa district of the capital Riyadh on Sunday, security sources said.
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RAMADI, Iraq: Gunfire and explosions rattled the Sunni militant stronghold of Ramadi yesterday when US forces traded fire with insurgents after raids launched just ahead of the start of Islam&#39;s holy month, Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD, June 6 -- A Sunni insurgent group that waged a deadly street battle last week against the rival group al-Qaeda in Iraq in a Sunni neighborhood of west Baghdad announced Wednesday that the two forces had declared a cease-fire.
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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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Jihadists battling the Lebanese army in north Lebanon were either on their way to or from Iraq, Palestinian political sources believe, a sign that the shadow of Sunni militancy there has started to fall over Arab countries nearby.
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More than 30 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in a rash of suicide car bombs and mortar and rocket attacks in the Sunni Triangle on Saturday as US Marines
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Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the capital, leaving one man dead from gunshot wounds and 21 others injured at a time when tensions throughout Lebanon threaten the country's fragile sectarian and political balance.
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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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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.