Iraq violence lowest since '06 mosque attack: U.S.
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a mosque attack last year 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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Violence is high in Iraq, with scant political progress and mixed results on security, a Congressional report said on Tuesday, a day after President George W. Bush visited Anbar province and struck an upbeat tone.
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BAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least 13 Sunni mosques came under attack in Iraq the day after bombers struck a revered Shiite shrine for a second time, but the violence did not escalate into the open sectarian warfare that many people in Iraq had feared.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A guerrilla attack on a tented  dining hall at a U.S. base in northern Iraq killed 18 Americans  and four Iraqis in the deadliest strike on U.S. forces since  last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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The number of insurgent attacks in Baghdad has dropped in recent weeks, and American forces are getting better at finding car bombs before they go off, a top U.S. general in Iraq said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed at reducing tensions in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and U.S...
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Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the first year of the American invasion, finally opening a window for reconciliation among rival sects, the second-ranking U.S. general said Sunday as Iraqi forces formally took control of security across half the country.
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Violent and property crime rates in the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years during 2003, the US Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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The sharp drop in violence that has accompanied the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq has given the war-torn country a rare opportunity for stability, analysts said on Wednesday.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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The number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi  security forces has declined significantly in the five days  since millions of Iraqis braved threats to vote, the U.S.  military said Friday, but the insurgency remains dangerous.
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BAGHDAD - The second-ranking US commander in Iraq said yesterday that violence was down in Baghdad following the seven-month security operation in Baghdad, but that too many civilians are still dying.
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Violent civilian deaths in Iraq in December were down 75 percent from a year ago, new figures released on Monday showed as Iraqis partied in the streets of some parts of the capital Baghdad to bring in the New Year.
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A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque &#151; one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims &#151; spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - An attack on a tented dining hall  at a U.S. military base killed 24 people and wounded about 60  in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of the deadliest  attacks on U.S. forces since they invaded Iraq last year.
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America's No. 2 diplomat in Iraq predicted progress by fall on bringing together Iraq's feuding factions as violence claimed more lives Wednesday, including 14 people killed in a late night car bombing near a Shiite shrine in the capital.
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Six car bombs killed 133 people in a Shi'ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the bloodiest attacks since the U.S. invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding toward civil war.