Losses mourned in an insurgent stronghold
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US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed
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BESLAN, SEPTEMBER 5: The sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russiaâs school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan on Sunday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed.
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BAGHDAD: US-led forces swept hotspots in the &quot;triangle of death&quot; yesterday in a push to reclaim rebel enclaves ahead of January polls.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a slain Pakistani radical cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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The second major attack on American forces this month underscored the grim situation in a militant stronghold.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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Scores of rebels and a dozen local police and soldiers were killed in an upsurge of fighting in Afghanistan in the past two days that also left several civilians dead, officials said Saturday.
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A month of US airstrikes on rebel-held Fallujah has killed more than 100 suspected insurgents, taking a heavy toll on the terror network of
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US-led forces swept hotspots in a &quot;triangle of death&quot; on Wednesday in a push to reclaim rebel enclaves ahead of key January polls, as more than 200 political groups threw their hat in the electoral ring.
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Fallujah: Rebels fought for their lives in Fallujah as US troops closed in after losing 18 colleagues in three days of fighting which they said had left more than 500 militants dead.
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Funerals are held in the Afghan city of Kandahar for the victims of a suicide attack that officials now say killed more than 100 people.
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Hundreds of civilians have died in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces in Chad's capital, Red Cross officials said Tuesday, as the insurgents agreed to a cease-fire and their momentum faded. Former colonial power France threatened to enter the fight to support the government.
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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A month after armed gunmen took over 1,200 people hostage in Beslan, in Southern Russia, grief and anger still dominate this small town.
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A coalition officer died Sunday of wounds suffered in fighting near an opium-rich insurgent stronghold, the military said.
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.