U.S. says 10,000 troops in major Iraq offensive
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The U.S. military using attack helicopters, armored fighting vehicles and 10,000 soldiers launched an offensive north of Baghdad on Tuesday in one of the single biggest operations since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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BAGHDAD: More than 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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A brigade of new American troops arrive in Baghdad to make the total US troop stationed in the Iraqi capital to 40,000 by Monday, as the US and Iraqi forces have warned of a major assault on rebel held areas in Iraq, ahead of the countryâs elections in
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Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and  Iraqi troops were involved in the assault on Monday on the  rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja, where about 3,000 insurgents  are holed up, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
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Thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi  forces pursued a campaign of raids on suspected guerrilla bases  in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on  Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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The major  U.S. offensive launched last weekend against insurgents in and around Baghdad has significantly expanded the military's battleground in Iraq -- "a surge of operations," and no longer just of troops, as the second-ranking U.S. commander there said yesterday -- but it has renewed concerns...
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After a string of battlefield failures by the nascent Iraqi security forces, the U.S. military has committed as many as 10,000 advisers to work directly with Iraqi units in the coming months.
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More than 10,000 US soldiers and marines have taken positions around Fallujah for an expected assault, as US jets pummelled insurgent targets Friday and troops blocked key roads.
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American casualties in Iraq are mounting as the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah unfolds. As of Tuesday evening there, 10 American troops had been killed in action and an undisclosed number wounded &#151; a toll described by a senior U.S. commander as very light.
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More than 2,000 US and Iraqi troops are targeting insurgents in the northern section of Babil province, the US military announced Thursday.
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ZAHMM, Iraq, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. military launched a major offensive early Tuesday against one of the largest known redoubts of al-Qaeda in Iraq, part of a new nationwide campaign to destroy remaining pockets of the Sunni insurgency.
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The United States is dispatching an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq and extending the stays of more than 10,000 others to bolster security ahead of January&#39;s scheduled elections.
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The US military presence in Iraq will grow by nearly 12,000 troops to 150,000 by next month, the largest level since the invasion last year, to provide security for the Iraqi elections
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The U.S. military will temporarily  boost its troop strength in Iraq to about 150,000 from a  current level of 138,000 to provide extra security for  elections set for Jan. 30, defense officials said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 2: The Pentagon will increase the number of US troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the US occupation of Iraq began in the spring of 2003, in an effort to reduce violence during elections scheduled next month.
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Ten U.S. forces were killed in four separate incidents Wednesday in Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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More than 10,000 US military personnel have been wounded in Iraq, Pentagon figures show.