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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