Iraq set for new offensive in Mosul
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Iraqi political and military leaders and senior U.S. military commanders have traveled to Mosul ahead of a planned offensive in the volatile northern Iraqi city, according to a senior U.S. military source in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi prime minister announced Friday that the government was preparing to strike back against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings killed nearly 40 people. He promised the fight "will be decisive."
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Iraqi soldiers and the US army have begun operations against the insurgents in some parts of Mosul, a northern city of Iraq. Angela Bowman, a US military officer, said that the Iraqi and US forces began operating
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US-backed Iraqi commandos were poised Friday to storm rebel strongholds in the northern city of Mosul, as US military commanders said they had &quot;broken the back&quot; of the insurgency with their assault on the former rebel bastion of Fallujah.
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Insurgents have launched new attacks in several Iraqi cities, continuing their campaign of violence in the face of a US and Iraqi offensive to crush them.
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INSURGENT fighters seized key areas of the northern city of Mosul yesterday, raiding police stations, shelling US and Iraqi soldiers and threatening Iraqâs third largest city with the same disorder that provoked the assault on Fallujah.
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The second major attack on American forces this month underscored the grim situation in a militant stronghold in Mosul.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through  Iraq's third largest city.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced that he was sending more troops to Mosul to drive the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from what he described as its last major stronghold in Iraq.
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The Iraqi government sent reinforcements to the countryâs third-largest city, Mosul, today, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that US officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in Fallujah - now said to be under 80% US control.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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Description: The US-led invasion of Fallujah has sparked a major upsurge in fighting elsewhere in Iraq. Insurgents seized control of major parts of the northern city of Mosul, prompting a counterattack by the US NPR&#39;s Philip Reeves reports.
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The US general in charge of Mosul says the northern Iraqi city is back under US and Iraqi control, but admits a two-day insurgent rampage last week caused alarm and stretched security forces.
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Some 5,000 US Marines, British troops and Iraqi forces launched a new offensive Tuesday aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds across a cluster of dusty, small towns south of Baghdad.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy with insurgents rampaging through  Iraq's third largest city.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- US and Iraqi troops recaptured police stations and secured bridges in Mosul on Tuesday in an offensive aimed at pushing out fighters supporting the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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Iraq's prime minister announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two deadly blasts that killed 34 people and a provincial police chief.