Marines enter trip-wired Fallujah
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Billed as the biggest urban fight since Vietnam, US forces in Iraq launched a major assault at nightfall.
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The US military says it responded to enemy fire on the edge of Fallujah, Iraq. A Marine spokesman says troops had been taking sporadic fire and countered with tanks and artillery.
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BAGHDAD  - Nearly 1,500 people have returned to the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah since the US military and Iraqi government started to welcome back the inhabitants of the war-torn city, the US marines said.
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A US Marine of the 1st Division gestures during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swathe
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The Iraqi city of Fallujah has been &quot;liberated&quot; by coalition and Iraqi forces who are currently fighting to destroy remaining pockets of insurgents and terrorists in the city, according to Marine Lt.
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The long-awaited assault on by US troops on the Iraqi city of Fallujah appears to have started. US forces have stormed into western districts seizing the city&#39;s main hospital and securing two key bridges over the Euphrates River.
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Fallujah, Iraq -- US Marines said American forces had taken control today of 70 percent of Fallujah in the third day of a major offensive to retake the insurgent stronghold.
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US Army and Marine units thrust into the heart of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on
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U.S. Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks. The clashes raged as nearly 1,000 residents returned to the devastated city for the first time since U.S. troops drove out most of the militants last month.
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Black Watch troops have arrived at their new base south of Baghdad, the Ministry of Defence announced. The soldiers are relieving US forces who are expected to mount an all-out assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
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Fallujah: US troops with Iraqi soldiers surged into the heart of Fallujah in a hail of explosions and gunfire on the second day of the largest operation in Iraq since last year&#39;s US-led war.
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A man argues with a US and Iraqi soldiers as he waits to be allowed to enter Fallujah on the city limits Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004 as first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled last month&#39;s US lead offensive started returning.
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An Iraqi Red Crescent aid convoy has entered Fallujah for the first time after five days of fighting between insurgents and US-led forces.
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Iraqis look on as a passing US military humvee stirs up the dust, as they wait on the city limits to be allowed to enter Fallujah Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, as the first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled
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ONLY a few miles separate the rebel city of Fallujah from the sprawling complex of US Marine bases. While the Iraqi city is steadily emptying of people, the American camps are rapidly filling up with extra
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Tens of thousands of US Marines are leading a fierce fight into the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, hoping to succeed in their second crack at a mission insurgents thwarted last April.
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Medical teams and convoys from the Iraqi Red Crescent are expected to enter the embattled city of Fallujah Saturday carrying urgent humanitarian assistance.