Iraqi forces can take over by June 2007, says PM
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday his government's forces would be able to take over security command from U.S. troops by June 2007 -- a move which could allow the United States to start withdrawing.
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U.S.-led forces could leave Iraq within  18 months, Iraqi interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told  Britain's Channel 4 News Sunday after Iraq's election.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared Saturday that Iraqi forces could secure the country on their own âany timeâ American troops decided to withdraw.
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U.S. forces said on Friday they could hand over security in the vast Western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces as soon as March or April, after a remarkable turnaround of security in the one-time insurgent stronghold.
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Security control for a province that was once Iraq's most dangerous could transfer to Iraqi forces by March, say officials.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he may soon be ready to name the two men who will be charged with carrying out his pledge to take over security for Iraq within 18 months.
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Â· Petraeus and UK officials upbeat on Iraq's futureÂ· Announcement could come next month
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress on Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."
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Iraq Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has extended for 30 days emergency laws that give his government special powers to crack down on insurgents, the government said in a statement on Thursday.
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Iraqi forces are due to take control of a second province in the south of the country from UK and Italian troops.
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Iraq is ready to take over security in the entire southern province of Basra from the British military, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told visiting Defence Secretary Des Browne on Wednesday.
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The Iraqi president welcomes Tony Blair's plans to cut UK troops in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,000 within months.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will order nearly half the British troops in Iraq home by the end of 2007, British news outlets reported early Wednesday.Comment
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The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said on Monday that America was meeting its military objectives in Iraq and troop levels could be reduced by next summer.
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The U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq are preparing to set a timetable for gradually handing over security authority to Iraqi forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair says in an interview published Wednesday.
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Iraq's prime minister says an arms-for-cash scheme that started in Baghdad last week will be extended to other parts of Iraq.
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The US-led coalition in Iraq formally hands control of the country's armed forces to Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.