US launches offensive in Iraq after a series of carbombings
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United States forces launched a major offensive against insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra early on Friday after three car bombings rocked Baghdad on Thursday.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - US and Iraqi forces began an offensive Tuesday aimed at securing the northern city of Mosul, which has been partly overrun by insurgents.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi soldiers started a major operation yesterday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to take control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to
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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched  operations in Mosul Tuesday to rid Iraq's third largest city of  groups of insurgents who have rampaged through several  neighborhoods for the past six days.
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Some 5,000 US Marines, British troops and Iraqi forces launched a new offensive Tuesday aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds across a cluster of dusty, small towns south of Baghdad.
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Iraqi soldiers and the US army have begun operations against the insurgents in some parts of Mosul, a northern city of Iraq. Angela Bowman, a US military officer, said that the Iraqi and US forces began operating
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BAGHDAD, November 24 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - US-led occupation troops took Tuesday night, November 23, their offensive from Fallujah to Baghdad with some 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launching full-scale raids into
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US and Iraqi forces launched a major attack against the insurgent stronghold of Samarra early today, securing government and police buildings in the city, the US command said. The offensive came in response to &quot;repeated and unprovoked attacks by anti-Iraqi forces&quot; against Iraqi and coalition forces, the military said in a statement. Its aim was to kill or capture insurgents ...
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The US led assault on Fallujah has begun. Two US Marines have been killed along with dozens of Iraqis insurgents. The military said it happened when their military car flipped into the Euphrates River.
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American jets and artillery batteries launched attacks on the insurgent-held city of Fallujah yesterday, hitting targets in the run-up to what could be a major assault on the Sunni- dominated town.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a series of operations on Tuesday targeting al Qaeda in Iraq after an upsurge in suicide bombings which U.S. commanders say are an attempt by the militant group to reignite sectarian violence.
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US troops were drawn into a new offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday to tackle a tide of insurgency unchecked by the military assault on Falluja.
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U.S. troops raided a car bomb factory west of Baghdad with five buildings full of propane tanks and ordinary chemicals the military believes were to be used in bombs, a spokesman said Thursday, a day after insurgents blew up a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters.
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BAGHDAD : More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive on another rebel enclave in Iraq as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi pledged new plans to crush insurgents before promised January elections.
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Iraqi insurgents took the war to the US-led coalition yesterday, launching a devastating series of attacks across the centre of the country, even as American forces massed for an assault on the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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The US-led assault on Fallujah is the first of what promises to be a series of military operations to secure towns and cities where insurgents could
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US-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Fallujah for the third straight day.