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Army criticizes itself in Iraq invasion report

The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.

Time.com: Removing Pace, Clearing the Decks

With the ouster of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the original Iraq war team is now all gone -- with one exception

Ivins: Stand up against the surge

The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop the war is not to make George W. Bush look like the dumbest president ever. People have done dumber things. What were they thinking when they bought into the Bay of Pigs fiasco? How dumb was the Egypt-Suez war? How massively stupid was the entire war in Vietnam? Even at that, the challenge with this misbegotten adventure is that WE simply cannot let it continue.

Top U.S. general: We can stabilize Iraq

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Wednesday he is optimistic that "we can stabilize Iraq."

Suicide bomber kills 10 on Baghdad bus

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a bus Monday in northeastern Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 17 others, emergency police said.

Top commander in D.C. for talks amid Iraq concerns

Gen. John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command, arrived Friday in Washington for meetings with President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

Iraq to close offices of Kurdish separatist group

The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it will shut down the offices of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in an effort to maintain good relations with Turkey.

Head of U.S. command: Iraq civil war possible

Under tough questioning from U.S. senators, the head of U.S. Central Command acknowledged Thursday that Iraq could descend into civil war.

Ambassador warns of Iraq civil war

The UK's outgoing ambassador to Baghdad has warned government ministers that a civil war in Iraq is more likely than a successful transition to democracy, according to a news report.

Abizaid: Plan to cut troops on track

The U.S. is still on track to reduce its military troops in Iraq, so long as the effort to form a unity government there does not collapse, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday.

Army criticizes itself in Iraq invasion report

The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.

Time.com: Removing Pace, Clearing the Decks

With the ouster of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the original Iraq war team is now all gone -- with one exception

Ivins: Stand up against the surge

Top U.S. general: We can stabilize Iraq

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Wednesday he is optimistic that "we can stabilize Iraq."

Suicide bomber kills 10 on Baghdad bus

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a bus Monday in northeastern Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 17 others, emergency police said.

Top commander in D.C. for talks amid Iraq concerns

Iraq to close offices of Kurdish separatist group

The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it will shut down the offices of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in an effort to maintain good relations with Turkey.

Head of U.S. command: Iraq civil war possible

Under tough questioning from U.S. senators, the head of U.S. Central Command acknowledged Thursday that Iraq could descend into civil war.

Ambassador warns of Iraq civil war

The UK's outgoing ambassador to Baghdad has warned government ministers that a civil war in Iraq is more likely than a successful transition to democracy, according to a news report.

Abizaid: Plan to cut troops on track

The U.S. is still on track to reduce its military troops in Iraq, so long as the effort to form a unity government there does not collapse, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday.

Gunmen kill 3 in Iraq mosque attack

Gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos attacked a Sunni mosque in a western Baghdad neighborhood late Saturday, killing three mosque guards and wounding six others in an hour-long gunfight, police said.

Deadly blasts in Iraq shatter curfew calm

A mortar round killed seven people and wounded 15 others at a busy market in a southeastern Baghdad suburb early Saturday, said an emergency police official, one day after a daytime curfew brought relative peace.

When can we leave?

Pentagon officials have been saying for some time that Iraqis must take more responsibility for securing their country. But can these local forces protect its critical infrastructure without U.S. help? Top American officials disagree, and that has caused friction between the State and Defense departments and may complicate the planned reduction of U.S. troops.

Rumsfeld: Insurgency could last decade

U.S. President George W. Bush was preparing a major address on the Iraq war as his defense chief predicted the insurgency could last another decade.

Mosul attacks kill 33 in one day

Three suicide bombings targeting Iraqi military and police stations killed 15 police officers and 18 civilians Sunday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. military officials said.

Bush rejects timetable to pull out of Iraq

President Bush struck back Friday against growing calls to schedule a U.S. pullout from Iraq, vowing there would be no timetable to withdraw troops.

Uzbek leader: We don't need probe

Uzbekistan is unlikely to allow an independent probe into recent violent events in the central Asian nation, according to media reports.

Arrest over death of Afghan leader

Pakistani intelligence officials have arrested a man they said was involved in the killing of Abdul Haq, a pro-U.S. Afghan leader who was captured and killed by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan in 2001.

The fight for Iraq

Maybe one day flights to Iraq will be routine events. But that is certainly not the case now. The continuing insurgency explains why.

Father: Son killed in crash was due home soon

The father of a U.S. Marine killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in Iraq said his son was due to come home in March. Twenty-nine other Marines and a Navy corpsman also died in the crash.

Allawi: Iraqis may be unable to vote in some places

Fear of violence will keep Iraqis in some parts of the country from voting in the national elections less than three weeks away, interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday.

Marine general: 'Enemy is broken' in Falluja

U.S. and Iraqi forces have "broken" the opposing forces in Falluja, a U.S. Marine commander said Sunday, but "isolated pockets" of insurgents remain in the restive city -- and have increased their activity elsewhere.

General downplays Iraq violence

The head of U.S. Central Command has given an upbeat assessment of the situation in Iraq, despite the deaths of 250 Iraqis and 29 U.S. military personnel in the last week.

Powell: Goal is to stabilize Iraq for elections

The U.S. military in Iraq will move into insurgent-filled "no-go zones" to stabilize them in advance of elections in January, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

Bush, Allawi united on Iraq

President Bush and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi emerged from the Oval Office and walked into the Rose Garden speaking with one voice Thursday:

U.S. military orders families to leave Bahrain

Fearing possible terror attacks, the head of U.S. Central Command on Monday has ordered 650 U.S. military dependents to leave Bahrain within days.

Prisoner abuse report expected next week

Some U.S. reserve military police and intelligence units in Iraq were ill-equipped and poorly trained for the job of guarding thousands of detainees ranging from common criminals to terrorism suspects at Abu Ghraib prison, an Army officer told CNN Monday.

CIA investigates death of three detainees

The CIA is investigating three cases of prisoner deaths during interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Shocking prison pictures emerge

Two new photographs have surfaced in the Iraq prison abuse scandal which appear to show U.S. soldiers gloating over a corpse.

Pentagon says it attacked fighters -- not wedding

Pentagon officials Wednesday denied alleged eyewitness reports of a U.S. attack on a wedding party in a remote area of western Iraq that killed innocent civilians.

General: No pattern of abuse at prisons

The chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East told a Senate panel Wednesday there was no pattern of prisoner abuse by American troops.

Senate panel to hold another hearing on abused prisoners

The Senate Armed Services Committee is poised to hold another hearing Wednesday examining the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, but Republicans are divided over how hard to pursue the issue.

Inside the occupation

General John Abizaid likes to travel on the edge. He is riding in a Black Hawk helicopter as it tears across the skies of central Iraq, skimming treetops and flushing startled sheep out onto the grassy pastures beneath.

Marines preparing to reposition in Fallujah

Fallujah has been ravaged by weeks of violence. Now, U.S. Marines are preparing to reposition so Iraqi security troops can take on a larger role in patrolling the city of 200,000.

Baghdad: A year after the fall

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

Two U.S. soldiers missing near Baghdad

Two U.S. soldiers and an unknown number of civilian contractors are unaccounted for after a fuel convoy was attacked Friday near Baghdad International Airport, a senior Pentagon official says.

Rumsfeld: U.S. forces on the offense

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld described the U.S. coalition in Iraq as engaged and determined despite a week of violence.

U.S. may up high-tech ante in bin Laden hunt

The Pentagon is considering beefing up the already enhanced technology U.S. forces are using to search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, sources said.

General: Expect more violence in Iraq

The commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq is predicting more violence as the United States prepares to hand over the country to Iraqis but said he thinks civil war is unlikely.

High-tech snooping for bin Laden

U.S. forces searching for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon implement high-tech surveillance tactics in the region, enabling them to monitor the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week, CNN has learned.

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