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| Jan.9 |
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 Plane crash kills 30 Turkish workers Antonov-26 departed from Adana, Turkey, and went down in heavy fog about 1.6 miles northwest of Balad
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| Feb.22 |
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In Samarra, rubble marks grim anniversary A year ago, the bombing of this city's revered Shiite mosque set off a sectarian violence
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| Mar.7 |
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 Suicide bomber kills 30 in café The explosion ripped through a busy marketplace at a popular café in Balad Ruz and wounded another 40 Iraqis
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| Mar.17 |
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Gas attack makes hundreds ill Suicide bombers detonated 3 chlorine-filled trucks in Anbar province, killing 2 police officers and sickened 350 Iraqis and 6 coalition force members
| 2 of the attacks were near the city of Falluja, the third near Ramadi, west of Baghdad
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| Apr.6 |
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Suicide truck bomb kills 20 in Ramadi A truck bomber slammed into an Iraqi police checkpoint. 2 police officers were among the dead
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| May.17 |
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 Soldiers comb 'Triangle' for comrades U.S. troops navigate thick brush, search farmhouses for 3 missing soldiers. Commander: 'We are not going to stop'
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| Jun.3 |
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Suicide blast kills at least 10 in market  A car bomb detonated in an outdoor market in Balad Ruz as the market, just east of Baquba, was packed with shoppers
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| Jun.5 |
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Suicide car bomb kills 15 A suicide bomber struck a local market in Ameriya, near Falluja. In Baghdad, police shot a female suicide bomber in the Sadr City
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| Jun.10 |
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Truck bombing kills 15 at police station A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a police station near Tikrit
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| Jun.12 |
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Blast hits key Shia shrine Map of Samarra Iraq The 3 minarets of the al-Askari, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, have been damaged by an explosion in Samarra
| The bombing destroyed two towers at the mosque. The same holy site was attacked in February 2006. The shrine houses one of 2 tombs in Samarra for Shia imams, which attract pilgrims from around the world
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| Jun.16 |
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Troops find missing soldiers' I.D. U.S.-led coalition forces have found the ID cards of 2 missing U.S. soldiers, abducted last month south of Baghdad
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| Jun.23 |
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9 U.S. troops die| 4 were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a coalition vehicle northwest of Baghdad. U.S. military death toll so far in June is 79 | |
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| Sep.13 |
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Insurgents kill key US ally Map of Ramadi Iraq| Abu Risha, the leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that rejected al-Qaeda, has been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi | |
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| Sep.29 |
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Sacred site to be rebuilt Unesco: Reconstruction work will begin next month on a revered shrine in the city of Samarra blown up in the current conflict
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| Oct.11 |
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Strike 'kills 15 civilians'| 19 insurgents and 15 women and children have been killed in an operation north of Baghdad | |
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| Oct.14 |
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Insurgents attack Shiite pilgrims In the second day of the Eid al-Fitr festival the separate attacks left at least 24 dead
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| Nov.21 |
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 Courthouse car bomb kills 5 Map of Ramadi Iraq A bomb struck a police checkpoint in central Ramadi outside a courthouse
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