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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 19 Jul 2006 [PDF]
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• CENTAF releases air power summary AFPN 19 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for July 19.
• Combat Airmen keep convoy routes open AFPN 19 Jul 2006 -- Fifty-eight Air Force engineers filling a shortage of Soldiers in Iraq have completed more than a dozen construction projects, often under fire, throughout a 10,000-square-mile zone for the Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team.
• Iraqi, Coalition Forces Kill Two Terrorists, Detain 19 AFPS 19 Jul 2006 -- In several incidents July 16 and 17 and yesterday, Iraqi soldiers, police, and coalition forces killed two terrorists and detained 19, military officials reported.
• Gunmen Kidnap Employees of Iraqi Sunni Mosque Endowment VOA 19 Jul 2006 -- Gunmen in Iraq have kidnapped employees of a Sunni Muslim group that takes care of mosques and shrines.

Deployments

US Policy

• Top US Officials in Iraq Call on Iraqis to Help End Sectarian Violence VOA 19 Jul 2006 -- The top two U.S. officials in Iraq have called on Iraqi leaders to pursue reconciliation and help end the sectarian violence plaguing the war-torn country.

United Nations

• Iraq: UN envoy warns that violence threatens Government authority to enforce rule of law UN News Centre 19 Jul 2006 -- Describing the escalating violence in Iraq as a "catastrophe and a national tragedy", the senior United Nations envoy to the country called today on all Iraqis to end the vicious cycle, warning that it threatens to erode the Government's authority to enforce security and the rule of law, without which no initiatives and reforms can be implemented.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 19 Jul 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

• Turkey Considers Options Regarding Kurdish Rebels in Iraq VOA 19 Jul 2006 -- Turkey's prime minister says his military is moving forward in drafting plans for sending forces into northern Iraq to clear out Kurdish rebel bases, but added that officials are also holding talks with the United States and Iraq in an attempt to defuse tensions.
• No early plans to further reduce UK troops in Iraq IRNA 19 Jul 2006 -- The British government has no plans to further reduce its troops numbers in Iraq for the rest of the year despite preparations to handover security responsibility to Iraqi forces in three of the four provinces under UK control.

News Reports

• Iraq: Israel-Lebanon Conflict Seen Through Domestic Lens RFE/RL 19 Jul 2006 -- While Iraqis have expressed concern over events taking place in Lebanon, much of their focus this week remained on the deteriorating security situation in their own country.