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But not everyone in Iraq is eager to speed things up. Crocker and senior U.S. military officials in Iraq have repeatedly warned that reducing troops too quickly risks renewing sectarian violence, which has fallen to its lowest levels since the U.S. invasion in 2003. The ambassador stressed the point again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Soon Is Too Soon to Leave Iraq? | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

Insurgent activity persists in eastern and northern Iraq, and almost every day Baghdad still shakes with bomb explosions. Whether this lingering violence will rise as U.S. forces pull out remains the great unknown. Iraqi security forces are more numerous and stronger than they have been since the U.S. military started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Soon Is Too Soon to Leave Iraq? | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

During the first years of their existence, the Tigers were one of several resistance groups competing for support from the Sri Lankan Tamil population. But after a 1983 LTTE attack on Sri Lankan security forces sparked riots across the country that left hundreds of Tamils dead, they emerged as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tamil Tigers | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

In making arrests, there are other challenges. Previously, U.S. troops could detain Iraqi nationals at will, and for unspecified lengths of time without due process if they were suspected to have participated in insurgent activity. Now the troops must first obtain an Iraqi warrant - something that often requires the presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Iffy New Year's Resolution | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

Sectarian violence in the five-and-a-half years since the invasion has forced hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians to flee the country, many of them to neighboring Syria and Jordan. Mansur, the predominantly Sunni district that houses Mar Yousif, was a dangerous insurgent stronghold until one year ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas with Baghdad's Dwindling Christians | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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