Iraq report sees "grave and deteriorating" crisis
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The United States should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, an elite panel recommended on Wednesday.
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It gives a bleak assessment of the trajectory in Iraq and suggests that most U.S. combat troops should be withdrawn in the next 16 months
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The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend to President Bush that he threaten to reduce economic and military support for Iraq's government if it fails to meet specific benchmarks intended to improve security in the country, a source familiar with the report said yesterday.
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The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq doesn't say whether the war-ravaged nation has reached a state of civil war, but it cites Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence as the primary source of conflict there, government sources familiar with the report said Friday.
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Iraq could plunge into still deeper chaos unless billions of dollars the international community has pledged for rebuilding are spent quickly, the Baghdad government will warn this week.
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_ Secretary of State Colin Powell sees the situation in Iraq ``getting worse&#39;&#39; as planned elections approach, and the top US military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence ahead.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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WASHINGTON -- The effort to resurrect vital government services in Iraq has been hampered by ethnic and sectarian purges among the ranks of civil servants, a high turnover rate for senior administrative officials, and a lack of comprehensive planning on the part of both Iraqis and the United States, according to an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq ...
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A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate provides a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.
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A new U.S. intelligence report predicted on Friday that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further unless efforts are made to reverse conditions, a portion of the report said.
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A U.S. intelligence report before  the Iraq war warned that an American invasion could lead to  rogue elements fighting the new Iraqi government and U.S.  forces, sources familiar with the report said on Tuesday.
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Congressmen are expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq now ranks as the second-most unstable country in the world, worse than war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti, and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed States index issued yesterday by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace.
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Radical action is needed to save a "hollowed-out and fatally weakened" Iraqi state and ease violence that a new Pentagon report says is at an all-time high, a prominent think-tank warned on Tuesday.
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Iraq is currently the deadliest country in the world for journalists, report says.
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The State Department's resources and morale are being drained by the need to keep providing personnel for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an independent report issued yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- A muchanticipated US intelligence report warned yesterday that the rising violence in Iraq could permanently tear the country apart and, in the worst case, create a state of anarchy with no legitimate authority that combines "extreme ethnosectarian violence with debilitating intragroup clashes."