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Iraqi Battles Taper Down

Days of intense fighting in Baghdad and southern Iraq slowed after the U.S.-backed government of Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive against rival Shiite militias and powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for his followers to cease violence.

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Article | BAGHDAD, March 29 -- American aircraft struck militia targets in Basra on Friday, the first time that airpower has been called in to aid a faltering ground offensive there against armed groups that operate outside government control.
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Article | BAGHDAD, March 28 -- The gunfire struck like thunderclaps, building to a steady rhythm. American soldiers in a Stryker armored vehicle fired away from one end of the block. At the other end, two groups of Shiite militiamen pounded back with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. American...
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Article | BAGHDAD, March 31 -- Abdul Qader, his chest and leg wrapped in white bandages, began to cry -- not out of pain, but loss. He remembered seeing the American Humvees, then a hail of bullets. He remembered seeing his close friend and neighbor, Abbas Ramadan, shot as he clutched his 2-year-old grandd...

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