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BBC News
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The US military in Iraq says 15 women and children were killed in an operation north of Baghdad in which 19 suspected insurgents also died.
It is thought to be one of the biggest losses of civilian life in a single US-led operation since the war began...
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CNN
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Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said. The fighting on Tuesday and Wednes..
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CNN
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Iran is training Iraqi insurgents to assemble weapons, the U.S. military said Wednesday, while also providing some intelligence support for Sunni groups in Iraq.
U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell also told reporters that two militants..
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BBC News
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Fighting has resumed in Somalia, a day after 16 people died during clashes between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents.
A BBC correspondent in Mogadishu says four people have died in the fighting in the north and south of the city.
Thi..
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USA Today
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash...
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CNN
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A battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents raged into Monday morning after Iraqi officials said they foiled a plot to attack pilgrims and kill leading clerics in the Shiite Muslim holy city...
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Yahoo News
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash...
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MSNBC
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Revenge-seeking militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers and burned them alive with kerosene in a savage new twist to the brutality shaking the Iraqi capital a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiit..
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SF Gate
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An al-Qaida in Iraq front group warned on Tuesday that insurgents were waiting for the right moment to retaliate against a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the northern city.
Gunmen killed a policeman near his station in Mosul, when attackers opened fi..
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SF Gate
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In signs of continued instability, suspected al Qaeda in Iraq insurgents launched a surprise attack on Iraqi troops and armed civilians in the southern part of the city Thursday, sparking a fierce firefight that killed several people, Iraqi army sources a..
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BBC News
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The US military says it will recommend criminal charges against an Associated Press photographer detained in 2006 on suspicion of helping Iraqi insurgents.
The Pentagon says additional evidence has come to light proving Bilal Hussein is a "terrorist me..
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MSNBC
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Across much of Pakistan on Monday, the government was firmly in command -- squelching protests, blacking out television stations and picking up dozens more political prisoners to add to the thousands already in jail.
But in vast stretches of the countr..
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MSNBC
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The efforts to recruit local partners began taking shape earlier this year in the western province of Anbar, which had become the virtual heartland for Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida bands. The early successes in Anbar — coming alongside a boost of 30,00..
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SF Gate
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Up to 250 people, including at least 45 soldiers, have been killed in fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan over the past four days, with Pakistani military jets bombing suspected insurgent hideouts amid tough resistance, officials and residents said T..
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USA Today
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An ongoing battle in Helmand province has killed more than 100 suspected insurgents, bringing the Taliban death toll to more than 165 in the past two days, the U.S.-led coalition said Wednesday.
The ongoing clash began Tuesday morning when several doze..
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SF Gate
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A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to mili..
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USA Today
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Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said.
The fighting on Tuesday and Wed..
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BBC News
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The US military says its troops have killed 33 insurgents in a joint operation with Iraqi troops 80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
It said several hundred US and Iraqi soldiers took part in the operation on Monday to reopen the water supply to the town..
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USA Today
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis, the American command said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, south of Baghdad, at least five peopl..
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USA Today
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Sixty suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters hit national police facilities in a coordinated attacks in Samarra, sparking two hours of fighting that saw three people killed and more than a dozen insurgents captured, police said Friday.
The masked attacker..
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