US says violence in Baghdad on decline
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BAGHDAD - The second-ranking US commander in Iraq said yesterday that violence was down in Baghdad following the seven-month security operation in Baghdad, but that too many civilians are still dying.
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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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Rockets and mortars rained down Thursday on an upscale, mostly Shiite area of Baghdad, collapsing an apartment house, shattering shops and killing at least 31 people &#151; part of the rising sectarian violence President Bush has vowed to stop.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are meeting little resistance as they sweep through Baghdad, a U.S. officer said on Friday, a day after Iraq's president said a Shi'ite militia had ordered its leaders to leave the country.
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A series of bombings and shootings killed at least 33 people Tuesday, most in the Baghdad area, as more American soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital in a make-or-break bid to quell sectarian violence.
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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 Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted the violence in Iraq is worsening, a harsher view of the insurgency than George W. Bush, who said at the weekend the country was making steady progress toward elections.
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U.S. plans to add military muscle to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad will achieve only limited success without a political agreement among Iraq's religious and sectarian factions on the future of the country.
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Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the first year of the American invasion, finally opening a window for reconciliation among rival sects
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the insurgency in Iraq is getting worse. With violence continuing in several Iraqi provinces, Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on several television networks
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says the situation in Iraq is getting worse, as US forces continue to battle insurgents.
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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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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told lawmakers on Monday his government had stopped Iraq sliding into civil war and said violence in and around Baghdad had plunged under a U.S.-backed security crackdown.
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BAGHDAD -- Residents of Baghdad's Sadr City district slowly began to turn in weapons yesterday, the first step in a process that US and Iraqi officials hope will lead to a permanent end to fighting in the insurgent-controlled slum.
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By key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq - numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks - the situation has grown worse since summer.
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BAGHDAD -- The relative lull in violence is a promising sign that the Baghdad security plan is off to a good start, the Iraqi prime minister said yesterday, while a top US military official cautioned that it might be a temporary letup as militant organizations assess the new measures and gear up to fight back.
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Violent deaths among civilians in Iraq   may have fallen by a quarter last month, statistics indicated   on Friday, despite a bloody week in Baghdad that ended with 70   dead in a series of explosions late on Thursday.