US troops meet little resistance to crackdown
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BAGHDAD -- Thousands of US troops swept house to house through mostly Shi'ite areas virtually unopposed yesterday in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown. But four US soldiers were killed outside of the capital in an area not covered by the operation.
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U.S.-led soldiers control only about a third of Baghdad, the military said on Monday, almost four months into a security crackdown during which troops are dying at rates not seen for more than two years.
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TONY EASTLEY: A visit to American troops who&#39;ve been stationed in Iraq has not gone according to plan for the US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
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Yesterday, America&#39;s troops spoke and their message was clear: they are not getting the support they need from the Bush administration.
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BAGHDAD  - As the Iraqi government tried to warm up to the Sunni Arab minority ahead of January polls, its troops continued joint raids with US forces against insurgent bastions across the country.
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Critics say a long-term US military presence may provoke greater Iraqi resistance of the 'occupier.'
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American military commanders now seriously doubt that Iraqi security forces will be able to hold the ground that U.S. troops are fighting to clear &#151; gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Washington's key strategy to turn the tide in Iraq.
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U.S. commanders say they now control Fallujah except for a few pockets of resistance, mostly in the southernmost part. There, the crack of gunfire could still be heard on Monday, as American forces battled the last of the rebel fighters.
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More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began major operations in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad on Sunday, meeting little resistance as they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols.
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BAGHDAD -- The US Army Reserve soldiers who refused orders to drive a dangerous route were members of one of a few supply units whose trucks are still unarmored, their commanding general said yesterday.
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US military pressure against insurgents, coupled with Iraqi government efforts to negotiate, may be gaining traction.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military is taking as few prisoners as possible in its campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, partly to forestall more complaints about its conduct after at least eight prisoners died in custody, an American commander said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD -- The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while US soldiers searched for weapons house by house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American warplanes struck militant positions in two insurgent-controlled cities Thursday and U.S. and Iraqi troops quietly took control of a third in a sweeping crackdown following a spike in attacks against U.S...
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The United States is unlikely to   begin cutting its troops in Iraq until at least mid-2007 as   they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into   civil war, a senior general said on Tuesday.
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As a well-funded insurgency stiffens, US officials worry about lack of inside knowledge of resistance cells.