U.S. troops kill 18 insurgents in Iraq
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U.S. troops said they killed 18 insurgents in fierce clashes in the volatile western Iraqi city of Ramadi, while the military said it was checking reports that a helicopter had gone down north of Baghdad on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting fighters from the group al-Qaeda in Iraq northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among those killed, the military said.
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Coalition forces backed by U.S. aircraft killed eight al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents on Wednesday during a raid that also left two Iraqi women dead, the U.S. military said.
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American troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents as they attacked a US outpost in Mosul with a car bomb and explosives, the military said Thursday.
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At least 18 people were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday, capping a week of horrific violence in Iraq as al-Qaeda-linked militants threatened to kill two American and a British hostage in 48 hours.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they invaded the country 22 months ago.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- U.S. forces killed eight Kurdish soldiers and wounded nine others at an established checkpoint in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, Kurdish officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops surged into the rebel-controlled city of Samarra Friday, killing more than 90 insurgents in house-to-house combat supported by airstrikes and armor.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents in four days of raids across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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U.S. forces opened fire from helicopters during an overnight clash with Shi'ite militants in western Baghdad, killing 18 people, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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U.S. forces backed by warplanes killed an estimated 25 insurgents in a clash north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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Insurgents launched strikes on Saturday at United States and Iraqi outposts across Iraq, killing at least a dozen Iraqi police officers and national guardsmen
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Eighteen U.S. troops have been  killed and another 69 wounded in this week's offensive to take  control of the rebel-held Iraqi city Falluja, a senior U.S.  Marine Corps commander said on Thursday.
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U.S. soldiers fought with suspected insurgents using a building as a safe house in Ramadi on Tuesday, killing one Iraqi man and five females, ranging in age from an infant to teenagers, the U.S. military said.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - Islamist militants have killed 18 Pakistani soldiers in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 -- American and Iraqi troops have killed 60 Sunni insurgents and captured nearly 200 during a week-long offensive in northern Iraq against al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters, U.S. military officials said Monday.