Anbar Called Secondary to U.S. Efforts in Baghdad
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American troops face "significant challenges" in western Iraq's volatile Anbar region -- the deadliest province for U.S. forces -- but military efforts there are secondary to the priority of quelling sectarian unrest in Baghdad, the second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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The U.S. command announced Saturday that it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell the sectarian violence sweeping the capital, and a U.S. official said more American soldiers would follow as the military gears up to take the streets from gunmen.
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The U.S. general in charge of Baghdad  said Tuesday it would be at least another eight months before  the Iraqi capital had enough police, contradicting previous  U.S. claims that numbers were sufficient.  Maj. Gen. Pete Chiarelli, whose 1st Cavalry Division is  responsible for security in Baghdad and its suburbs -- an area  of about six million people -- said there were currently about  15,000 people working for the capital's force.
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A U.S.-backed Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad will take months and "sensational attacks" will continue but there have already been encouraging signs of progress, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.
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British troops could be moved to Baghdad to provide cover for American troops as they carry out offensive operations against insurgents in Fallujah and elsewhere in the country, media reports said Saturday.
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US military officials say eight American marines were killed and nine others injured Saturday in al-Anbar, west of Baghdad. Also Saturday, seven people died and 16 others were
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The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said...
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Foreign minister to remind the US of its responsibility to help build Iraqi forces.
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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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A U.S. Marine was killed in action in  the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad Sunday, the second  Marine to be killed in the area that day, the U.S. military  said Monday.
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The President learned something on his surprise Iraq trip: troop morale in Anbar Province may be high, but they are tired
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The U.S. military is taking a cue from its Anbar success and enlisting the help of Shi'ite tribes. Will the strategy take hold?
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More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.
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A powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader in Iraq called on Friday for U.S.-backed, mainly Sunni neighborhood patrols to be brought under tight government control with a more balanced sectarian makeup.
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The American military and Iraqi soldiers continued today to try to secure the heart of this city rife with insurgents.
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A senior American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.S.-led military operations are "stifling" the insurgency in western Anbar province but are not strong enough to defeat it.
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BAGHDAD -- Three months after the start of the security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.