A General Returns From Iraq: "I Don't Feel Like I'm Leaving on a High Note"
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In an interview with Time.com, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the man in charge of combat operations in Iraq, reflects on the troubled mission
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad feels the tension at a road checkpoint in the Iraqi capital
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A week ago today Gen. David H. Petraeus started his rounds on Capitol Hill, reporting that security in Iraq was improving to the point that a small number of troops could begin coming home by year's end.
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Cuts in U.S. troop levels in Iraq will not derail recent security gains, but the Iraqi government must move quicker to take advantage of the falls in violence, a senior U.S. general said on Sunday.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed hope yesterday, but did not explicitly predict, that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of President Bush's second term.
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When Sgt. Jose Bermudez returned from Iraq early this year, he came home to a new baby and a troubled marriage.
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Micah Garen, the American journalist freed by Shiite militants in Iraq after nine days in captivity, said Saturday that it feels "really good to be back home" and thanked his supporters in his first public comments since returning to the United States.
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For weeks, Chief Warrant Officer Jason DeFrenn's family awaited his homecoming, a trip planned as much more than a simple respite from his second tour in Iraq: The nine-year Army veteran was returning to South Carolina to help his wife give birth.
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Retaking Fallujah has &quot;broken the back of the insurgency,&quot; the US commander in Iraq said Thursday - an assessment far more optimistic than other analysts&#39; views and even a Marine Corps intelligence report.
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They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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Although the Iraqi city of Fallujah is secure now that Marines there control the city, it is not yet safe for residents to return, the commander
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It had been a pretty glum day for Spec. Brian Parker, who along with the other members of his National Guard unit said goodbye to their families and departed on a charter flight for a long-term stint in Iraq.
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A decorated soldier who deserted from the U.S. Army to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq has crossed back into the United States after fleeing to Canada almost two years ago.
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Many US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer mental health problems, a study shows.
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The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Baghdad to help millions of displaced Iraqis return home, showing a strengthened U.N. commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.
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The defense secretary's trip comes at a time when critics have accused him of being insensitive to the welfare of the troops.
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They may be disappointed, but families of troops in Iraq should not be surprised that 3,500 soldiers who were expected home next month have been ordered to remain overseas for