Top Iraqi General: Troops Willing to Fight
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People stand around a burning supply truck that was a part of a US military convoy which came under roadside bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday Dec. 26 2004.
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Defense officials are not ruling out the possibility that they will need more U.S. troops to secure January's elections in increasingly violent Iraq, but believe Iraqi and perhaps international troops may be able to do the job instead, a top general said Wednesday.
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The U.S. Army expects to keep its troop strength in Iraq at the current level of about 120,000 for at least two more years, according to the Army's top operations officer.
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Pursuing the insurgents is hard enough. But Iraq's top general has to walk a difficult line of battling militias without alienating their political leaders
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The United States is unlikely to   begin cutting its troops in Iraq until at least mid-2007 as   they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into   civil war, a senior general said on Tuesday.
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U.S. troop levels in Iraq will likely remain at the current number -- more than 140,000 -- through next spring, the senior U.S. commander in the Middle East said today.
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The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year -- even after a planned drawdown, a U.S. general said on Friday.
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U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers do not   want to leave other parts of their country to serve in Baghdad,   leaving security efforts in the violent capital short by 3,000   Iraqi troops, a senior U.S. commander said on Friday.
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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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The senior US general in Iraq expresses concern about the ability of Iraqi forces to cope with election security.
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The top American general in Iraq said   on Wednesday he foresaw Iraqi forces assuming control of the   country's security within 12 to 18 months with "very little"   support from U.S.-led forces.
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A prominent hardline Iraqi Sunni cleric said Friday he was willing to meet with top Shiite religious leaders to end sectarian violence and help move Iraq out of its internal crisis.
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The new top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday that the stakes are high but the situation is "not hopeless" as American and Iraqi forces move to quell spiraling sectarian violence in the country.
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The commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division said his troops face an uncertain mission in Iraq after the country's historic elections, which many Iraqis hope will usher in democracy and hasten the departure of 150,000 American troops.
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The outgoing top U.S. general in Iraq diplomatically aired his differences with the commander in chief on Thursday, telling lawmakers that President Bush has ordered thousands more troops into Iraq than needed to tamp down violence in Baghdad.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq briefed the United States' closest ally on the course of the war Tuesday, praising Britain's plan to give Iraqi security forces control in Basra but warning against leaving the country too soon.
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The conflict in Iraq is changing from a fight against U.S.-led coalition forces to an internal struggle for political and economic power, the top U.S. general in Iraq told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday.