Security Took 'Turn for Worse' In Southern Iraq, Report Says
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Security is deteriorating in southern Iraq as rival Shiite militias vying for power have stepped up their attacks after moving out of Baghdad to avoid U.S.-led military operations, according to the latest quarterly Pentagon report on Iraq released yesterday.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control if the violence continues.
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Iraqi security forces are now capable of policing the entire south of their country without British help, senior defence and Foreign Office officials said yesterday
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Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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An attack on Iraq&#39;s main southern pipeline has seriously hampered critical oil exports in the struggling country, Iraqi officials say.
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Italian forces ended their mission in  Iraq on Thursday, handing over the southern province they  patrol to Iraqis, while the United Nations said the country has  become deadlier than ever.
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Two recent assessments warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a 2006 mosque attack which unleashed the deadliest phase of the Iraq war, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
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BASRA, Iraq - Saboteurs have attacked about 20 oil pipelines in southern Iraq, reducing exports from the key oil producing region by at least one third, a top oil official said Thursday.    The cluster of pipelines was attacked late Wednesday in Berjasiya, 20 miles southwest of the southern city of Basra, an official with the state-run South Oil Co...
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US and Iraqi forces control less than one-third of Baghdad, according to a security review.
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A U.S. intelligence report prepared  for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq  through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a  deterioration into civil war, U.S. government officials said on  Thursday.
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Iraqi forces will take over security in a southern province from coalition troops next month, state-run television quoted the prime minister as saying Thursday.
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Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq and the security problems have become more complex than at any time since the U.S. invasion in 2003, a Pentagon report said Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 18 -- More than 40 people were killed Friday during clashes between Iraqi security forces and an obscure Shiite sect in southern Iraq, the deadliest violence since the U.S.-led coalition handed over control of the region last month, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed yesterday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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A U.S. intelligence report prepared  for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq  through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a  deterioration into civil war, government officials said on  Thursday.