US now battles Sadr in Baghdad
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In three days of fresh clashes, 40 followers of the rebel cleric die.
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U.S. forces backed by dozens of tanks  and Bradley fighting vehicles on Thursday overran Baghdad's  mainly Shi'ite suburb of Sadr City, a powerbase for radical  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said.
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US warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the Baghdad slum Thursday in a new operation aimed at disarming the militia of a renegade anti-US Shiite cleric.
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NAJAF, Iraq - US and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf today, as Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 yards of the holy city&#39;s Imam Ali shrine compound, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks
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U.S. and Iraqi troops began major military operations today against Al Qaeda forces near Baghdad, while in the south, U.S. troops battled Shiite militants.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shia militants and US forces battled in the Sadr City slums yesterday, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in new violence that killed at least five Iraqis and wounded dozens of others.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. infantrymen engaged in fierce battles with cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militants Monday and U.S...
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Clashes in Sadr City, where US forces and militiamen loyal to rebel Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been fighting since April, have killed at least 22 Iraqis.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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US-led forces continued their offensive on the rebel stronghold of Samarra yesterday, with the death toll rising to 125 Elsewhere, 12 people were killed in clashes in Sadr City, and
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US vehicles take up positions around edge of Iraqi capital's Sadr City district.
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BAGHDAD: US tanks raided the Baghdad Shi&#39;ite Muslim stronghold of Sadr City this morning as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said.
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital.
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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 warplanes blasted insurgent positions in Sadr City, and American ground troops pushed into the sprawling Baghdad slum Thursday in a
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The US launches a "precision strike" on militants in Falluja, while explosions ring out in Baghdad's Sadr City.