U.S. forces extend Baghdad push to militia haven
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More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops met no resistance on Sunday when they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are meeting little resistance as they sweep through Baghdad, a U.S. officer said on Friday, a day after Iraq's president said a Shi'ite militia had ordered its leaders to leave the country.
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The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
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The US army has deployed an extra 5,000 US troops in Baghdad, stepping up security in the Iraqi capital ahead of the Jan. 30 elections, a senior US commander said Tuesday.
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A revised U.S. military plan envisions establishing security at the local level in Baghdad and elsewhere by next summer, it likely would take another year to get Iraqi forces ready to enforce any newfound stability, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces tightened  their grip on the rebel stronghold of Samarra on Saturday with  one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi forces are arriving in Baghdad for a new effort to get a grip on the violence plaguing their capital but probably not in sufficient strength, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.
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American, British and Iraqi troops are continuing their effort to root out insurgents south of Baghdad, in an operation aimed at clearing the way for elections to be held in January.
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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq has asked for more troops to clamp down on insurgent attacks and sectarian violence in the volatile province of Diyala, he said on Friday.
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The Iraqi interim government has decided to extend the curfew in Baghdad and its outskirts and revise the curfew&#39;s time, local newspaper Al Sabah reported on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country...
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The United States is likely to move more than 1,000 troops into Baghdad from elsewhere in Iraq, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday it was setting a trap to "eliminate" militants near Baghdad where 12 U.S. soldiers have died in the past two days.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces will expand their security operation into eastern Baghdad -- including Shi'ite militia strongholds -- the Defense Ministry said yesterday, a day after a barrage of coordinated attacks across those areas killed 64 people and wounded 286.
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U.S. soldiers trying to calm Baghdad say the sprawling Sadr City slum has once again become a haven for anti-American militants &#151; and the source of most of the gunfire and mortars directed at them.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces tightened  their grip on Samarra Saturday, pushing ahead with one of the  largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein to try to  regain control of the rebel stronghold.