U.S. commander says no military solution to Iraq
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces cannot solve the problem of violence in Iraq without political action and reconciliation with some militant groups, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.
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Moktada al-Sadr said the push to quell violence in Baghdad was doomed to fail as long as it was directed by the U.S. military.
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The chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday denied a newspaper report that he will urge President George W. Bush to cut U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States needs 3,000 more Iraqi forces to join the battle in Baghdad, but requests have not been met because Iraqi soldiers are reluctant to leave their home regions, the commander of US forces in Baghdad said yesterday.
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The commander of U.S. Marines in Iraq   denied on Tuesday his troops had lost the vast province they   patrol, after newspapers said his intelligence chief had   written the grimmest report from the field since the war began.
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The U.S. military reported three more combat deaths on Wednesday after the man tapped to take over command of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Americans may have to lower their expectations for Iraq.
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A senior U.S. commander in central Iraq said yesterday that a reduction of U.S. forces in his region this year would be "a giant step backwards," allowing insurgents to quickly return and jeopardizing the military's "tactical momentum" in reducing violence.
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The U.S. military denied reports on   Saturday that Iraq plans to dig a giant ring of trenches around   the city of Baghdad.
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The U.S. commander of a new offensive north of Baghdad, reclaiming insurgent territory day by day, said Sunday his Iraqi partners may be too weak to hold onto the gains. The Iraqi military does not even have enough ammunition, said Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek: "They're not quite up to the job yet."
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops
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WASHINGTON -- Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of US military forces, the top American commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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A U.S.-backed Iraqi security plan seen as a last-ditch attempt to halt violence in Baghdad will not produce results overnight, a U.S. general warned on Sunday, after a one-ton suicide truck bomb killed 135 people.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld   said on Wednesday that American operations in Iraq would end   when Iraqi security forces were able to take over the job, but   he would not estimate when that might be.
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U.S. or Iraqi forces control more than half of Baghdad's neighborhoods while the rest still experience high levels of fighting and sectarian violence, the U.S. commander in Iraq's capital said on Friday.
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The new U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, warned on Saturday that failure to stabilize the country would condemn Iraq to continued civil strife.
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A U.S. commander in Iraq believes it would not be possible to withdraw troops from his region south and east of Baghdad by year's end. Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said a pullout would be a "giant step backward."
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It could be next spring before U.S. troops in Iraq can hand over areas gained in their latest offensive to Iraqi forces and start to draw down, a top American commander said on Friday.