Insurgents infiltrating coalition, US says
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents and their informants have been infiltrating US and coalition organizations, Iraqi security units, and political parties in growing numbers, posing a daunting challenge to efforts to defeat the guerrillas and create a stable Iraqi state, according to US military officials, Iraq specialists, and a new study of Iraqi security forces.
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US and Iraqi troops surged into the rebel-controlled city of Samarra Friday, killing more than 90 insurgents in house-to-house combat supported by air-strikes and armor.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Thousands of US and Iraqi forces swept into this insurgent stronghold yesterday, driving into the city's narrow streets and blasting suspected guerrilla positions in a massive thrust that American military leaders said would not cease until the city is under the full control of the interim Iraqi government.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces were attacked by insurgents during a combat patrol in southern Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 65 suspected militants, the coalition said.
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Insurgents tried to break through the US cordon surrounding Fallujah on Thursday as American forces launched an offensive against concentrations of militants in the south of the city.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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US-led forces pushed into the center of Fallujah, capturing strategic positions, conducting searches and fending off fire from insurgents, who have used at least one mosque as a base, the US military said.
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Insurgents have launched new attacks in several Iraqi cities, continuing their campaign of violence in the face of a US and Iraqi offensive to crush them.
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FOREIGN fighters from the al-Qaeda terror network were infiltrating Afghanistan to disrupt upcoming elections, the commander of US forces in the country said today.
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The US-led coalition says it has killed nearly two dozen insurgents in a clash in the southern Afghanistan.
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US and Iraqi forces battled their way into the heart of one of Iraq&#39;s key insurgency strongholds Friday in the first of a series of promised major offensives to regain control of areas lost to the rebels.
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US military officials in Iraq say American and Iraqi forces have launched operations against insurgents in the northern city of Mosul.
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(CBS/AP) American forces pushed deeper into the southern reaches of Fallujah, cornering militants backed into smaller pockets of the city.
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The US military in Iraq says American warplanes carried out air strikes in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah overnight, destroying safe houses and weapons storage facilities used by militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents
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American and Iraqi forces battled their way into the center of this insurgent-ridden city on Friday, claiming that they had taken control of more than
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.