U.S. Troops Training for Iraq in Israel -Paper
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U.S. troops from Iraq are being  trained by the Israeli army in urban and guerrilla warfare  tactics at a military base in Israel, a local newspaper said on  Wednesday.
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The Pentagon acknowledged on Monday  broad shortfalls in the U.S. training and equipping of Iraqi  security forces, but said a majority of Iraq will be under the  control of these forces by the end of December.
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Iran is training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure for change, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, while violence around the Arab state killed at least 19 people.
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Russian and Israeli officials are planning joint training courses for anti-terror troops, Russian news agencies said Monday, as part of widening cooperation between the two countries in response to devastating terror attacks in Russia.
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The Pentagon is sending elements of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Iraq to bolster security in advance of Iraq's election, scheduled for late January, an Army official said Wednesday.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops
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President Bush sought on Tuesday to boost the morale of US troops facing extended deployments in Iraq by promising to train Iraqi forces to replace them but acknowledged only mixed results so far.
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U.S. officers charged with training Iraqi forces report widespread problems with the program, ranging from poor preparation to not having enough interpreters, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions.
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All U.S. troop reinforcements heading to Iraq to help restore security have now arrived, but it could take several more months before their weight is fully felt, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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The United States is likely to move more than 1,000 troops into Baghdad from elsewhere in Iraq, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.
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The Iraq Study Group report proposes a fundamental shift in the U.S. military mission in Iraq over the next year, substantially expanding the American effort to train fledgling Iraqi security forces while pulling U.S. troops back from combat and patrols.
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The U.S. military plans to speed up the training of Iraq's army by tripling its number of embedded trainers to about 9,000, while keeping a close eye on units' sectarian loyalties, a U.S. general said on Sunday.
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The Pentagon notified U.S. military  combat units based in seven states on Tuesday that they are  likely to be part of next-year's planned rotation of American  forces into Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Amid unrelenting violence in Iraq,   President George W. Bush's spokesman said on Wednesday the top   goal of U.S. troops is to train Iraqi forces, and not trying to   "subdue every bad guy in the country."
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The top U.S. general in Iraq on Thursday ordered American commanders to conduct core values training on moral and ethical standards on the battlefield.
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An influential bipartisan panel is expected to recommend on Wednesday that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year and focus on training Iraqis, offering President George W. Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war.
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A State Department briefing chart dated Sept. 22 indicates the Iraqi border guard force being trained and equipped by the United States still lacks needed weapons, vehicles, body armor and communications equipment.