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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 19 Jun 2006 [PDF]
• CENTAF releases combined airpower summary AFPN 19 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the combined airpower summary for June 16 to 18.
• Terror Suspects Detained, Iraqis Take Charge in Southwest Baghdad AFPS 19 Jun 2006 -- Recent operations in Iraq have netted more terrorism suspects and weapons, and the Iraqi military has assumed responsibility for an area in southwest Baghdad, military officials reported.

Deployments

• Coalition To Leave Southern Iraqi Province RFE/RL 19 Jun 2006 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamil al-Maliki has announced that coalition troops will withdraw from the southern province of Al-Muthana next month and hand over security duties to local forces.
• Coalition Said to Hand Over Security Duties Soon in Southern Iraq VOA 19 Jun 2006 -- Iraq's prime minister says Iraqi forces will take over security in the southern province of Muthanna next month.

US Policy

• Analysis: Iraq Timetable Debate Resurfaces cfr.org 19 Jun 2006 -- Congress is set to continue the partisan debate over the course of the Iraq war this week with Democrats in the Senate proposing a "phased redeployment" that sets a timetable for a U.S. troop drawdown
• President: Iraq progress depends on sustainable security IRNA 19 Jun 2006 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that establishment of a democratic government in Iraq which is outcome of national resolve and solidarity among different political parties is a great event in history of the nation.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Russians' Abduction RFE/RL 19 Jun 2006 -- A group linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq today said that it is holding four Russian Embassy staff hostage.
• Al-Qaeda Group Claims It Abducted U.S. Soldiers In Iraq RFE/RL 19 Jun 2006 -- A key Iraqi militant body linked to Al-Qaeda says it has abducted two American soldiers near Al-Yusufiyah, in the same region where the U.S. military reported two of its men went missing on June 16.
• Thousands of US, Iraqi Forces Search for Missing American Soldiers VOA 19 Jun 2006 -- Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and police are involved in an intense search for two American soldiers that an insurgent group claims to have abducted.