Troops celebrate low-key 4th in Iraq
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It was a far cry from the Fourth of July parties a world away, but five U.S. Marines in one of Iraq&#039;s most dangerous cities celebrated with what they had: a hookah, relaxing exhales of strawberry-scented smoke and thoughts of home.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed yesterday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, NC -- Camp Lejeune Marines patrolling south of Baghdad, Iraq, are getting help from British troops. The 24th Marine Exepeditionary Unit of some 2,200 troops says it is being reinforced by some
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they  invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Hundreds of British troops returned to their base in southern Iraq Saturday, ending a monthlong deployment in a restive region near Baghdad that the United States had requested to help back up U.S. forces in new offensives against insurgents.
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Louisiana National Guard troops gathered at a chapel near Baghdad's airport Friday to remember three of their soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle.
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DAHUK, Iraq  - Three PKK soldiers emerge from an orchard and stride up a road in northern Iraq. Locals in a passing pick-up truck offer them a lift and they clamber in, just a few hundred meters (yards) from a police checkpoint.
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American, British and Iraqi troops are continuing their effort to root out insurgents south of Baghdad, in an operation aimed at clearing the way for elections to be held in January.
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Four hundred reinforcement troops from  the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers, arrive at their Iraq base.
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The United States has sought to put a positive angle on its closest ally Britain&#x2019;s plan to pull its 7,100 troops out of Iraq nearly four years after the war&#x2019;s start.Comment
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a 2006 mosque attack which unleashed reprisal sectarian killings, the number two commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
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HADITHA, Iraq  - Four U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Sunday when a Marine Corps helicopter with 16 people aboard suffered mechanical failure and made an emergency landing in a lake, the military said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb attack killed three American soldiers in a convoy as American troops and Iraqi soldiers stepped up pressure on Sunni insurgents before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan this week.    Last year, insurgents sharply increased their attacks against U.S...
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The monthly toll of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq is on track to being the lowest in nearly two years, with at least 34 troop deaths recorded as of Tuesday, but the military cautioned it's too early to declare a long-term trend.
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By July, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq should be down to about 130,000, according to the U.S. commander in Baghdad, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus -- about the same number as before President Bush sent additional combat forces there last spring.
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US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent&#39;s
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Amid the holiday fun of turkey and football, take a little time today to send a thank you to the troops on duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's not that difficult.