Iraqi Security Forces

Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraqi VP: Security Forces In Need Of 'drastic action'

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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(CNN) -- On a day when car bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in Iraq killed at least 32 people, Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, said "...

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The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathan Gonzalez

Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.

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Iraq: Bombs Aimed At Security Forces Kill 9

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Vice President-elect Joe Biden conferred Monday with Iraqi leaders after a trip to Afghanistan, capping a tour of U.S. battlefronts on...

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Iraq: Is the SOFA viable?

John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Bruhns

The Status of Forces Agreement comes with outrageous stipulations that render our troops helpless, subject them to the Iraqi military tribunals, halt U.S. military operations, and turn vengeful detainees over to the Iraqis.

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Obama's Edge Over McCain on Iraq

John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Bruhns

Senator Obama's plan to leave troop elements behind would have conditions: the Iraqis would have to politically reconcile and end sectarianism. McCain's is to continue on the current path.

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Troop-Withdrawal Advocates Gain an Important Ally

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Byron Williams

Conventional wisdom maintains that the surge is working and that violence is down. But the underlining reasons for much of the violence in Iraq is beyond the surge's control.

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The Real Cost Of Staying The Course

John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Bruhns

If Americans who support this war aren't willing to put their own bodies where their rhetoric is, there can be no sustainability.

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Sam Stein

$20 Billion Later, Iraq Security Only Operating At 10 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Government Accountability Office delivered on Monday what was, in many ways, a sobering report on the current situation in Iraq. Noting that viole...

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Flow of Weapons to Iraq Still a Problem

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Weapons the U.S. provides to Iraqi security forces may still be ending up in the hands of terrorists, insurgents and criminals, the...

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US Sees Slow, Steady Iraq Troop Decline

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — As security conditions improve in Iraq, the U.S. should be able to reduce forces at a slow but consistent pace beyond this summer, ...

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Report: Iraq Security Forces Still Lag

Associated Press | Lolita Baldor | Posted 05.25.2011

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As violence continues to decline in much of Iraq, efforts to shift responsibility to the Iraqi security forces are still lagging, dogged by corruption...

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