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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
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DEBKAfile
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July 14, 2007, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner reported Wednesday that in two months, the offensive had hit the jhadists in and around Baghdad, killing or capturing 26 high-level al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and disrupting their networks and safe havens.
DEBKAfile
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July 13, 2007, 9:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Democratic Senator amplified: "A growing number of Republicans are now speaking about the failed strategy in Iraq, and that's good." But even while calling on President Bush to pull most troops out of Iraq by next April, "many troops" must remain to "do counterterrorism, to protect our assets in ...
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July 12, 2007, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an open letter to the Quartet's new Middle East envoy Tony Blair, the foreign ministers of France, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Malta, Romania and Slovenia demand an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more concessions from Israel.
DEBKAfile
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July 9, 2007, 10:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since April 2007, George W. Bush has had on his desk an exit plan from Iraq, built around the phased pull-back by early 2008 of a little more than half of the 170,000 or so troops there at present. Around 50-70,000 soldiers are to be redeployed to large strategic fortified ...
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July 9, 2007, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
Among them were four US soldiers killed by roadside bombs near their patrols in Baghdad and two Marines who died in combat in the western Anbar province Thursday. The British troops died in Basra, one attacked in an overnight patrol with arrests, and a second in an accident.
DEBKAfile
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July 7, 2007, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Insurgents in the predominantly Shiite region directed artillery shells and rockets at British bases and bomb, rockets and automatic gunfire at patrols. No word on casualties.
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July 4, 2007, 8:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
US military spokesman Brig. Gen Kevin J. Bergner also accused Tehran Monday of using the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah as a proxy to arm and train Shiite insurgents in Iraq.
He disclosed that captured insurgents had admitted senior officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guards al Qods unit, in charge of terrorist operations ...
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July 3, 2007, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
US-led forces raided Shiite strongholds in Baghdad's Sadr City before dawn Saturday, killing 26, detaining 17. Military spokesman reported significant resistance to the forces from suspected terrorists with close ties to Iranian terror networks. US troops are also leading attacks on insurgent strongholds linked to al Qaeda around the capital ...
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June 28, 2007, 9:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday, more than 10,000 troops with heavy armored Stryker and Bradley vehicles and air support embarked on the Baquba operation in hopes of the success achieved in Anbar, yet with no illusions about vanquishing al Qaeda once and for all.
What has happened before is that US military successes in ...
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June 27, 2007, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Clad in a bomb vest, the killer blew himself up in the lobby of the al-Mansour Hotel in Baghdad where the sheiks were meeting.
At least 10 Iraqi policemen and prisoners were killed Monday in the Baiji police station north of Baghdad when its outer wall was rammed by a suicide ... 
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June 25, 2007, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four US servicemen died in a single strike northwest of Baghdad, an airman in Tikrit and 2 soldiers in eastern Baghdad. A British soldier also died of his wounds in Basra. Two of the al Qaeda prisoners were senior operatives.
Early Saturday, US forces on raids in Baghdad's Sadr City ...
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June 17, 2007, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq commander David Petraeus announced this Saturday, June 16, after meeting visiting US defense secretary Robert Gates on his fourth unannounced visit to Baghdad. The operation will put forces into key areas that al Qaeda is thought to be using as bases for some car bombs. Petraeus said "the surge" ...
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June 15, 2007, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two minarets of the famous Shiite Golden Dome shrine were blown up early Wednesday.
This time no casualties were reported. The Askariya dome itself was destroyed Feb. 2006 in a bombing blamed on al Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents, which sparked Iraq's worst wave of sectarian violence. Since then, the mosque has been ...
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June 13, 2007, 9:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
In Baghdad, at least five Iraqis died in overnight clashes between US troops and Shiite militiamen in the Shiite Fidhililyah area at the edge of the city. They erupted when a US military convoy was attacked near the offices of the radical Muqtada Sadr.
DEBKAfile
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June 12, 2007, 7:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The blast brought down an army checkpoint known as Checkpoint 20 on the overpass, one of two crossing Iraq's main north-south highway east of Mahmoudiya. A US army quick reaction force and a private security firm worked for 45 minutes to pull the trapped men from the rubble. Earlier, a ...
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June 12, 2007, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The independent US senator urged "aggressive military action against Iran" to stop them killing Americans in Iraq. "To me," he said, "that would include a strike over the border into Iran where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back ...
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June 9, 2007, 2:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Col. Ahmad was not at home when his family was slaughtered Friday. Diyala is the most violent province in Iraq. Up to 70 percent is believed to be under al Qaeda control.
A total of at least 24 people were killed, 42 injured, in attacks in central, western and northern Iraq ... 
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June 8, 2007, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
A voice-over claimed the captured US soldiers were dead. There is no further indication on the 10-minute video of the condition or the two men, Spc, Alex R. Jimenez, 25, and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19. The message in Arabic above the photos says: Bush is the reason for the ...
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June 4, 2007, 8:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
All but one were killed by roadside bombs. Five were killed Friday.
May saw the deaths of 127 American soldiers in Iraq. In the Shiite district of Balad Ruz in Diyala province, 10 people were killed by a parked car bomb, more than a score were injured. Saturday, Iraqi police reported ...
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June 1, 2007, 10:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
This was suggested by Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari who also spoke of the possible connivance of the local police which is heavily infiltrated by Shiite militias. Speaking to the BBC, the Anglican Vicar of Baghdad Canon Andrew White linked the abductions to the capture and death of a Mehdi ...
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