U.S. forces on 'hold' for Iraqi partners
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U.S. soldiers in night-vision goggles piled out of a Chinook helicopter under a wide orange moon. They crawled through mud along canals south of Baghdad, then stormed a chicken farm that the U.S. military believed doubled as a car bomb factory.
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With time running out to save a British  hostage in Iraq, U.S. officials said on Wednesday they were not  about to free Iraqi women prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda  ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.
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US-Iraqi troops are locked in battles with insurgents in the northern Iraq city of Mosul Sunday,reports reaching here said. The battle was aimed at wresting back control of
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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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The handover of control of Iraqi armed forces from the US-led coalition to the defence ministry is postponed again.
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U.S. military commanders said Friday the troop buildup in Iraq must be maintained until at least next summer and they may need as long as two years to ensure parts of the country are stable.
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Coalition personnel mounted two operations last month to rescue members of a group of three hostages held by Iraq, but they didn&#39;t find them, a US government official said Tuesday.
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The U.S. command in Iraq may soon be forced to accept groups we've branded 'death squads' if we're ever going to stabilize the country.
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U.S. commanders in Iraq want to freeze troop levels when they reach 130,000 later this year.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces consolidated their  grip on Falluja on Thursday, though they were still meeting  some resistance, U.S. Marines and witnesses said.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US may "pause" pulling troops out of Iraq.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces scoured Samarra for holdouts today after reclaiming control of the city from Sunni militants in fierce fighting that won praise for Iraqi troops.
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WASHINGTON -- Coalition personnel mounted two operations last month to rescue members of a group of three hostages held by Iraq, but they didn't find them, a US government official said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON, United States : An unusual US request for a British battalion to back up American troops in Iraq has shown the political constraints on the use of coalition forces even as an intensifying battle against insurgents is testing the US force there
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The Pentagon yesterday delayed for six weeks the return home of about 4,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq's volatile Anbar province -- the second extension of U.S. forces in the country  in two months -- as the insurgency and rising sectarian violence exert heavier demands on a stretched American ground...
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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US military pressure against insurgents, coupled with Iraqi government efforts to negotiate, may be gaining traction.