The U.S. Army quietly entered a new era earlier this summer when it sent the first armed ground robots into action in Iraq.
So far, the robot army’s entrance into the war has been a trickle rather than an invasion.
Only three of the special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system (SWORDS) have been deployed so [...]

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Troops work in one of Baghdad’s riskiest neighborhoods
BAGHDAD — The latest losses are so recent that Staff Sgt. Trenton Tharp still expects to see his friends walk around the corner. He knows they are gone — Tharp is a soldier after all, and death is nothing new. But, for a little while longer at least, [...]

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Gates: Troop Drawdown Possible
Gates declined to predict that a drawdown of U.S. military forces would happen by year’s end. He cited some progress in reducing violence in western Iraq. "It’s a possibility," Gates hedged, when asked if he considered a troop drawdown this year a "good possibility" or would bet on it.
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TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug.  6 (Xinhua) — An American helicopter attacked a cluster of houses in a town in Salahudin province in north of Baghdad on Monday, killing six people and wounding 35 others, a provincial police source said.
A U.S.  airborne force conducted a predawn raid on the southern part of the town of Duluiyah, 90 [...]

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Fresh violence in Iraq has left at least 37 people dead with 28 of them killed by a suicide truck bomb in the northern town of Tal Afar, police say.
The blast hit a mainly Shia district of the mixed town and injured about 40, with some feared trapped under rubble.
A curfew was imposed across [...]

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He feels like he doesn’t belong, this man with a blond mustache and hair the color of straw, trying to blend in a sea of black.
Alongside his wife, the man shuffles his cowboy boots toward the back of the hilltop chapel where hundreds have gathered to memorialize a young soldier’s life.
The grief is palpable, [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn warned the United States and its allies on Sunday that the militant network would target diplomats and embassies in retaliation for U.S.-led actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda released a one-hour, 17-minute video showing a computer-animated depiction of the 2006 suicide attack on a U.S. diplomatic [...]

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BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (KUNA) — The US Army reported that four of its soldiers serving within the Multi-National Force in Iraq were killed in different incidents in the Iraqi capital this week.
An army statement said two soldiers were killed in a combat operation on Sunday. A third soldier was killed earlier on Saturday in the [...]

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