Cullman (AP) - At a departure ceremony today, Alabama Governor Bob Riley noted the sacrifices being made by an Alabama National Guard unit headed into a year of duty in the Iraq war.
Riley addressed some 200 soldiers serving in Company C of the 167th Infantry Division. The unit, which includes most of Cullman County’s [...]

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HOHENFELS, Germany — When it deploys to Iraq in August, the 2nd Cavalry (Stryker) Regiment will replace 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which recently moved from Mosul to Baghdad.
The 3rd “Arrowhead” Brigade is working in Baghdad alongside Iraqi forces and extra U.S. troops brought in as part of the “surge” to try to calm sectarian [...]

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There are growing signs that the US is increasingly turning to a new tactic in facing the Sunni-led insurgency in Iraq.

On Sunday, US military commanders and Iraqi provincial officials held a meeting with 130 Sunni tribal sheikhs in Saddam Hussein’s old hometown of Tikrit.
According to the US, the tribal leaders reached a "historic agreement" [...]

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Afghan police and government officials say a high-tech bomb similar to those used by Iraqi militant groups has been found in Kabul.

Intelligence sources in the country said the bomb was discovered next to a road where it is believed to have targeted a high-level government convoy, the BBC reported Monday. The device is designed to [...]

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Sunday hundreds of Texas families gathered to say goodbye to loved ones. 
More than 400 Texas Army National Guardsmen will spend the next year overseas.
Many of the soldiers say the hardest part is leaving their families.
The troops will head to Ft. Bliss before being deployed to Iraq.

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Mahmoudiya, Iraq — The U.S. military says three soldiers were killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing that collapsed a section of a highway bridge south of Baghdad.
Six other soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were injured in the attack, which blocked traffic on Iraq’s main north-south artery.
The U.S. soldiers were manning a checkpoint at the crossing.
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IRBIL, June 11 (KUNA) — Five people were killed, including a police officer, in separate militants’ attacks in Mosul in northern Iraq on Monday, police sources said.
Security forces arrested five suspected insurgents in Kirkuk, also in the northern region, according to the sources. Meanwhile, Kirkuk’s police and other supporting military units launched a raid-and-search operation [...]

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US President George Bush, who is in Sofia on the final leg of an eight-day European tour, was officially welcomed Monday morning with a red carpet ceremony on Alexander Nevksy square.
Despite the unprecedented security measures, hundreds of Sofia citizens gathered on the square in downtown Sofia to see President Bush and his spouse. The [...]

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Paris, June 8 (CTK) - The Czech Republic was among the countries that refused to answer the questions by the Council of Europe’s (CE) Parliamentary Assembly about CIA secret prisons for suspected terrorists, Andrew Drzemczewski from the assembly told CTK.
Drzemczewski is among those who worked on the report about the CIA prisons in Europe, which [...]

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