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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Tuesday that "bold political decisions" will be needed to approve a deal to extend the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq past the end of this year. "We are very close to a satisfactory result," Zebari...(more)
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AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. An Iraqi policeman was also killed in the fighting.
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Troops came under fire while trying to arrest Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Zubaydi and returned fire, killing Zubaydi and his wife, the military says. An Al Qaeda in Iraq leader suspected of executing a Russian official and orchestrating a recent wave of bombings in Baghdad has been...(more)
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 3 -- Turkey deployed warplanes, helicopter gunships and artillery along its border with Iraq as some of the fiercest fighting this year with Kurdish rebels left at least 15 Turkish soldiers dead, military and civilian leaders said Saturday. At least 23 Kurdish...(more)
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 3 -- U.S. soldiers killed a man in Baghdad on Friday whom the military described as a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. A woman was also killed during an exchange of gunfire between the American troops and people in the building where...(more)
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The Army on Monday will unveil an unprecedented doctrine that declares nation-building missions will probably become more important than conventional warfare and defines "fragile states" that breed crime, terrorism and religious and ethnic strife as the greatest threat to U.S. national security. The doctrine, which...(more)
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AFP - Five Taliban and a policeman were killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent suicide bomb attack Sunday wounded three civilians and a soldier elsewhere, police said.
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The brain drain continues as doctors, professors, engineers and other well-educated, affluent or secular Iraqis flee or stay away, nervous about kidnappings and random violence. Naqi Shakir sits on a sagging mattress pushed against a wall. His wife and two daughters perch on tattered sofas and...(more)
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 -- A man detonated a suicide vest inside a home in northern Iraq as U.S. forces were trading gunfire with its occupants, according to the American military. Eleven Iraqis were killed in the operation early Sunday. No U.S. casualties were reported in...(more)
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The remains of Army Sgt. Timothy J. Jacobsen were found in 2006 near the site where his helicopter exploded. Dental records were used in his identification earlier this year. Army Sgt. Timothy J. Jacobsen will finally be laid to rest today in the small Northern California...(more)
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AFP - Turkey's civilian and military leaders held emergency talks Saturday as Ankara vowed strong action after 15 soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels died in clashes sparked by a rebel attack near the Iraqi border.
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Britain's military commander in Helmand has warned that there will be no "decisive victory" in Afghanistan.
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