Troops launch crackdown in Kirkuk
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Security forces launch a major operation in Kirkuk as a suicide bomber kills 14 people elsewhere in north Iraq.
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Insurgents threatened on Saturday to  cut the throats of two Americans and a Briton seized in  Baghdad, and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi  security forces in Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people.
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16 November 2004 -- US and Iraqi forces today launched operations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to clear insurgents who have been active in the city during the past week.
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KIRKUK, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Saturday outside a police academy in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing at least 20 people and wounding 36, authorities said.    Separately, U.S and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in another part of northern Iraq after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the U.S...
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. troops were braced for  violence in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday after a  strong showing by Kurds in provincial elections threatened to  upset the city's delicate ethnic balance.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - At least seven car bombings rattled the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding 37 others across the oil-rich city, police sources said.
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US and Iraqi forces have controlled most police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after launching a massive offensive against insurgents.
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- A string of seven explosions across the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk Sunday killed at least 27 people and wounded 97, police said.
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Iraqi troops backed by US forces have raided a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing at least two people. On Thursday, the Iraqi interim government warned that Islamic clerics who incite
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The Iraq war entered a dangerous new phase today as 850 armoured British troops were ordered to the troubled heart of the country for a massive crackdown on terrorists.
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A series of car bombs struck the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk in a two-hour span on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 30, police said.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.
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Four car bomb attacks in less than three hours in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday left at least 23 people dead and 66 wounded, Kirkuk deputy police chief Gen. Torhan Abdul Rahman told CNN.
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Treading into yet another flashpoint city, US Marines and Iraqi security forces began a series of raids Tuesday on mosques in and around the Sunni city of Ramadi following an upsurge in the
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Six bombs killed 24 people and wounded 84 yesterday in Kirkuk, a northern oil city that the Kurds want added to their self-ruled region. The violence occurred as politicians argued over federation legislation that a Sunni Arab party warned could tear Iraq apart.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops staged raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq yesterday, arresting dozens, while insurgents stepped up attacks two weeks ahead of national elections, ambushing a car carrying a prominent candidate and killing 17 people in other assaults.