Opportune rift in Iraqi resistance creates chance to improve ...
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When an opportunity presents itself to weaken the Sunni insurgency, which is Iraq&#39;s biggest security threat, US forces and the interim Iraqi government must act on it, press the advantage and not wait for a more politically favorable moment.
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Iraqi leaders hope to flesh out a deal to end sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad when they meet again on Tuesday but conceded a four-point plan, drafted under U.S. pressure, was still a long way short on vital substance.
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A lack of Iraqi government organization and the city's ethnic mix complicates preparations for suppressing the insurgency
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Iraqi lawmakers reconvened on Tuesday after a month-long summer recess, under mounting pressure to get legislation passed that Washington believes will help heal deep sectarian rifts in the country.
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The hard-core Iraqi resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, and has many more sympathizers, according officials.
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In talks with some groups, the US aims to convince Shiite militias that political reconciliation, not violence, is the way forward.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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Iraqi and American commanders are preparing for a prolonged Â and possibly pivotal Â fight against al-Qaida in Iraq in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local Sunni fighters.
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The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that, while stiff at times, was much less than had been
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Maybe the Iraqi government will seize the opportunity for political reconciliation that the United States set out to buy for it with blood and treasure, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker said yesterday. And maybe it won't.
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The military strategy is mostly working, but Iraq must salvage its deteriorating political situation for the effort to succeed
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 6 -- The Iraq Study Group's prescriptions hinge on a fragile Iraqi government's ability to achieve national reconciliation and security at a time when the country is fractured along sectarian lines, its security forces are ineffective and competing visions threaten to collapse the...
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Both Iraqi unity and global engagement may get a boost.
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It began six months ago as an apparent effort to put an Iraqi face on an insurgency dominated by a foreign militant. Now the al-Qaida-linked Mujahedeen Shura Council may be seeking to assume a leading role.
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Competing constituencies in Iraq have a greater stake in continuing chaos than in compromise, experts say.
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Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to push for political changes intended to reconcile the countryâs warring sects.
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Iran and Syria, long accused of enabling the violence in Iraq, are showing new interest in finding an end to the disorder.