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Bush Visits Iraq, Says Some Troops Might Come Home

Surprise war council in Iraq points to improving security

Sep 3, 07 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fewer US troops will be needed in Iraq if security conditions continue to improve, said President Bush today during a surprise visit to Iraq. The pronouncement came after meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker–both of whom will be... More »

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Peter Pace • insurgents • Baghdad • Robert Gates • Condoleezza Rice • David Petraeus • Ryan Crocker • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Iraqi Insurgents Enlist Kids for Dirty Work

US detention center adds school for captured child fighters

Aug 27, 07 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi children are playing an amplified role in insurgent attacks, and the US is struggling to cope with the consequences. The ranks of minors detained by American forces have grown from 100 to 800 since March, the LA Times reports. Boys as young as 11 set off roadside bombs for... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Iraqi prisons • children • child soldier • Iraq government

Iraq Detainees Swell by 50%

Most are Sunni, and many say they're motivated by lack of jobs, not jihadism

Aug 25, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Since the January troop surge the number of detainees held by the American military in Iraq has increased by 50%, reports the New York Times. The overwhelming majority of those in custody, nearly 85%, are Sunni. And while Jihadism drives some Iraqi insurgents to plant roadside bombs, for many there... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • insurgents • troop surge • jihad • detainee

Intelligence Community Doubts Iraqi Leadership

Big insurgent offensive may be in the works

Aug 23, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - A National Intelligence Estimate released today reveals that the US intelligence community doubts Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has the ability to lead the country effectively, CNN reports. Coming one day after President Bush defended Maliki in a speech, the report by US intelligence agencies also expresses worry over a possible... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Syria • insurgents • security • intelligence • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq government • extremism • National Intelligence Estimate

Iraq Electric Grid Seized
by Militias

Baghdad increasingly
in darkness as armed bands horde power

Aug 23, 07 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Large swaths of Iraq's power grid have fallen under the control of armed militias, the New York Times reports. The balkanization of power stations worsens an already fragile situation in which insurgents blow up power lines and leave Baghdad without power at the height of a 110-degree summer. More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Baghdad • power grid • electricity • militia

Korean Hostage Talks Fail

Taliban says demands not met; group is considering the fate of 19 captives

Aug 18, 07 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the 19 remaining Korean hostages await news of their fate, negotiations to secure their release have failed, according to a Taliban spokesman. The terror group says its principal demand—the liberation of insurgents being held by coalition forces—was not met; South Korean officials have insisted Seoul has no... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • insurgents • South Korea • Seoul • kidnapping • Kabul • Korean hostages • negotiations • hostage

Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

Deadliest terror attack since fall of Hussein

Aug 16, 07 12:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll from Tuesday's series of suicide truck bombings in northern Iraq may exceed 500, with scores more lying injured in hospitals, CNN reports. The attacks were reportedly launched by al-Qaeda against the Yazidi, a pre-Islamic sect, spotlighting the religious warfare that US troop surge sought to quell. More »

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Iraq • Islam • terrorism • sectarian violence • Sunni • insurgents • troop surge • Iraq death toll • Yazidi • ethnic cleansing • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Bombers Butcher 120+ in Iraq

Attack comes after bold kidnapping of oil ministers

Aug 14, 07 6:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - US helicopters are swooping down to rescue survivors of bomb attacks that butchered at least 120 villagers in northern Iraq today. CNN reports that at least three trucks detonated in residential areas and injured upwards of 150 people, mostly Kurds. TV stations are beseeching townspeople to donate blood as US... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Sunni • insurgents • Kurds • Iraq death toll • bomb

Bomb Derails Russian Train

Authorities claim link to Chechen insurgency

Aug 14, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia suspects terrorism in a bomb that derailed a train on the busy Moscow-to-St. Petersburg line yesterday, reports Reuters. Thirty-eight people were hospitalized and more  treated at the scene, about 170 km from St. Petersburg. The bomb was planted on a bridge; the locomotive and most carriages derailed after crossing. More »

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Russia • terrorism • insurgents • Eastern Europe • Moscow • bomb • Chechnya • train • St. Petersburg

Iraq Security Costs Soar

Aug 12, 07 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Military has paid $548M to two British firms over the past three years to protect engineers working on projects in Iraq—nearly doubling its original budget, according to the Washington Post. A swelling insurgency and shortage of troops are driving up the cost of private security for the... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • US military • engineers • Britain • Iraq war

US Kills 30 in Baghdad

Women and children may counted among the dead

Aug 8, 07 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US killed 30 militants and detained another dozen in an overnight air strike on a military stronghold in a Shiite district of Baghdad. Witnesses counted women and children among the slain, though the US claims all 30 were insurgents linked to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. More »

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Iran • insurgents • Sadr City • Baghdad • Mahdi Army • Nouri al-Maliki • US military • Shia • Muqtada al-Sadr • Iraq war

US Loses 30% of Iraq Weapons

That's 110,000 AK-47s, 80,000 pistols

Aug 6, 07 11:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly a third of US weapons doled out to Iraqi security forces over the past three years are unaccounted for, a GAO report says, and insiders are worried they've fallen into the hands of insurgents. The weapons that the Pentagon can no longer track include 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • insurgents • State Department • weapon • AK 47

Iraq's Power Grid Is Near Collapse

Insurgents target plants, and provinces are disconnecting from the system

Aug 4, 07 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq’s power grid is teetering on the edge of collapse as insurgents destroy almost any attempt to restore power and the country’s fractured government is stalled, the AP reports. With enough power for only half of demand, there have been four nationwide blackouts in the last two days.... More »

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Iraq • energy • insurgents • power grid • power • gas prices

Marine Gets
15 Years for Killing Iraqi

Sergeant was instigator of kidnap, killing to intimidate insurgents

Aug 3, 07 9:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A jury of Iraq veterans sentenced a Marine sergeant to 15 years in prison and dishonorable discharge today for conspiracy to commit murder and unpremeditated murder, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins offered no apology for leading a mission of Marines to kidnap and murder an Iraqi man... More »

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veterans • insurgents • prison • Navy • kidnapping • murder • sentencing • conspiracy • Lawrence Hutchins • Marshall Magincalda • Marine • Iraq war

Cheney: 'I Erred on Insurgency'

VP doesn't back off other Iraq, Afghanistan decisions

Aug 1, 07 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney admitted yesterday that he was wrong when he said the Iraqi insurgency was "in its last throes" in 2005. "My estimate at the time was wrong, it turned out to be incorrect," the VP told CNN's Larry King. He said he had been optimistic that... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Dick Cheney • insurgents • Larry King • vice president • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Body of Second Korean Hostage Found

More will die unless prisoners are freed, kidnappers warn

Jul 31, 07 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan police have found the body of a second Korean hostage killed by the Taliban, Reuters reports. The man was shot in the head, and his body found in a clover field close to the spot where 23 Korean missionaries were kidnapped last week. The kidnappers have threatened to kill... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Kabul • Korean hostages • missionaries • Ghazni • hostage

Corruption Shadows
Iraq Rebuilding

US investigates dozens of fraud cases as pricey projects disintegrate

Jul 30, 07 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - US auditors monitoring the rebuilding process in Iraq are battling forces they compare to "a second insurgency"—corruption and economic mismanagement. The Iraqi government is refusing to handle reconstruction projects worth billions of dollars, and US officials are now investigating more than 50 fraud cases, the BBC reports. More »

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Iraq • fraud • insurgents • Nouri al-Maliki • corruption • reconstruction • Iraq government • Stuart Bowen

Force May Be Used to Free Korean Hostages

In phone call, female hostage pleads for release

Jul 28, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - One of the 22 South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan spoke to a Reuters reporter today, saying she and the other remaining hostages are continually moved to different locations. She appealed to both the Taliban and the Afghan government to free them. A senior Afghan official said force “certainly”... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • Islamic extremists • counterterrorism • Korean hostages • Christian missionaries

Saudi King
Backs Iraq's Sunni Rebels

Ally undermining Bush strategy and fledgling government

Jul 27, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia is working at cross purposes with the Bush administration in Iraq by backing Sunni tribes engaged in sectarian violence there, the New York Times reports. King Abdullah has funded the Sunnis and is allowing insurgents to enter the country, US officials charge. Of up to 80 foreign fighters... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Saudi Arabia • sectarian violence • Sunni • insurgents • King Abdullah • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq war

1 Killed, 8 Freed in Afghanistan Hostage Crisis

Taliban threatens to kill more South Koreans

Jul 25, 07 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban has killed one of the 23 South Koreans it's holding captive today, and vowed to murder the rest by 1 AM local time if the Afghan government does not release insurgents. CNN reports that 8 hostages have been freed, however, while the slain captive's bullet-riddled body was discovered... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • insurgents • South Korea • Hamid Karzai • kidnapping • Kabul • hostage

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