Fresh fighting in Fallujah scares away returning residents
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Some Fallujah residents decided against returning to their war-battered city Friday when fighting erupted for a second straight day in the former rebel stronghold.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Residents of the devastated city of Fallujah will begin returning to their homes later this week in several stages, and each family will be compensated for damages caused by recent fighting between US troops and insurgents, Iraqi&#39;s
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The medical team that treats US casualties in the Fallujah area has doubled its staff and supplies to prepare for an expected assault on the insurgent stronghold, a battle that could be the bloodiest since the United States invaded Iraq 19 months ago.
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At least 32 people killed near Fallujah in fresh US overnight onslaught, as fighting flares in Baghdad. By Fares al-Dulaimi - FALLUJAH, Iraq.
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Foreign fighters, once admired by residents of Fallujah as comrades in their struggle against American forces, have become reviled as their promises of protection went unfulfilled during the US offensive.
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WASHINGTON -- The former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has calmed somewhat, with signs of commerce reappearing on the streets and no shots fired over the past 10 days at US or Iraqi forces, the Marine general overseeing US troops in the city said yesterday.
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American commanders are expressing confidence that the Fallujah offensive will restore order in that hotbed of Sunni resistance, but they caution that much fighting remains.
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled last year's violence are returning, but many more are staying away. Here are four reasons why it's too early to proclaim the end of the civil war
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Sunni refugees displaced from Fallujah are struggling to come to terms with Iraq's post-election political reality.
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The Fallujah fight may offer a verdict on training - and whether control can bring peace to the Iraqi city.
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Violence erupts in the Iraqi city of Falluja as residents return for the first time since the US offensive there.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Commanders are warning US troops that the battle for Fallujah -- which appears to have started -- may lead to the most brutal urban fighting since the Vietnam War.
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As officials prepare to start letting residents return to Falluja, they must figure out how to win back the confidence of the people whose city they have destroyed.
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More than 900 residents of Fallujah returned to homes they fled before last month&#39;s military operation in the Iraqi city, on the first day of a program overseen by US and Iraqi forces, the US military said.
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Iraqi officials say the first more than 200,000 residents who fled fighting in Falluja are to begin returning home.
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Some 2,000 Iraqis who fled a U.S.-led  offensive on Falluja more than a month ago will return to the  Sunni Muslim city Thursday although sporadic fighting persists  in some areas, Iraqi ministers said Wednesday.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US military officers contending with scattered gun battles across this smoldering city predict it will be weeks -- and longer in some neighborhoods -- before residents can return and work can begin on rebuilding hundreds of houses damaged in the fighting and on overhauling water, electricity, and sewage systems weakened by years of neglect.