US planes pound militant hideouts near Najaf shrine
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NAJAF/MOSUL, AUGUST 22: US helicopter gunships pounded Shiâite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A U.S. military plane unleashed  rapid cannon fire on positions held by Shi'ite rebels in the  sacred city of Najaf early on Sunday, a Reuters witness said.
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NAJAF: Missiles damaged the outer wall of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf as US planes pounded militia positions in the city on Monday.
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US tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf today as fierce clashes with Shiite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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A US warplane  shells suspected rebel positions in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf as peace talks stall.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. tanks rumbled to within 800  meters (yards) of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on  Sunday as fierce clashes with Shi'ite rebels in a nearby town  killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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US aircraft launched a fresh assault on Shi&#39;ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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UNITED States forces and Shiite militants continued to fight fierce battles yesterday in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, with explosions and gunfire reported near a revered shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine early Friday where radical Shi&#39;ite militiamen were holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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17 September 2004 -- The US military today said US warplanes have fired at suspected hideouts of militants in and around the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Al-Fallujah.
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US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles Monday marked by explosions and gunfire near a revered shrine in Najaf, as the US military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to quickly hand over the holy site to Shiite religious authorities.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 12, officials and witnesses said...
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US marines and Shi&#39;ite militiamen fought fierce battles around a shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday in some of the heaviest fighting since the 20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf  early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque  at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the Iraqi city of Najaf early on  Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the gold-domed  mosque at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes have pounded areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militia are holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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BAGHDAD - US jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City today, killing at least five people and wounding 46, as insurgents detonated a car bomb and fired rockets in separate attacks across the country targeting