U.S. Forces Storm House, Free Egyptians in Iraq
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U.S. forces in Iraq stormed a house in  Baghdad on Monday and freed Egyptian telecommunications  engineers kidnapped since Sunday, the head of their Egyptian  parent company said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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U.S. forces expanded their push against insurgent strongholds outside Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqi units joined the offensive and took control of several districts in the key city of Baqouba, the military said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. air strikes destroyed a house   during a gun battle before dawn in a restive city north of   Baghdad which killed eight people, the military said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis  in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaeda hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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U.S. troops stormed Tuesday into an insurgent-controlled area of a turbulent province where police reported that gunmen &#151; some wearing military clothing &#151; had massacred 29 Shiite villagers the night before.
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Iraqi forces backed by American soldiers raided one of the country's most important Sunni mosques as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers &#151; part of a crackdown on militant clerics opposed to the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah. Witnesses said at least three people were killed and 40 arrested.
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More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops met no resistance on Sunday when they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad.
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Gunmen kidnapped an American, a Nepali and two Arab men from their Baghdad office on Monday, police said. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket- propelled grenades.
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BAGHDAD  - U.S. troops manning a checkpoint Monday found four Egyptian technicians who had been kidnapped the previous day in Baghdad, freeing them and arresting some of the abductors, an Egyptian diplomat said.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a Briton from a house in central Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a wave of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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AAYTHA, Iraq  - A house in northern Iraq was  destroyed overnight in what residents said on Saturday was a  U.S. air strike that killed 14 people and wounded five.
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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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American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis &#151; some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months &#151; in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida fighters and Shiite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said Monday.
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HASWA, Iraq  - In the numbing cold before dawn,  Iraqi commandos backed by U.S. Marines stormed into a  farmhouse, forcing four men onto the kitchen floor and  isolating dazed women and children in adjacent rooms.
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U.S. forces in Iraq on Friday launched a  big offensive in the rebel stronghold of Samarra and said they  had secured key government and police buildings.