Top Rebel in Iraq Says War With U.S. May Last for Years
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi also acknowledged in an audio message that a top guerilla leader had died in fighting in Falluja.
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On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday  this week's Falluja offensive would not shatter Iraq's  insurgency, while analysts argued merely seizing real estate  does little to stop rebels able to relocate and keep fighting.
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One of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders told President Bush on Monday that civil war could only be staved off if U.S. forces struck harder against Sunni-led insurgents.
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U.S. Army leaders on Monday said the  all-volunteer Army was up to the task of crushing the Iraqi  insurgency and defeating terrorism even if it might take many  years, possibly decades.
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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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BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, delivered a positive but cautious assessment Saturday of progress in the country in 2007, citing the drop-off in violence over the latter half of the year but warning that the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq remains the...
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces will need another year to 18 months before they can take over from American troops, the top US commander in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr., said yesterday.
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Adm. William J. Fallon, expected to be confirmed as the new top U.S. commander in the Middle East, said today that "time is running out" for Iraq's government to demonstrate its commitment to reducing violence in the country, without which Fallon said U.S. military operations will not succeed.
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By Gideon Long BAGHDAD  - Iraqi militants said on Thursday theywould fight for "months and years" to free their country fromU.S.-led occupation as their nemesis President Bush wasinaugurated in Washington for a second term.
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Rebel commanders in the Darfur region of western Sudan urged the founder of their movement on Friday to take part in negotiations on ending four and a half years of conflict in Darfur.
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It will take three to five years before Iraq's government is stable enough to operate on its own, according to the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, who said the surge of American forces has not solved the country's broader problems.
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A U.S. commander in Iraq believes it would not be possible to withdraw troops from his region south and east of Baghdad by year's end. Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said a pullout would be a "giant step backward."
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Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim  said on Tuesday he would carry on fighting during upcoming  peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the  conflict in western Sudan.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, addressing Pentagon employees as he nears the end of his nearly six years in office, said today that the war in Iraq cannot be won "militarily," but he asserted that U.S. policy there can succeed "if we have the patience."
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The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq warned Wednesday that al-Qaida in Iraq was still capable of staging spectacular attacks despite a 50 percent drop in bombings and other violence in his region.
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A key militant leader warns that Iraqi unrest could last for years, as a bomb kills at least six at a Shia mosque.