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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Jul 2007 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Transcript: DoD Media Roundtable with Secretary Gates and Gen. Pace in the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, Va. 13 Jul 2007 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace
• July 12 airpower summary: C-130s provide vital airlift support AFPN 13 Jul 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations July 12, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• Forces Kill Two Terrorists, Capture 19 in Iraq Today AFPS 13 Jul 2007 -- Coalition forces killed two terrorists and detained 19 suspects during combat operations in central and western Iraq today.
• Fighting Erupts After US Troops Arrest Alleged Insurgent Leader in Iraq VOA 13 Jul 2007 -- The U.S. military says its troops killed six Iraqi policemen and seven suspected militants in Baghdad during a raid to arrest an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of insurgent activity.
• Dragons' Operation 'Hammers' enemy MNF-I 13 Jul 2007 -- Multi-National Division - Baghdad troops detained more than 100 suspected insurgents and seized more than 200 weapons caches during Operation Dragon Hammer in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital July 1 -11.

Deployments

• Sailors Depart for Air Cargo Handling Mission in Iraq Navy NewsStand 13 Jul 2007 -- Twenty-seven Sailors donned desert utility uniforms and boarded a bus in the early morning hours of July 13 to catch a military flight bound for the Middle East.

US Policy

• Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams Helping Rebuild Nation Washington File 13 Jul 2007 -- Military operations might dominate the headlines in Iraq, but a second, quiet surge of U.S.-led provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) is helping local communities restore basic services, bridge the sectarian divide and achieve self-sufficiency.
• Commander Says Iraq Surge Operations Have 'Significant' Impact AFPS 13 Jul 2007 -- Ongoing anti-insurgent operations conducted in and around Baghdad and to the south of Iraq's capital city are achieving continued success, a senior U.S. military officer said today during a teleconference with retired military analysts.
• Surge Progress May Lead to Troop Reductions in Northern Iraq, General Says AFPS 13 Jul 2007 -- Now at full strength, the U.S. troop surge in Iraq is showing "definitive progress" and the number of forces serving in Iraq's Multinational Division North could be halved by summer 2009, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon said today.
• Army Engineers' Efforts Will Have Lasting Impact in Iraq, General Says AFPS 13 Jul 2007 -- It will take time and considerable resources to rebuild Iraq following more than 25 years of neglect under Saddam Hussein's rule, a U.S. military official told online journalists today.
• U.S.: Bush To Press Ahead Despite Uneven Iraq Progress RFE/RL 13 Jul 2007 -- U.S. President George W. Bush, delivering a mixed White House report on progress in Iraq, has vowed to stay the course in the four-year-old war despite growing calls in Congress for U.S. troops to pull out of the conflict.
• U.S. House votes on troop pullout from Iraq by April 1, 2008 RIA Novosti 13 Jul 2007 -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday for the withdrawal of most American troops from Iraq by April 1, 2008, hours after President Bush delivered an impassioned televised plea to give his "surge" strategy a chance to work.
• Rice Says Bush Iraq Strategy Needs More Time VOA 13 Jul 2007 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Iraqi government has not made as much progress as U.S. officials would like, but has urged congressional critics to give the Bush administration's Iraq strategy more time.

United Nations

• Visiting Iraqi Kurdistan, UN envoy urges consensus on disputed territories UN News Centre 13 Jul 2007 -- The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq has concluded a three-day visit to the Kurdistan Region with a call for all parties in the violence-wracked country to seek consensus on the status of disputed territories.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraq: Kurdish Region Feels Threat Of Turkish Invasion RFE/RL 13 Jul 2007 -- In recent weeks, Turkey has massed tens of thousands of soldiers on its border with Iraq and repeatedly threatened to launch a cross-border operation to pursue Kurdish militants.