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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Aug 2009 [PDF]
• Aug. 12 airpower summary: Reaper provides overwatch AFNS 13 Aug 2009 -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Aug. 12, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.

Deployments

• 396th Transportation Company departs to Iraq Army News 13 Aug 2009 -- Starting from scratch and standing up the company with virtually nothing, the 396th Transportation Company, 87th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Brigade has had a long road to travel
• 988th MPs return home from Iraq Army News 13 Aug 2009 -- A military police company that introduced police transition teams to Iraq's Maysan Province has returned home following a yearlong deployment, which saw the withdrawal of forces from Iraqi cities, villages and localities

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• Facing Wave Of Violence, Iraqi Shi'ite Factions Show Restraint -- For Now RFE/RL 13 Aug 2009 -- Violence had dropped markedly throughout Iraq in late 2008 and early 2009 -- prompting the U.S. military to withdraw soldiers from urban areas and hand over security there to Iraqi government troops
• Northern Iraq Twin Suicide Bombings Kill 20 VOA 13 Aug 2009 -- Police say two suicide bombers targeting a minority community killed at least 20 people and wounded 30 others in northern Iraq's restive Mosul province.