COMBAT OUTPOST RAWAH, Iraq — U.S. Marines traveling in fast-moving armored columns launched a new raid into a remote stretch of desert in western Anbar province Wednesday.
The drive is a fresh effort to trip up any insurgent attempt at mounting a summer offensive.
The raid, which also includes a special operations element of U.S. Navy SEALs, [...]

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Members to ferry injured in war zone
LANDSTUHL, Germany — Few sounds are more reassuring to wounded troops and their brethren treating them on the battlefield than the churning blades of a medical evacuation helicopter arriving.
This summer, soldiers with Company C, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment will fill that role, ferry wounded and provide medical care [...]

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PATROL BASE LIONS’ DEN, Iraq (Army News Service, Aug. 2, 2007) - One of the United States’ long-standing allies is helping build the Iraqi Army, sometimes from the ground up.
Here there are four British Soldiers serving with troops of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out [...]

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Amid continuing ethnic tensions, Kurdish leaders may have to compromise on the future of Iraq’s oil-rich city
Last Tuesday, Massoud Barzani, the president of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, warned fellow Iraqis that a failure to reach a decision on the future of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk by the end of this year [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug.  3 (Xinhua) — The U.S.  military said Friday that U.S.  and Iraqi joint army forces started a large-scale offensive in the city of Samarra, hunting for al-Qaida militants."
More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen, backed by U.S.  troops, started new operation today to clean Samarra from al-Qaida militants,"
the military said in a [...]

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BAGHDAD: U.S. forces detained 17 suspected insurgents in raids Friday along Iraq’s Tigris River valley, the military said.
The operations targeted the militant group al-Qaida in Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.
In Mosul, five suspects were taken into custody — an alleged terror cell leader and four associates, the military said. The leader was [...]

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Land Warrior Proves Itself in Combat Ops
A program that many see as struggling on life support, Land Warrior has for the first time proven its worth in combat. Though Soldiers might criticize the system’s clunky components and groan at the added weight, Land Warrior is helping Soldiers execute their mission more effectively.
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The last man to be given the George Cross was waiting for a decision last night (Wednesday) on the fate of a proposed guest house in Ashtead for relatives of wounded war heroes.
Captain Peter Norton, 44, who last year received the highest gallantry award for action outside a battlefield, is among the patients hoping their [...]

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BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq anxiously awaited the arrival of its Asian Cup soccer champs Friday, but most Baghdad residents would be barred from the homecoming celebration because of security.
The team, which hasn’t played a home game in 17 years, was due to land at Baghdad’s international airport Friday afternoon. Iraqi officials, led by the minister [...]

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The House voted 229-194 Thursday to pass an East Bay lawmaker’s bill requiring down-time periods for troops between deployments to Iraq.
Authored by Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo, H.R. 3159 — the Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act of 2007 — requires that any regular Armed Forces member or unit deployed to Iraq [...]

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