US troops seize last Falluja stronghold
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BEHIND a barrage of tank and artillery fire, US troops last night stormed into southern Falluja, overrunning the final insurgent stronghold in the city after nearly a week of intense urban combat that has killed 24 Americans and more than 1,000 insurgents
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A US Marine arrests Iraqi men in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. About 80 percent of the city was said to be under US control, with insurgents pushed into a narrow corner.
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Iraqi troops backed by US Marines have seized Falluja&#39;s main hospital, the first step in what is expected to be a major push to retake the city from insurgents, hours after a 60-day state of emergency is imposed across most of the
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces have seized control of up to 70 percent of this rebel stronghold, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday, as American and Iraqi troops battled insurgents along the city's main street and confronted isolated pockets of gunmen who had slipped back behind US lines.
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US marines say they have trapped most of the insurgents in Falluja in the south of the Iraqi city.
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US forces yesterday pummeled what commanders said were the last insurgent strongholds here, two narrow patches of territory on the southern
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The U.S. military sealed off Falluja on  Friday and launched a night of air strikes on the rebel city  ahead of an assault seen as critical to the interim  government's attempt to pacify Iraq before January polls.
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Four hostages are found alive in or near Falluja by US troops fighting to wrest control of the city from insurgents.
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After five days of fighting, US and Iraqi forces are now said to be in control of nearly all of Fallujah, capturing or killing hundreds of insurgents who have used the city as a stronghold for months.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. tanks spread out within the  last rebel stronghold in Falluja on Monday as Marines hunted  down insurgents in a clean-up operation.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The Iraqi government and U.S.  commanders declared their offensive on rebel-held Falluja a  success on Thursday but U.S. troops still faced dangers in the  city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city. On Tuesday night
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US warplanes pounded Falluja today, as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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US aircraft mounted another air strike on the guerrilla stronghold of Falluja west of Baghdad Monday, residents said. In recent weeks the US military has launched several attacks
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American-led forces in Iraq say they are now in control of almost all the former militant stronghold of Fallujah after six days of fighting.
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US marines today consolidated their hold on Falluja as insurgents struck back against US-led forces across Iraq. Rebels kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen and launched bomb and rocket attacks on British and Iraqi forces.
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The US captures a senior member of the Zarqawi network in a raid on the Iraqi city of Falluja, the military says.