Insurgents fight Iraqi forces in city of Mosul

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By Ziad al-Sinjary MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - Dozens of people including civilians were killed on Friday in fighting between Sunni Islamist insurgents and Iraqi government troops in the **rthern city of Mosul, a day after a curfew was imposed there. The fighting erupted in Mosul a day after government forces used helicopters to bomb militants and retake control of the city of Samarra further to the south. The insurgents have been gathering momentum over the past year in their conflict with Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led government, particularly in western provinces bordering Syria such as Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.

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