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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Media reports touting the role of the Awakening councils in the fight against al-Qaida point to confusion over sectarian distinctions in Iraq, a study shows.
FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 2 (UPI) -- The Iraqi security force known as Sons of Iraq opened its first office in Fallujah Wednesday in a ceremony attended by Iraqi government officials.
FALLUJAH, Iraq, March 10 (UPI) -- Councilmen in Fallujah voiced their approval for the establishment of five offices for the Awakening movement in the predominately Sunni city.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- In a new audiotape said to have been made by Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader accuses the United States of trying to build a regional base in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A Multi-National Force Iraq spokesman says a man suspected of being behind the assassination of Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha has been captured.
RAMADI, Iraq, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The Iraqi defense and interior ministers joined hundreds of mourners Friday for the funeral of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Anbar Awakening alliance.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A chief spokesman of the Iraqi government says the assassination of an influential Sunni leader will only encourage the efforts against the insurgency.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A car bomb east of Baghdad killed five Iraqis while a pro-government tribal chief was assassinated outside his home in the city of Al-Ramadi.