De facto partition takes hold in Iraq
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For months, the Waheed brothers steadfastly endured the killings raging around them in their mainly Sunni district, staying put as fellow Shiites packed up and left.
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Iraqâs second-largest city is now without foreign forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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BAGHDAD Iraqi officials on Sunday said they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s inner circle believed to have been at large, following a gunfight at a medical clinic in a town north of Baghdad.
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Iraq formally took security control of the southern oil province of Basra from British forces on Sunday, paving the way for Britain to sharply reduce its nearly 5,000-strong troop presence.
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President George W. Bush and his advisers like to say that sovereignty has been returned to the Iraqis. But the heart of the Iraqi capital, where the symbols of power are most concentrated, belongs to America.
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The violence occurred on a day when Iraqi officials announced a plan to take over operational command of IraqÂs army from the U.S. next week.
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UMM QASR, Iraq -- Iraq regained sovereignty over its territorial waters yesterday, with the US-led coalition handing over responsibility for safeguarding adjacent seas to the country's navy.
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Defeating the insurgents in Fallujah is critical in the battle for a free Iraq because &#39;&#39;one part of the country cannot remain under the rule
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One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world&#39;s leading powers to contain dangerous states.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a day of conflicting statements, Iraqi authorities first said, then denied they had captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member still at large from Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted regime.
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Iraqi leaders broke a rancorous   stalemate over plans for regional autonomy on Sunday by   agreeing to put off any final decision for at least 18 months   on an issue many fear might tear the country apart in sectarian   civil war.
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Iraq's government has formally taken over the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, a government spokesman said Saturday.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi religious authorities took control of the Imam Ali Mosque in the southern city of Najaf from militiamen loyal to Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, said Sabah Kadhim, senior adviser to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, in a ...
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The Iraqi army 4th division took over operational control of central Salahuddin province on Monday from the U.S.-led coalition, the government said.
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The assault on Falluja has wrested more territory, while a militant group said that it held the Iraqi premier's relatives.
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Iraqi resistance fighters are steadily rolling back the US-led occupation of their country, turning one city after another into a âno-goâ zone for the occupation troops.
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The United States formally handed over   control of Iraq's military to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's   government on Thursday just as rebels unleashed a fresh wave of   deadly bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces.