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As we drove out of Baghdad, Yuri's camera click-clicked cautiously past rusting scrap yards in the lingering insurgent strongholds of Salman Pak, al-Hafriya and Hay al-Wahida--impoverished slums of outer Baghdad where desperation and frustration have created fertile breeding grounds for insurgents. Every so often, our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard From Basra | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

Whatever the military challenges, the U.S. Administration has continued its quiet cultivation of Kayani, who has acted more aggressively against insurgents in recent months, with full-scale aerial assaults. On Aug. 6 he launched a massive operation in Bajaur tribal agency, an insurgent-ridden area along the border. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Central Front | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

On his first mission, James releases a cloud of smoke, protecting him from sharpshooters but obliterating his comrades' view of him. (There's another company ready to cover him closer to the action.) A taxi has just edged toward the suspected device; he tells the driver to back out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hurt Locker: A Near-Perfect War Film | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Al-Obeidi's band of citizen fighters and local watchmen, divisions of the U.S.-backed Awakening movement around Iraq, have been critical to the taming of the insurgent-infested areas since 2006. As a consequence, they have faced regular assassination attempts from militants aligned with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days for Iraq's Awakening | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

Al-Obeidi's death marked yet another blow dealt against the Sunni Awakening movement. Awakening fighters, many of whom once worked with the insurgency before switching sides, played a vital role in bringing Iraq's violence down to levels that leadership in Washington and Baghdad now consider low enough for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days for Iraq's Awakening | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

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