Rockets hit as Iraq rebels talk peace
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TWO rockets slammed into the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad last night, in a brazen attack which overshadowed a pledge by a Shiite militia to disarm.
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The town of Yusufiyah was among the most dangerous places in Iraq as Sunni fighters clashed regularly with coalition troops. But new tactics have changed the dynamics. Car bombings are down, the capture of insurgents is up. And Col. Michael Kershaw now greets his former enemies with kisses and shares meals.
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US artillery has shelled Iraq&#39;s rebel city of Falluja and the military said an air strike had destroyed a mortar bunker used by insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 7, 2004 - Rockets struck a Baghdad hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists late Thursday, drawing return fire and underscoring the precarious security in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces hunted  rebels in the devastated Iraqi city of Falluja on Sunday as  fighting subsided after a ferocious six-day-old assault.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched air strikes  and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations  and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing  about 20 rebels, the U.S. military said.
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REBELS dealt a deadly blow in Iraq, killing 34 people in a town thought cleared of insurgents, as US forces bombarded the stronghold of Fallujah with the fiercest air and ground bombardment in months.
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A rocket has landed in a busy street in central Baghdad, killing at least one person and wounding several others, witnesses said. A loud boom echoed across the city as the rocket struck
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Baghdad, August 22 (NNN): As rebels and Iraqi religious officials prepare to continue talks, US-led forces late on Saturday bombarded Najaf lighting up the night sky after the repeated air strikes, which followed a day of relative calm amid the continued
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A major assault by US forces to wrest control of the rebel-held town of Falluja loomed closer yesterday after Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, warned that his &quot;patience was running thin&quot; with talks to find a peaceful solution.
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left. The fighters had defied US military firepower and the interim Iraqi government for three weeks. accept a peace deal to halt the fighting, after a day of violence in which 110 Iraqis were killed and 501 wounded.
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As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded in a busy street.
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Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding 148. The rockets apparently were fired from a mostly Sunni district targeted by U.S. troops in a crackdown against the sectarian violence roiling the capital.
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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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A car bomb detonated by remote control exploded Thursday in Baghdad, killing two Iraqis but missing a U.S. military convoy as insurgent violence claimed more than 50 lives. Clashes between Iraqi police and rebels erupted along a major highway southeast of the capital.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 26 -- Gunfights broke out and mortar shells came crashing down on parts of the capital Sunday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political leaders.
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US Marines lobbed mortar rounds at rebels in Falluja on Saturday during a five-day-old assault that has caused a &quot;catastrophe&quot; for civilians there and fuelled a revolt in Iraq&#39;s northern city of Mosul.