Iraq violence lowest since '06 mosque attack: U.S.
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a 2006 mosque attack which unleashed the deadliest phase of the Iraq war, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
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Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and injured at least 203 others, U.S...
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A mortar and rocket attack on a  U.S. military dining hall killed 22 people and wounded more  than 50 in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of  the deadliest attacks on U.S. forces since the war began.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and wounded 203, U.S...
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U.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people, officials said. British forces in the southern city of Basra, also the site of recent fighting, held similar talks with al-Sadr officials there.
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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 Iraq over the previous year,citing the drop-off in violence over the latter half of the year but warning that insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq remains the...
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With violence down in Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan out into communities on the rim of the capital to shut down car bomb factories, which remain a threat despite a recent drop in execution-style killings in the city, the U.S. military said Monday.
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Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other pr...
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An alliance of Shi'ite Islamist groups  won the most votes in Iraq's election, but the percentage it  received -- 47.6 percent -- was lower than many expected,  according to the final tally released on Sunday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A guerrilla attack on a tented  dining hall at a U.S. base in northern Iraq killed 18 Americans  and four Iraqis in the deadliest strike on U.S. forces since  last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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Cuts in U.S. troop levels in Iraq will not derail recent security gains, but the Iraqi government must move quicker to take advantage of the falls in violence, a senior U.S. general said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a tented dining  hall at a U.S. military base killed 22 people and wounded more  than 60 in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of the  deadliest attacks on U.S. forces since they invaded.
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The attack signaled that the cycle of violence following the destruction a Shiite shrine has not entirely unfolded.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the north sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants are stepping up attacks in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, as a spate of bombings in the north of the country killed 21 people and wounded dozens.