US troops launch offensive as 29 die in insurgent ambush of elite ...
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US forces launched a new offensive Wednesday against insurgents in an area south of Baghdad dubbed the &#39;&#39;triangle of death,&#39;&#39; while
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About 5,000 US Marines, British troops and Iraqi forces began an offensive yesterday aimed at clearing insurgents from a cluster of dusty, small towns south of Baghdad.
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The 18,000 US troops in Afghanistan have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaida militants through the country&#39;s harsh winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said Saturday.
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BAQOUBA, Iraq - Insurgents attacked American soldiers and Iraqi police Monday, and officials said at least nine people were killed and 15 wounded, including four US troops.
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US troops went on the offensive from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian border Tuesday, pounding Sunni insurgent positions from the
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US troops backed by thunderous air and artillery barrages launched a ground offensive Monday to seize key insurgent strongholds inside
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Insurgents pressed their attack on US troops and Iraq&#39;s security forces Saturday, killing five Iraqi police officers and wounding 14 American soldiers in a relentless effort to derail next month&#39;s elections.
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American casualties in Iraq are mounting as the US-led offensive in Fallujah unfolds. As of Tuesday evening there, 10 American troops had been killed in action and an undisclosed
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MORE than 3000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad today, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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US and Iraqi troops pushed into insurgent-heavy neighbourhoods and stormed police stations in Mosul on Tuesday, launching an offensive to retake parts of the northern Iraqi city where rebels staged a mass uprising last week in support of
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi soldiers started a major operation yesterday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to take control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to
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The skies over Fallujah lit up from the flashes of air and artillery barrages as US troops launched an offensive to seize key insurgent
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American forces began an offensive to seize back control of the Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday, claiming to have killed almost 100 insurgents in several hours of bombing raids and street fighting.
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BAGHDAD, 31 October 2004 - US troops prepared for a major assault to capture the rebel towns of Ramadi and Fallujah as eight Marines were killed yesterday in the bloodiest attack on American forces in Iraq in almost seven months.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq : US aircraft pounded the insurgent enclave of Fallujah, killing seven Iraqis in a raid the military said targeted a hideout of a militant group, as two British Muslim leaders arrived in Baghdad in a bid to save the life of a British hostage
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US FORCES launched a large ground and air offensive against insurgents in Mosul yesterday in an effort to retake areas lost to the rebels in heavy fighting last week.
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BAGHDAD : More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive on another rebel enclave in Iraq as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi pledged new plans to crush insurgents before promised January elections.