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• Iraqis Continue to Take Lead in Fighting Terrorists, Officials Say AFPS 23 Jul 2006 -- Better-trained and more confident Iraqi troops increasingly are taking the fight to the terrorists, and U.S. troops are securing better and more actionable intelligence, thanks to their daily, long-standing efforts on behalf of the Iraqi people, U.S. military officials reported this week.
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for July 22 and 23 AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for July 22 and 23.
• Violence In Iraq Leaves Over 70 Dead RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- At least 72 people are reported to have been killed across Iraq in two large bomb attacks and in a major clash with Shi'ite militiamen.
• Dozens Dead in Separate Iraq Attacks VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- More than 60 Iraqis have been killed after bomb attacks in a busy market and outside a town hall in the mostly Shiite Baghdad district of Sadr City
• Pakistan Hands Over Prisoners To Afghanistan RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- A Pakistani police official says Pakistan handed over 58 prisoners to Afghanistan today.
• Afghan Security Forces Kill 19 Taleban Fighters, Capture 17 Others VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- An Afghan official says local security forces have killed 19 Taleban militants and captured 17 others during an operating against insurgents in the southern province of Helmand.
• More Than 10,000 Americans Evacuated from Lebanon AFPS 23 Jul 2006 -- Over the past two days, the U.S. military has transported more than 5,000 American citizens out of Lebanon, bringing the total number evacuated to more than 10,000, a Defense official speaking on background said today.

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• Stennis Returns Home Surge Ready Navy NewsStand 23 Jul 2006 -- USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) returned to Bremerton, Wash., July 18, after a seven-week underway period jammed with an assortment of tests, inspections and qualifications.
• Navy to Test all Personnel Attached to Air Wing 14, USS Ronald Reagan for Tuberculosis Navy NewsStand 23 Jul 2006 -- After screening more than 700 personnel who were considered to have been in close contact with a Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14 Sailor embarked aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) who was recently diagnosed with active tuberculosis, the Navy decided July 22 they would expand the screening to include the entire ship’s crew, air wing and civilian guests who returned home from deployment aboard Reagan July 6.
• RAM squad exercises ability to rescue coalition forces AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- Firefighting tends to be a strenuous and dangerous job, requiring its practitioners to place themselves in harm's way to save lives and property.
• Misawa F-16 unit flying high at Cooperative Cope Thunder AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- Pilots and support staff from Misawa Air Base, Japan, are taking advantage of realistic air combat training here during Cooperative Cope Thunder, Pacific Air Forces' largest joint and bilateral air combat exercise.
• No matter the nationality, pilots speak same language AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- No matter the nationality, pilots speak same language
• Medical squadron takes on AFSO 21 challenge AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- The 71st Medical Support Squadron's radiology section wasted little time following the Air Force Smart Operations 21 announcement to roll out a smarter, less expensive way of conducting their business.

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• Diplomacy To The Fore As Military Stakes Rise RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- Syria has warned that it may enter the conflict in Lebanon if Israel forces enter Lebanon and approach the Syrian border.
• U.S. Calls for "Sustained Solution" to Israeli-Hizballah Conflict Washington File 23 Jul 2006 -- A "sustained solution" to the conflict between Israel and Hizballah will require full implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which recognizes the sovereignty of Lebanon and calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops and the disbanding and disarming of militias, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says.
• Bush Meets With Saudi Officials on Mideast Crisis VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- President Bush met privately at the White House Sunday with top Saudi diplomats as the search continues for a formula to end the bloodshed between Israeli and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants
• Lebanese Prime Minister Calls for Immediate Ceasefire VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora says Israeli bombing of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is forcing his country to its knees
• President: Zionists triggered their extinction by Lebanon attack IRNA 23 Jul 2006 -- The Zionists made their worst decision and triggered their extinction by attacking Lebanon, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Sunday.
• Hizbollah missiles force 250,000 Israelis flee northern Israel IRNA 23 Jul 2006 -- Katyusha missiles, fired on northern Israeli settlements, have forced 250,000 Israelis to flee the region in the past 11 days, according to the media of the Qods-occupying regime.
• Syria will react to any Israel military moves near its borders IRNA 23 Jul 2006 -- Damascus threatened to wage war against the Zionist regime if its military forces continue massive strikes on Lebanon and areas close to the Syrian borders.
• Israel Bombs Lebanese Cities, Hezbollah Fires Rockets Into Haifa VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- Israeli warplanes have bombed targets in Lebanon for a 12th day, while Hezbollah militants fired rockets into northern Israel, killing at least two people.
• Mideast Attacks Continue as Diplomacy Revs Up VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- At least a dozen Hezbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing at least two people in the port city of Haifa
• LEBANON: UN's aid chief tours Beirut IRIN 23 Jul 2006 -- Jan Egeland, the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, is in Lebanon pushing for a safe humanitarian corridor for aid workers to deliver urgently needed supplies.
• India gave proposals to solve Kashmir: Pakistan IRNA 23 Jul 2006 -- Pakistan has claimed that shortly before the Mumbai bomb blasts, India had given written proposals to it as 'an advance' and 'a step forward' in the agreed process of exploring options for a settlement of the Kashmir problem.

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