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MSNBC
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Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region.
In a 46-page question-and-answer doc..
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CNN
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An Iranian official says the government wants the United States to stop its "savage attacks" in Iraq before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. "Under the current circumstances and given the U.S. wid..
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MSNBC
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Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader claimed in an audiotape released Friday that five years of U.S. involvement in Iraq brought only defeat, and said President Bush will be forced to pass the problem to his successor.
Ayman al-Zawahri alleged that by heeding advic..
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SF Gate
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The British military says an airstrike in Basra has killed four gunmen armed with rocket propelled grenades.
British spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says the group was attacked just after midnight by a warplane. He says four gunmen died when their vehicle..
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CNN
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Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and woundi..
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MSNBC
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Petraeus' testimony marks his second time before Congress since he took over the Iraq war effort in early 2007. The four-star general also meets with Bush to advise on a possible delay in drawing down American forces below the 140,000-troop level for the..
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MSNBC
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A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
The Green Zone has come under intense mortar an..
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MSNBC
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Eight soldiers were killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September.
Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where al-Qaida in Iraq has been active. The fiv..
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CNN
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Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.
In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the United States during an unprecedented trip to Iraq. He is demanding that major powers leave the region. Ahmadinejad says the foreign presence in Iraq is an "insult to the regional nations and a h..
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MSNBC
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he told his Turkish counterpart on Thursday that Turkey should end its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as soon as possible, but that the U.S. is making no threats against its NATO ally if it fails to c..
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MSNBC
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Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday.
The ground operation started after Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed suspected rebel targets on Thursday, the milit..
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MSNBC
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for al-Sadr in the Shiite holy..
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CNN
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A pause in the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq after the current reduction is completed in July "makes sense," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in Baghdad Monday. Gates made his comments after meeting with the top U.S. commander in Iraq,..
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MSNBC
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The U.S. military said Monday that it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq -- the deadliest known case of mistaken identity in recent months.
The civilians were killed Saturday near Iskandariyah, 3..
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BBC News
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US bombers and fighter jets have dropped 40,000lb (18,144kg) of bombs on suspected al-Qaeda targets on the edge of Baghdad in a 10-minute air strike.
The attack on the Arab Jabour district, said to be a safe haven for al-Qaeda in Iraq, was part of the..
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BBC News
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The top US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has described the recent fall in violence in Iraq as a "significant accomplishment".
Violence in the country has fallen to its lowest in two-and-a-half years, he told the BBC, but said he w..
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MSNBC
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U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock system, the military said Thursday.
Separately, at least 13 I..
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MSNBC
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The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said. A Turkish official said the troops were still in Iraq by midmorning.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an..
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MSNBC
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Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 100 in a Shiite region that has largely escaped the country’s sectarian bloodshed, authorities said.
Police in Amarah imposed..
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