Attacks in Iraq at all-time high, Pentagon says
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Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians in the three months to November 10 have surged 22 percent over the previous three months to reach an all-time high, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
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A brutal attack is just the latest example of violence in the city, which has become the new focus of conflict in Iraq. BY EDMUND SANDERS.
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Secretary of Defense tempers comments with concern about continued attacks and need to build up Iraqi forces. Deadly attacks: Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs within 15 minutes of each other in Baghdad
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Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including
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WASHINGTON -- The number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq in one month surged to its highest level in nearly two years as Americans fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that US commanders warn could lead to civil war.
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The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003 has surpassed 10,000, the Pentagon said Tuesday in a delayed update of its casualty data.
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Washington -- The US force in Iraq is about to expand to its highest level of the war. The Pentagon says the force of 138,000 today will swell to about 150,000 by the middle of next month.
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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 Defense Department&#39;s top civilian today predicted victory for US, coalition and Iraqi forces as they launched large- scale attacks on insurgent positions in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
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A suicide bomber was the likely cause of the deadliest single attack on American troops in Iraq &#151; an explosion at a U.S. base that killed 22 people, the Pentagon's top general said Wednesday.
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Even as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq warning that violence could increase before the Iraqi election in January, car bombers struck
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq to the highest level of the war &#151; even higher than during the initial invasion in March 2003 &#151; in order to bolster security in advance of next month's national elections.
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The United States has expanded its   force in Iraq to 140,000 troops, the most since January and   13,000 more than five weeks ago, the Pentagon said on Thursday,   amid relentless violence in Baghdad and elsewhere.
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WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 2: The Pentagon will increase the number of US troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the US occupation of Iraq began in the spring of 2003, in an effort to reduce violence during elections scheduled next month.
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Amid growing concerns about the stability of Iraq, the Pentagon yesterday announced that it will boost the number of troops there to the highest
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The U.S. military will boost its troops in Iraq to 150,000 this month, the highest level since the war began in March 2003, in order to improve security for scheduled Jan 30. elections, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.