Rebuilding starts in Iraq's once-wild West
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AL QAIM, Iraq  - On a street surrounded by ruins of bombed-out homes, stonemasons were working into the hottest part of the day to finish the second-floor gallery of the grand house they are rebuilding for Sheikh Mausuf Murdi.
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Both Iraq's National Library and the Iraq Museum are recovering from the war with international help.
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Plan to channel funds from reconstruction to security signals focus on shorter-term goal of holding elections. WASHINGTON - After more than a year of effort in Iraq, the United States appears to be recalibrating
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Life returns slowly to normal in the battered Iraqi city after a huge US-led operation to wrest control from insurgents.
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BIYARA, Iraq  - A year and a half ago, Ari Askanda  would have been risking death selling Western music and DVDs  from his small shop on the main street of Biyara in Iraq's  Kurdish zone. Now he even sells alcohol under the counter.
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BAGHDAD In Iraq, of late, it has been a tale of two cities, and of two men of vaulting ambition, each seeking a path to power in the Iraq that will emerge, some day, from the turmoil that has followed the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
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MAHMOUDIAH, Iraq -- This bloody and lawless region south of Baghdad illustrates the destabilizing results of a hands-off approach to Iraqi trouble spots.
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It has been 17 months since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq, but people who live and work on Abu Nawas Street say that they no longer believe the promises of reconstruction.
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The United States is revising its  $18.4 billion Iraq rebuilding plan and in a major policy shift  will hand over some contracting power to Iraqi ministries for  U.S.-funded work, said U.S. officials on Tuesday.
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The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved.
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The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Saboteurs wrecked a recently repaired pipeline junction yesterday and the fire set off a cascade of power blackouts that underlined the frustrations faced by US engineers trying to upgrade northern Iraq's creaky oil facilities in the face of relentless bombings.
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Surging violence in Iraq this month has  disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but  plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number  of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
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An idea to redraw the map to give religious and ethnic groups more autonomy is gaining traction in Iraq and the US.
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.
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TARMIYA, Iraq  - Six months ago, the Iraqi town of Tarmiya near Baghdad was a lawless al Qaeda lair, a springboard for launching attacks on the capital.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- Real power on Iraq's streets often lies in the hands of men like Sadi Ahmed Pire.