U.S. Planes Pound Area South of Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 -- In the span of 10 minutes Thursday, American warplanes dropped as much explosive south of Baghdad as they usually do in a month, a thundering barrage of more than 40,000 pounds of bombs intended to blow up stashes of insurgent weapons.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. air strikes destroyed a house   during a gun battle before dawn in a restive city north of   Baghdad which killed eight people, the military said.
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At least five Iraqi civilians were killed and 14 wounded when a barrage of rockets hit areas near Baghdad's international airport, including the headquarters of the U.S. military, it said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets on Thursday pounded the rebel stronghold of Fallujah and a town near the Syrian border that had come under control of insurgents, killing dozens of people, officials and witnesses said...
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U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 40. Elsewhere, insurgents detonated a car bomb and fired rockets, killing at least four National Guardsmen, in separate attacks targeting Iraq's beleaguered security forces.
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A bomb exploded under an oil pipeline and set it on fire Monday south of Baghdad, and Iraqi and U.S. forces were sent to secure the area, police said.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded  Falluja Monday as ground troops battled guerrillas on the  outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces  were poised to storm.
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U.S. warplanes bombarded rebel-held  areas of Iraq on Tuesday, targeting fighters loyal to Jordanian  militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, while Jordan's king said Iraq  was too dangerous for elections to be held in January.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early  Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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US and Iraqi forces sealed off roads to an area south of Baghdad on Wednesday and resistance fighters bombed two bridges in a bid to hinder troop movement.
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U.S. air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded 52 early on Sunday in the northeastern Baghdad district of Sadr city, a stronghold for Shi'ite militants, two police sources said.
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Iraqi health officials said U.S. airstrikes south of Falluja killed at least 44 people and wounded 27, including women and children.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes Thursday pounded  areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi'ite militia were  holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militiamen were holed up early on Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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Thousands of US-led troops target lawless areas south of Baghdad known as Iraq's "triangle of death".
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded Falluja  Sunday and American troops reinforced positions around the city  in a battle targeting foreign militants led by America's top  enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Heavy fighting erupted between U.S.  troops and Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad's Sadr City slum on  Monday night and American AC-130 aircraft pounded suspected  rebel positions, witnesses said.