Iraq warns of collapse if US troops go
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Foreign minister to remind the US of its responsibility to help build Iraqi forces.
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Iraqi leaders warned on Monday that an early U.S. troop withdrawal could tip Iraq into all-out civil war after the New York Times said debate was growing in the White House over a gradual scaling-down of forces.
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WASHINGTON - The top US military commander in Iraq warned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in May that the country's biggest dam, just up the Tigris River from the northern city of Mosul, is at risk of collapse, putting the city's 1.7 million people in danger of being inundated by a 65-foot flood wave.
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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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The new U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said on Saturday Iraq was doomed to continuing violence if a crackdown on sectarian strife now under way in Baghdad failed.
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Britain looked set to agree to a US request to send its troops into violence-plagued areas of Iraq, a move opponents warned could see the country's soldiers dragged further into the conflict, with the risk of casualties multiplying.
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U.S. military planners have begun work on a fallback strategy in case the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq fails, including a gradual pullout of U.S. forces and more emphasis on training and advising Iraqi forces, the Los Angeles Times reported in Monday's editions.
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WASHINGTON : US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the insurgency in Iraq was &quot;getting worse&quot; and could hinder the organization of Iraqi elections planned for January.
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WASHINGTON : US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Wednesday that the deadly chaos in Iraq will likely continue after the January 30 elections, as the military&#39;s top general said the attack on a base in Mosul was apparently a suicide bombing.
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Former prime minister Sir John Major has warned Britain and the US they can not afford to leave Iraq in "chaos".
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Tony Blair has been warned that British troops in Iraq could face a dangerous backlash if US attempts to seize the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah ended in mass bloodshed.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US may "pause" pulling troops out of Iraq.
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The US Central Intelligence Agency&#39;s station chief in Baghdad has warned in a classified cable that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and would not improve any time soon.
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Iraq could become a training ground for terrorists around the world, a US intelligence report warns.
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Top U.S. officials will likely warn Congress on Monday against major changes in policy in Iraq, but leading Democrats said that strategy has failed and it's time to think about getting troops out.
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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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Turkey's foreign minister warned Monday that a federal system in Iraq that could lead to autonomous Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish regions could break up the country and threaten the stability of the region.