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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 25 Jan 2006 [PDF]
• MARINE KILLED IN AL KARMAH
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• U.S. Troops in Iraq Decrease to Last Summer's Level AFPS 25 Jan 2006 -- The number of U.S. troops serving in Iraq has decreased to around 138,000, which was the level deployed there last summer, a Defense Department military spokesman said here today.
• Iraqi Soldier Wounded; Iraqi Troops Find, Destroy Weapons AFPS 25 Jan 2006 -- An Iraqi soldier participating in operations with coalition forces was wounded during a battle with insurgents near a bridge close to the Euphrates River near Hit, Iraq, in one of several military actions yesterday.
• Bomb in Baghdad Injures 2; Iraqi Cameraman Killed VOA 25 Jan 2006 -- A bomb planted on a motorcycle in Baghdad has injured two people, while an Iraqi television station says one of its video journalists has been killed on the job.
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 25 Jan 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Security forces work side by side with Soldiers in Iraq AFPN 25 Jan 2006 -- Imagine searching door to door with Soldiers, looking for insurgents, high-value targets and weapons caches in Iraq.
• Warhorse team assists Iraqis securing border Army News 25 Jan 2006 -- In addition to training Iraqi soldiers and conducting joint counter-insurgency operations, Border Transition Teams are helping Iraqis secure their borders.
• Rakkasans building independent Iraqi army Army News 25 Jan 2006 -- "Iron Rakkasans" are training the future trainers of an independent Iraqi army at sites in Samarra and Mahmudiyah, Iraq.

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• Iraq 'Headed in a Good Direction,' Abizaid Says AFPS 25 Jan 2006 -- American troops are an "essential stabilizing tool" in Iraq and their presence is needed for "Iraq to emerge as a responsible nation in a tough neighborhood and to keep the terrorists out," the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East said today.
• Saddam's Trial Features 'Minimal' U.S. Involvement AFPS 25 Jan 2006 -- U.S. involvement with Saddam Hussein's sometimes noisy, protracted trial in Baghdad "is minimal," a senior Defense Department spokesman said here today.

United Nations

• Efforts to restore stability in Iraq are backfiring, UN study warns UN News Centre 25 Jan 2006 -- International efforts to restore stability to Iraq are having the opposite effect, the editors of a new United Nations book on the reform of the security sectors in post-conflict societies said today.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 25 Jan 2006 [PDF]
• IRAQ: Delays expected over appointments for top posts IRIN 25 Jan 2006 -- Following the release of election results on 20 January, politicians are bracing themselves for delays as political rivals wrangle over the selection of a president and national assembly speaker.

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