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/ 18 September 2006

Suicide bomber kills 17 in Iraqi market

A bomb in a market killed 17 people and wounded 27 in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, local police said. Police in nearby Mosul said the blast was caused by a suicide attacker who blew himself up. Earlier on Monday, a suicide car bomber killed 13 people at a police recruitment centre in Iraq’s Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

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/ 12 September 2005

Troops tighten grip on Iraq rebel town

Iraqi and United States troops tightened their grip on the northern rebel stronghold of Tal Afar on Monday as insurgents wilted in the face of overwhelming firepower deployed by the 10 000-strong assault force, US commanders said. The 6 000 Iraqi and 4 000 US troops began an all-out offensive late last week.