U.S. builds Baghdad garrisons to fight violence
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Barricaded in a small garrison in a Baghdad neighborhood, U.S. soldier Aaron Larson keeps an uneasy eye on the traffic for suicide car bombers.
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The U.S. commander for northern Iraq called for reinforcements yesterday, citing a rise in sectarian attacks and other violence in his region as Iraqi and American forces focus on securing Baghdad.
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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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Iraqi fighters battled U.S. troops in a  Baghdad slum district Tuesday, raising the death toll to 22  Iraqis and one U.S. soldier and threatening to wreck a  cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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A heavy gunfight broke out Monday on a dangerous street in central Baghdad within blocks of the countryâs most fortified facilities, including the US Embassy and interim Iraqi government headquarters.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite militants and U.S. forces battled Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital...
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U.S. and Iraqi troops poured into Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Sunday, encountering no resistance in the one-time Sadr City combat zones but testing the Shiites' commitment to the U.S.-promoted campaign to drive militants from the capital.
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Thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi  forces pursued a campaign of raids on suspected guerrilla bases  in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on  Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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The project will ring Baghdad with trenches and set up traffic checkpoints to control movement in and out of the city.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people, officials said...
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In an effort to restore security in Baghdad, the U.S. military plans to move at least three more battalions of American soldiers into the Iraqi capital, a senior Pentagon official said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed deeper Thursday into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad &#151; where cars rigged with explosives greeted their advance &#151; while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran.
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In the three months since thousands of U.S. forces poured into Baghdad to quash escalating violence, far more American troops have died in the volatile western Anbar province than in the capital city.
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Baghdad has been waiting for a month now &#151; waiting through a series of devastating bombings, through hundreds more deaths &#151; for the start of a third U.S.-Iraq security drive to stanch the sectarian bloodshed.
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The U.S. military buildup has brought some relief from bombs and bullets to Baghdad's shattered neighborhoods. But it has failed so far to reach its overarching purpose: getting Iraqis to agree to the political compromises that Washington consider crucial for any lasting stability.
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How insurgents turned a neighborhood into a battle zone in which U.S. troops have to fight for their lives