U.S., Iraqi troops control only a third of Baghdad
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U.S.-led soldiers control only about a third of Baghdad, the military said on Monday, almost four months into a security crackdown during which troops are dying at rates not seen for more than two years.
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Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. forces in Iraq on Saturday, becoming the third commander in the war and declaring the American task now was to help Iraqis "gain the time they need to save their country."
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US and Iraqi troops were targeting groups of insurgents in Mosul to gain control of the northern Iraqi city, the military said. The assault on Mosul, Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, follows
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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, Iraq - U.S. troops battled insurgents Tuesday in a major city west of Baghdad after the U.S...
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BAGHDAD -- Thousands of US troops swept house to house through mostly Shi'ite areas virtually unopposed yesterday in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown. But four US soldiers were killed outside of the capital in an area not covered by the operation.
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As the U.S. military sends more troops into Baghdad for stays of 15 months or longer, some Iraqi army soldiers participating in the same counterinsurgency operation are serving under a rotation schedule officially lasting just three months, according to senior officers at the Pentagon and...
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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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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed into the narrowest of its closely packed streets to continue fighting in small bands.
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Just 300 marines patrol the key Sunni city as the Iraqi military takes over.
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U.S. soldiers trying to calm Baghdad say the sprawling Sadr City slum has once again become a haven for anti-American militants &#151; and the source of most of the gunfire and mortars directed at them.
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The top American general in Iraq said   on Wednesday he foresaw Iraqi forces assuming control of the   country's security within 12 to 18 months with "very little"   support from U.S.-led forces.
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Three U.S. troops were killed during fighting in Iraq's Anbar province, a Sunni stronghold west of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Tuesday.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Tuesday finished two weeks of building-by-building sweeps in a Shiite section of Baghdad that had been wracked with sectarian violence, part of a campaign launched this summer to try and pacify the capital.
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CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq  - The U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said on Monday it was too early to judge whether a Baghdad security crackdown was successful because the last of five extra brigades had yet to be deployed.
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From this base in insurgent country south of Baghdad, there are no doubts that the U.S. decision to pour 30,000 additional troops into the fight has had an effect.
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Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city. On Tuesday night