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August 09, 2010 - The National Guard likely will continue to play a significant role in overseas contingency operations for the foreseeable future, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told 1,800 Guard members Aug. 8.
August 08, 2010 - Iraqi security forces are on track to assume full operations and prepared to deal with spates of violence by extremists intent on derailing Iraqi progress, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said this morning.
May 17, 2010 - Members of the 200th Rapid Engineering Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer Squadron have arrived here to draw down the 557th Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron from Iraq.
December 19, 2009 - The teamwork between Iraqi and American security forces is behind the vast improvements in Iraq, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during a news conference here today.
October 09, 2009 - Before an Iraqi air force lieutenant can begin pilot training at Kirkuk Air Base, he must first prove he have achieved one of their air force's core values: learning to comprehend and speak English.
August 18, 2009 - The U.S. Army tradition of recognizing newly promoted noncommissioned officers to the NCO corps is through an NCO induction ceremony, a time-honored tradition for the U.S. Army, which has been shared with the new Iraqi Army.
April 14, 2009 - U.S. soldiers could remain in Mosul, Iraq, past June 30, when Iraqi forces are scheduled to assume full security responsibilities for the entire country, a senior U.S. military commander in the area said today.
February 04, 2009 - Iraq’s government and its security forces deserve praise for overseeing the successful and mostly violence-free provincial elections that were held countrywide Jan. 31, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today.
January 12, 2009 - The Marine Corps is moving toward a different mission in Iraq as it progresses further into the early months of 2009.
December 18, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates hopes commanders with a “vested interest” in the future role of U.S. forces in Iraq can share their views directly with the incoming president, a Pentagon official said today.
December 06, 2008 - The war in Iraq isn’t over, but a successful end is in sight, thanks to hard work between the United States and Iraq, President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address today.
October 31, 2008 - A group of American and Iraqi firefighters have already developed a working relationship that protects people, structures and aircraft here at Baghdad International Airport.
September 03, 2006 - The American flag was lowered in a brief ceremony and passed to Army Lt. Col. Stephen Quinn, the 44-year-old battalion commander of 3rd Battalion, 321 Field Artillery Regiment from Virginia Beach, Va., and the outgoing commander of Abu Ghraib security.
August 20, 2006 - The second mass murder trial of Saddam Hussein is set to open this week in Baghdad. The former Iraqi dictator will go on trial along with six of the top ranking members of his former regime.
July 28, 2006 - The top U.S. general in Iraq had hoped to be able to recommend what he called a fairly significant reduction in U.S. troops in the country this year. Instead, Donald Rumsfeld approved the general's request for 3,500 more troops.
June 20, 2006 - The U.S. military in Iraq says coalition forces have recovered the bodies of two American soldiers missing since an attack on their checkpoint Friday.
March 13, 2006 - A high-tech Defense Department identification system has linked some captured terrorists to previous crimes and prevented their release from overseas detention facilities.
November 30, 2005 - As Iraq's security forces gain capability and take on more and tougher missions, they're winning the confidence of the Iraqi people and setting the stage for coalition forces to stand down, President Bush said today in Annapolis, Md.
September 15, 2005 - The first and the deadliest of the six car bombings which shook Baghdad throughout the day, targeted an Iraqi police station in the south Baghdad neighborhood of Doura. At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed and 15 civilians wounded in the blast.
July 27, 2005 - A fairly substantial withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could take place next spring or summer if the insurgency doesn't grow.
June 24, 2005 - When I came home from Iraq a couple of months ago, I kept the promise I made while I was still there: I wouldn't watch the news, and I'd step away from the war, ignoring the events that had consumed my life 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
April 20, 2005 - Iraq's president says the bodies of 50 people who were held hostage in recent days have been recovered from the Tigris River, and he has vowed action against the killers.
March 28, 2005 - A 3-ton cache of TNT and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition are off the streets of Iraq following an Iraqi army raid near Jurf al-Sakher.
January 14, 2005 - Although Soldiers might be separated from the rest of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, housed at Camp Al-Nasr (Camp Liberty), the split promotes another type of relationship -- closer interaction with the people of Iraq.
November 15, 2004 - The battle against insurgents and terrorists being waged by U.S. troops, Iraqi military units and coalition allies in Fallujah, Iraq, is decisive, according to the commander of the U.S. Central Command.
October 28, 2004 - Recently returned from a trip to Asia, Secretary of State Colin Powell says resumption of the Six-Party Talks on making the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free depends on North Korea.
October 26, 2004 - Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is accusing the United States and its coalition partners of being partly to blame for Saturday's deadly ambush of dozens of Iraqi soldiers. US defense officials are rejecting that charge.
October 24, 2004 - The bodies of as many as 49 soldiers with the new Iraqi army were discovered northeast of Baghdad late Saturday. The soldiers were ambushed by insurgents who executed them as they lay on the ground.
October 10, 2004 - t least 18 people, including an American soldier, were killed following two car bombings in Baghdad. The attacks occurred while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq to speak with military leaders and U.S. Marines.
September 21, 2003 - The Coalition Provisional Authority is building a new army for Iraq that will be a non-political, professional force for national unity, says Walter Slocombe, the Coalition's Special Advisor on Security and Defense, speaking at a Pentagon news briefing.
July 07, 2003 - Two Americans died yesterday following attacks and another died as a result of an explosion early this morning. All three were members of the 1st Armored Division and all the attacks took place in Baghdad.
June 18, 2003 - The U.S. military says it has captured Abid Hamid Mahmud, the number four man on the most wanted list of Iraqis. Mr. Mahmud was the personal secretary for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
April 13, 2003 - U.S. marines trying to help neighborhoods get police and hospital services back up and running find themselves helping Iraqis to clear their schools, hospitals, and even their backyards of weapons left there by Iraqi troops.
April 12, 2003 - Coalition forces in Iraq are using a specially created deck of 55 playing cards to identify the ''most wanted'' members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
April 04, 2003 - U.S. troops have occupied most of Baghdad's international airport and are continuing to advance on Saddam Hussein's seat of power. But it remains unclear how soon a full scale offensive on the Iraqi capital would be launched.
March 30, 2003 - The United States has launched new bomb and missile strikes on Baghdad. Meanwhile, the embattled Iraqi government has turned to unconventional means, including suicide bombings, in its bid to thwart the progress of coalition forces towards the capital.
March 29, 2003 - Iraq is denying allegations by coalition officials that Iraqi soldiers are disguising themselves as civilians. Meanwhile, Iran and Syria have strongly denied charges by a top U.S. official that they are getting involved in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
March 29, 2003 - A suicide bomber in central Iraq has killed four American soldiers as coalition warplanes continue to pound Baghdad. Officials say a taxi stopped at a checkpoint on the highway north of Najaf and waved for help. When soldiers approached the car exploded.
March 26, 2003 - The Pentagon is reporting several hundred Iraqis forces have been killed after U.S. troops came under fierce attack south of Baghdad Tuesday.
March 18, 2003 - President Bush delivered an ultimatum that Saddam Hussein and his sons have 48 hours to leave Iraq.
March 16, 2003 - Israel says it will retaliate if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launches an attack against the Jewish state during any U.S.-led military strike against Iraq.
February 06, 2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has provided the United Nations with what he calls irrefutable proof that Iraq is continuing to build and hide weapons of mass destruction, while maintaining links to terrorist groups including al-Qaida.
December 23, 2002 - An American Predator unmanned aerial vehicle was assumed lost today over southern Iraq.
