Where's the 'Decisive Battle' for Mosul?
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A lack of Iraqi government organization and the city's ethnic mix complicates preparations for suppressing the insurgency
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northern city of Mosul and insurgents have fired mortar bombs at a police academy in eastern Baghdad. The Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the mortar attack in Baghdad.
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Insurgents battling U.S. and Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul have been trying to drag the Kurdish minority into their fight and set off a sectarian war, Kurdish and Arab officials say.
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Violence in Mosul is damaging efforts to hold elections in the city, the US commander in north Iraq tells the BBC.
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Description: The US-led invasion of Fallujah has sparked a major upsurge in fighting elsewhere in Iraq. Insurgents seized control of major parts of the northern city of Mosul, prompting a counterattack by the US NPR&#39;s Philip Reeves reports.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi city of Mosul was almost deserted on Wednesday, as the US military shut down five bridges and cut off areas where insurgent attacks have been launched in the past.
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MOSUL, Iraq US troops have clashed with insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque in northern Iraq. The US military says two attackers were killed and 34 civilians hurt.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A frontal assault on U.S. troops by  dozens of Iraqi insurgents in Mosul left an American soldier  and about 25 guerrillas dead in one of the boldest attacks yet  on occupying forces in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq was on the brink of an all-out assault on rebel-held Fallujah yesterday as deadly clashes erupted between US troops and insurgents in the neighbouring city of Ramadi.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A semblance of calm returned to  Mosul on Friday after U.S. forces carried out air strikes on  insurgents, but residents said Iraq's third largest city  remained tense and Iraqi police were nowhere to be seen.
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Why Fallujah won't be the last bloody battle in the race to pacify Iraq in time for its elections
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.
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Death threats have chased away four elections officials in Mosul, stalling preparations for the vote in the northern city. Insurgents have torched election materials and a militant group believed to operate in Mosul has warned Iraqis not to participate in the election.
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MOSUL, Iraq - âThey come up in their Opelâs, attack and leave,â says a business owner in the heart of Mosul, explaining how insurgents operate in Iraqâs northern capital.
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MOSUL, Dec 11: A US aircraft dropped a half-ton bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday after guerillas attacked an army patrol that was trying to capture an arms dump, a military spokesman said.
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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.
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Iraq said on Wednesday it was determined to "cleanse" its northern city of Mosul of al Qaeda fighters but its U.S. backers said a planned operation might not deal the decisive blow that Baghdad wanted.