Posted AT 5:32 AM EDT on 04/10/05
U.S. launches new Iraq offensive
Haqllaniyah, Iraq — The U.S. military launched a major offensive early Tuesday in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley, an operation aimed at insurgents using the area as a safe haven in a region where 20 Marines were killed in August.
It was the second U.S. offensive launched against al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the western Anbar region in four days.
Air strikes by U.S.
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