Uneasy start to Baghdad plan
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BAGHDAD -- The engineer stood aside as Iraqi and American soldiers rifled through his daughter's wardrobe and peered under her bed. He did not mind when they confiscated the second clip for his AK-47, because he knew it could be easily replaced. He demurred when asked about insurgent activity in the neighborhood, afraid to be stamped an informant and driven ...
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US and Iraqi forces control less than one-third of Baghdad, according to a security review.
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A lack of Iraqi government organization and the city's ethnic mix complicates preparations for suppressing the insurgency
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Iraq is a nation gripped by fear and struggling to meet security and political goals by September, U.S. officials said Thursday from Baghdad, dashing hopes in Congress that the country might turn a corner this summer. One general said not to expect a solid judgment on the U.S. troop buildup until November.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad yesterday as Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command -- indications that the much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up nearly a month after it was announced.
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.
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BAGHDAD -- American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the two-week-old Baghdad security plan.
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Iraqi leaders hope to flesh out a deal to end sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad when they meet again on Tuesday and conceded a four-point plan, drafted under U.S. pressure, was still short on vital detail.
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The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that, while stiff at times, was much less than had been
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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IraqÂs leader unveiled a plan to defuse sectarian crises, but it was unclear whether it could stem the increasingly brazen violence.
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As anxiety mounted over a feared wave of insurgent violence during the sacred Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins tomorrow, two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed
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A US request for British troops to move up to Baghdad to allow American forces to be pulled out for a possible attack on Fallujah is prompting fears from both troops and politicians
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BAGHDAD-- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support for the Baghdad security plan during an unannounced visit to the capital yesterday, but she reminded Iraq's leaders that Americans were growing increasingly frustrated with the rising death toll and costs of the war.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to a joint session of Congress Thursday as an increasingly violent insurgency complicates his country&#39;s plans for its first Democratic elections.
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Rivalries and violence between Shiite factions are threatening to overshadow progress U.S. forces have made against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists just weeks before the top American commander and diplomat in Iraq report to Congress.
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Violence in Iraq threatens to overshadow the start of Tony Blair&#39;s party conference as the prime minister struggles to turn attention to the domestic agenda ahead of the next election, expected next year.