Battle suggests new sectarian divides in Iraq
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Sunday's attack on Shiites in Najaf may have been launched by the Shiite 'Army of Heaven' sect.
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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. helicopters battled Sunni Muslim insurgents in central Baghdad today, going house to house in one of the oldest parts of the city in search of insurgent cells and hideouts, authorities said.
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The core conflict in Iraq has   changed from a battle against insurgents to an increasingly   bloody fight between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims, creating   conditions that could lead to civil war, the Pentagon said in a   report on Friday.
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Several people are killed in new clashes between Iraqi and US troops and insurgents in the capital, Baghdad.
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Fierce guerrilla attacks in Iraq and  U.S. assaults on rebel bastions have unleashed a new wave of  bloodshed that threatens to discredit the interim government  and undermine prospects for fair elections in January.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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The Iraqi capital was steeped in blood Tuesday as a fledgling truce in a Shiite rebel bastion was shattered by running battles that officials said had resulted in scores
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The fight over the legislation is at the heart of the critical and divisive debate over whether Iraq should be broken into autonomous states.
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Violence in Anbar province has plummeted. But if al-Qaeda is in retreat, says Joe Klein, the Shi'ite-Sunni split is widening
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting broke out between  U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf,  where Iraq's interim defense minister said he expected a  "decisive battle" to take place on Wednesday.
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After three weeks of bloody conflict in Najaf, fresh fighting in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City suburb and a death toll creeping into the high hundreds have tarnished the reputation of radical
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Iraq was on the brink of a renewed outbreak of nationwide violence last night after United States forces and militiamen fought bloody engagements across Baghdad&#39;s slum district of Sadr City.
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January's severe police crackdown on suspected militants may rekindle sectarian tensions.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Renewed fighting between Shi'ite militants and US and Iraqi forces appeared likely here after talks between rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government collapsed yesterday, raising fears of a climactic showdown in one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities.
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U.S. forces continued to battle militiamen in neighborhoods around the sacred Imam Ali shrine on Wednesday as the Iraqi defense minister warned that a "decisive battle" would commence if the Mahdi Army of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr did not surrender.
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Military waging distinctly different battles with Shiite extremists, Sunni fighters, al-Qaeda in Iraq.