Iraqi forces battle cult gunmen
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf on Tuesday and Iraqi National Guardsmen surrounded the holy city's Imam Ali Shrine, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks...
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This week's fighting in Diwaniyah between rebels and Iraqi forces highlights the growing power of militias in the country.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and more than 50 wounded, officials said.
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Iraqi forces today joined US troops in the battle with rebel militia in the holy city of Najaf. There was fierce fighting as the joint forces moved to within 200 metres of the Imam Ali shrine, where militiamen
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.
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BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish Army helicopters, swept through Shi'ite militia strongholds south of Baghdad yesterday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two.
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At least nine Iraqis have been killed and several injured in sporadic gunbattles and mortar attacks between Muqtada al-Sadr loyalists and US-led forces in Baghdad.
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A string of bombings has set off clashes between US troops and gunmen in an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
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US-Iraqi forces persuade a remote town in Diyala Province to fight against Al Qaeda insurgents.
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US and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf on Tuesday and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 yards of the holy city&#39;s Imam Ali Shrine compound, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces have moved aggressively in the past week to combat Sunni Arab insurgents in neighborhoods across the capital and to establish a stronger presence in religiously mixed districts plagued by sectarian violence.
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At least 40 Iraqis were killed on  Saturday in fierce clashes near the southern city of Najaf,  where Shi'ite militias are involved in a standoff with U.S.-led  forces, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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US marines and Shi&#39;ite militiamen fought fierce battles around a shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday in some of the heaviest fighting since the 20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles in Najaf today, with airstrikes near a revered shrine and exchanges of mortar fire and artillery, as the US military
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US troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in Baghdad on Monday, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses
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Shiite militants and US forces battled Saturday in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood