U.S. commander says no military solution to Iraq
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces cannot solve the problem of violence in Iraq without political action and reconciliation with some militant groups, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.
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America's new top general in Iraq said Thursday that force alone cannot halt the violence and the U.S. must talk to insurgent groups &#151; an old idea that's been tried before but has in the past faltered in the complex web of Iraqi politics.
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U.S. or Iraqi forces control more than half of Baghdad's neighborhoods while the rest still experience high levels of fighting and sectarian violence, the U.S. commander in Iraq's capital said on Friday.
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US commander of operations north of Baghdad says Iraqi forces are unable hold areas taken from insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 10 -- Gen. David H. Petraeus, assuming his position as the new U.S. military commander in Iraq, said Saturday that the "rucksack of responsibility" was too heavy to carry alone there and that without cooperation between Iraqi and U.S. forces, "Iraq will be doomed to continued violence...
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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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The commander of U.S. Marines in Iraq   denied on Tuesday his troops had lost the vast province they   patrol, after newspapers said his intelligence chief had   written the grimmest report from the field since the war began.
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It could be next spring before U.S. troops in Iraq can hand over areas gained in their latest offensive to Iraqi forces and start to draw down, a top American commander said on Friday.
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Iraq&#39;s top general on Sunday rejected President Bush&#39;s criticism that some Iraqi government troops were unwilling to fight insurgents
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FORT LEWIS, Wash  - A U.S. Army officer who refused an order to deploy to Iraq, pleaded not guilty on Monday to several charges at a court-martial that calls into question the right of officers to speak out against the war.
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U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers do not   want to leave other parts of their country to serve in Baghdad,   leaving security efforts in the violent capital short by 3,000   Iraqi troops, a senior U.S. commander said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of US military forces, the top American commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.
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Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, accused Iran today of seeking to "create a Hezbollah-like force" in Iraq to exert Tehran's influence there, but denied that he was preparing the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld   said on Wednesday that American operations in Iraq would end   when Iraqi security forces were able to take over the job, but   he would not estimate when that might be.
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America's outgoing No. 2 commander in Iraq said Tuesday that curbing unemployment and improving services would help reduce the violence in the country, warning that military muscle cannot win the war alone.
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The new U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Saturday that American and Iraqi security forces had to stabilize the country in what he called a high-stakes battle, or it would be doomed to more violence.