Al-Qaeda in Iraq 'reduced by 75%'
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Three-quarters of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been destroyed over 2007, the Interior Ministry in Baghdad says.
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Violence in Baghdad has fallen by 50% since the start of 2007 as the surge takes effect, the US army says.
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Information recovered from safe houses when al Qaeda's leader in Iraq was killed six months ago placed the group's leadership in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 27 -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said Saturday that the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has been disrupted and no longer operates in large numbers in any neighborhood of the capital.
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Britain's military deployment in southern Iraq is to be cut by 500 to 5,000 over the next few months, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, just six days after British troops withdrew from their base at Basra Palace.
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U.S. troops uncover journal of al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, which details the group's decline there.
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An alliance of Shi'ite Islamist groups  won the most votes in Iraq's election, but the percentage it  received -- 47.6 percent -- was lower than many expected,  according to the final vote tally released on Sunday.
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U.S. troops killed six suspected al Qaeda terrorists and captured 14 others in operations Saturday and Sunday in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces may  have come close to capturing Iraqi al Qaeda leader Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi in the past two weeks and are weakening his support  network, Iraq's interior minister said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by a higher turnout and less violence than expected in Sunday's Iraqi election, Pentagon authorities have decided to start reducing the level of US forces in Iraq next month by about 15,000 troops, down to about 135,000, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq&#39;s leader says there is now one less militant group operating in his country. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (EE&#39;-yahd ah-LAH&#39;-wee) says key members of a group called Mohammed&#39;s Army are under
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The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government
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US and Iraqi troops subdued the insurgent stronghold of Samarra this weekend, part of a new military push.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi made an unusually strong warning to Iraq's neighbors to crack down on insurgents infiltrating from their territory, saying Friday that Iraq's patience was wearing thin. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for a bold attack on U.S. troops.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces believe the initial combat phase of a major offensive to clear al Qaeda from the Iraqi city of Baquba is nearly complete and any militants left could be confronted in the next 24 hours.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces say they have killed 90 al Qaeda fighters around Baghdad during one of the biggest combined offensives against the Sunni Islamist group since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.