The Surge in Iraq: One Year Later

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An Uncertain Peace
Blast walls like this one in al-Dora now snake around Baghdad, separating neighborhoods along sectarian lines. In the year since the surge began, Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence has declined and the capital has become a safer place to live, but for how long?

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