Fighting a New Kind of War in Iraq
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Classic counter-insurgency seems to be bearing fruit in a small part of Iraq. But will it work elsewhere in the country?
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In Iraq, a new strategy pushes soldiers out of large bases and into communities.
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A TIME investigation reveals how militants in Iraq are devising innovative ways to make the war deadlier than ever for U.S. troops
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Lieutenant Colonel Jim Rainey describes the battle here as ''tackle football in the hallway, with no roof on the hallway.&quot; It's an apt analogy for urban warfare in sometimes extremely close quarters.
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Insurgents in Iraq are employing a variety of new tactics -- from an unprecedented string of helicopter shoot-downs to unusual chlorine bomb attacks and direct assaults on U.S. military bases -- that American commanders say are intended to create chaos and undermine the U.S. and Iraqi military push...
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Will someone explain to me what in the world is going on in Iraq? Our troops are now digging around in trash heaps looking for chunks of metal they can use to improvise armor to protect their vehicles against small-arms attacks.
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The rise of armed Sunni groups Â who now battle al-Qaida in Iraq instead of fighting U.S. troops Â is widely seen as a major reason for a drop in violence across the country.
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The battle between US and Iraqi forces and insurgents in Fallujah is one of the most important of the war. The offensive will probably bring the heaviest urban fighting since Vietnam, but Iraqi officials hope
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How insurgents turned a neighborhood into a battle zone in which U.S. troops have to fight for their lives
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.
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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq-- Three separate but related wars are being waged in this country now, and the third one, against Shiite extremists, is the most worrisome, according to the commander and senior staff of the U.S. Army division patrolling Baghdad.
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The tougher approach by US forces is intended to stabilize the country before elections, but offensives bring new risks. For the first time in the Iraq war, according to military officials, US aircraft last week directly bombed a mosque.
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The Iraq War was supposed to be a preview of the new U.S. military: a light, swift force that relies as much on sensors and communications networks as on heavy armor and huge numbers. But once the shooting started, technology fell far short of expectations.
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The situation in Iraq has become more complicated and turbulent since a series of explosions hit the war-torn country on Saturday.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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Fierce guerrilla attacks in Iraq and  U.S. assaults on rebel bastions have unleashed a new wave of  bloodshed that threatens to discredit the interim government  and undermine prospects for fair elections in January.
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This is supposed to be a make-or-break week in the conduct of the Iraq War. But politically, it's looking a lot like 2006 all over again.