Attacks in Baghdad fall 80 percent: Iraq military
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Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital can soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed into  Samarra on Friday to wrest control of the northern town back  from insurgents, and the American military said 80 militants  were killed in hours of fierce street fighting and air strikes.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 1 -- A string of closely timed explosions killed at least 72 people and wounded 236 in a Shiite Muslim area of Baghdad on Thursday night, one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in months despite the launch of a new security plan to stanch the sectarian carnage.
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SAMARRA, IRAQ - At least 80 people were killed and 100 injured when US and Iraqi forces pounded the city of Samarra Friday in a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a seven-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50 percent in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate
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Some 80,000 Iraqis have fled their   homes and registered with the government as refugees over the   past two months, data showed on Thursday, taking the total in   seven months of sectarian violence to a quarter of a million.
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Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a mosque attack last year 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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The number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi security forces has declined significantly in the five days since millions of Iraqis braved threats to vote, the U.S. military said Friday, but the insurgency remains dangerous.
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US and Iraqi forces control less than one-third of Baghdad, according to a security review.
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Civilian deaths and car bombs have fallen sharply in Baghdad since a U.S.-backed crackdown began a month ago, but attacks outside the capital were rising as militants change tactics, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.
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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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The blasts killed at least 60 and wounded more than 120. In Baghdad, a group of about 30 insurgents executed three election officials in the midst of morning traffic.
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U.S. forces hope to hand over half of Baghdad to Iraqi security control by the end of 2008, after violence in Iraq dropped to its lowest level since January 2006, the No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq said on Wednesday.
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Eight Iraqi National Guard members have been wounded in a mortar attack on their base in Baghdad, police said. Police said five mortars landed on the base in the al-Waziriya neighborhood of the capital on Thursday.
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There has been a dramatic drop in the number of Iraqi civilians killed, new figures showed, a fact underlined by boisterous New Year celebrations in some parts of Baghdad that saw fireworks lighting up the night sky.
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Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.