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ensued as artillery fire provided cover firing into the surrounding palm groves. At the same time, a convoy of 19 Humvees, two
Bradley fighting vehicles and several other vehicles approached from the opposite end. The soldiers encountered several machine gun nests in the town. Some of the fighting was almost hand to hand. The Apaches strafed insurgent positions with cannons and sent Hellfire missiles into buildings soldiers were attacking from the ground. By sunset 16 insurgents were killed and 3 American soldiers were wounded in the initial clashes. As the convoy tried to return to base, they were hit two times by roadside bombs. The Apaches identified the triggermen and killed up to 12 more insurgents. In one of the blasts, 4 American soldiers were killed and 2 were wounded. By the close of the operation on March 24 only the town of Zaganiya was left as the last insurgent stronghold in the Baqubah river valley.
1717:. Also a few weeks later fighting between police and insurgents after an attack on Baquba's police headquarters shut down the city, closing the university, schools and most stores, and clearing the streets of everyone, except a few who attempted to stock up on food. At least 55 militants were killed in clashes in the preceding days, according to anonymous police sources. During the fighting a mass grave with 28 bodies was discovered. After that U.S. and Iraqi forces begin raids in the city. The morgue in the city reports by the beginning of December 2006 that it had received 102 bodies in the previous two weeks. After the announcement of a new attempt by the U.S. and Iraqi security forces to take back the streets of Baghdad the insurgents started to speed up their move and it is believed that the reason behind the little resistance found by the security forces in Baghdad during
1696:'s birthday, insurgents launched a coordinated offensive throughout the province, attacking Muqdadiyah, Balad Ruz, Kanaan, Khalis, Khan Bani Sa'ad and the capital Baqubah. The insurgents used the rural areas east and southeast of the capital, from Balad Ruz to Turki as supply bases for their bombing campaigns in Baghdad and Diyala. They were also based in the Diyala river valley, northeast of Baqubah, where they fought for control of Muqdadiyah, an important line of communication to Lake Hamrin, Kirkuk and Iran. The insurgents also had control of the tribal areas of Khan Bani Sa'ad south of Baqubah to
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Endowment, which administers Shiite religious facilities in the province. Two guards of the Diyala's Shiite governor, Raad Rashid Mullah Jawad, were killed. The governor himself was wounded and one of the dead guards was his brother. The dead also included Sheik Ahmed al-Tamer and Sheik Kanaan al-Faraj, both leaders of two former insurgent groups who became U.S.-allied Iraqi militias.
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center of the city and around the main city market. On the first day of the operation 22 insurgents and one U.S. soldier were killed. The next week saw U.S. forces trying to take
Baqubah back from the insurgents. The attack on the city came from the west but was complicated by a maze of booby-trapped houses. It took the Americans a week before they secured 80 percent of the western section of the city. The insurgents already had intelligence that the U.S. army was going to attack the city and evacuated up to 80 percent of its principal leadership long before the operation.
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continued to attack in Diyala, targeting not only military but also civilian targets such as a cafe in Balad Ruz, where 30 people were killed on March 7. The capture of policemen continued, with another 10 policemen captured and 1 killed when insurgents overran a police station in the town of Hibhib. The bodies of five of the policemen were found the next month. Also, 20 Iraqi soldiers and policemen were captured at the beginning of April and were executed several days later.
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Stryker convoy was hit by machine-gun, RPG and mortar fire. In the ensuing chaos one American soldier was killed, 12 were wounded and two Stryker armored vehicles were destroyed. The same day, in two other separate incidents, two more American soldiers were killed in the province.
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before the campaign and had been constantly under hit-and-run attacks later on. TF 300 conducted combat operations clearing the Diyala River Valley of AQIZ and IISI forces. With that the squadron became the only squadron of the U.S. Army to lose almost a third of its force in the Iraq war.
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2250:Military operations of the Iraq War involving Iraq
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1943:"Attacks Surge as Iraq Militants Overshadow City"
1798:Because of the crackdown in Baghdad, many Shiite
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1265:2nd Al Hillah
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1173:
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38:Please help
33:verification
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1875:Mass graves
1856:Ashraf City
1848:FOB Grizzly
1615:4th Karbala
1590:3rd Samarra
1491:3rd Baqubah
1397:2nd Baqubah
1382:4th Karbala
1316:2nd Samarra
1216:9th Baghdad
1211:8th Baghdad
1206:1st Samarra
1178:7th Baghdad
1170:6th Baghdad
1124:1st Baqubah
1114:5th Baghdad
1109:4th Baghdad
1073:1st Karbala
1063:3rd Baghdad
1053:2nd Baghdad
1048:1st Baghdad
977:Camp Ashraf
944:Spring 2008
910:2nd Karbala
875:Black Eagle
817:2nd Ramadan
736:CIMIC-House
714:Good Friday
686: [
672:Spring 2004
653:1st Ramadan
609:Karbala Gap
587:1st Karbala
558:Haditha Dam
302:Brig. Gen.
282:Brig. Gen.
96:August 2008
2219:Categories
2002:1250006961
1800:Mahdi Army
1698:Salman Pak
1657:Background
1442:2nd Kirkuk
1334:1st Kirkuk
972:Palm Grove
869:U.K. bases
790:2nd Ramadi
709:1st Ramadi
604:Green Line
390:106 killed
270:Maj. Gen.
258:Maj. Gen.
66:newspapers
2204:March 16,
2160:March 13,
1972:USA Today
1844:Al Khalis
1686:caliphate
1625:2nd Basra
1407:Balad Ruz
1372:2nd Balad
1352:Qahtaniya
1311:Abu Sayda
1293:2nd Mosul
1183:1st Balad
1157:2nd Erbil
1104:1st Mosul
1099:1st Basra
1086:1st Erbil
967:Abu Kamal
950:2nd Basra
857:3rd Najaf
731:2nd Najaf
726:Danny Boy
703:Sadr City
678:City Hall
563:1st Najaf
547:Nasiriyah
540:1st Basra
369:Peshmerga
224:Peshmerga
2050:March 8,
1306:Makhmour
1188:Khanaqin
1165:Musayyib
802:Diwaniya
785:Tal Afar
763:Al Qa'im
719:Husaybah
659:Latifiya
641:Al Anbar
529:Umm Qasr
468:Timeline
451:Iraq War
337:Strength
161:Location
130:Iraq War
1704:Prelude
1690:Baqubah
1673:(AQI).
1094:Ashoura
937:Nineveh
888:Baqubah
773:Haditha
741:Samarra
625:Baghdad
582:Samawah
455:Outline
290:†
80:scholar
2106:May 1,
2011:,p.183
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1978:May 1,
1952:May 1,
1580:Tikrit
1402:Dujail
1392:Karmah
1357:Amarah
1329:Amirli
841:Diyala
830:Amarah
824:Sinbad
683:Al Kut
598:Hillah
592:Al Kut
534:Al Faw
367:2,000
358:20,000
286:
177:Result
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