Our coalition has handed over roughly 90 square miles of Baghdad province to Iraqi security forces.
And now it appears as if most of the deadliest attacks are happening in the province north of Baghdad, Diyala province.
For example, the Sunnis that are being pushed out of Baghdad into Anbar province.
First was the flow of additional troops into Iraq, especially Baghdad and Anbar province.
Last Thursday and Friday, five suicide bombings, as well as other attacks in Baghdad and Diyala province, left almost 160 people dead and 275 wounded.
Petraeus told The Washington Post on Sunday that the increase in U.S. and Iraqi troops since February has yielded a more secure Baghdad and Anbar province as well as a lull in sectarian violence.
In mid-June, with all the surge capabilities in place, we launched a series of offensive operations focused on expanding the gains achieved in the preceding months in Anbar province, clearing Baquba, several key Baghdad neighborhoods, the remaining sanctuaries in Anbar province and important areas in the so called belts around Baghdad, and pursuing al Qaeda in the Diyala river valley and several other areas.
After flushing al-Qaida forces out of their former sanctuaries and operating bases in Anbar Province and Baghdad, Tuesday US forces mounted a major offensive against al-Qaida in its current operational hub in Diyala province.
American-led coalition forces battling insurgents in Iraq's Diyala province near Baghdad killed 25 insurgents in a three-day operation, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Baquba is north of Baghdad, in Diyala province, which borders Iran.
At least 11 people have died and more than 30 wounded in bomb attacks at mosques in Iraq's capital Baghdad and in the province of Diyala.
Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Khaldi from the opposition Iraqiya bloc said he received complaints from voters in Baghdad and in Diyala province about missing names on voting rolls as well.
After recent deadly fighting between the Shiite rivals Mehdi Army and Badr Organization last week in Karbala, Baghdad, and Babil province, al-Sadr announced he was suspending the militia operations and restructuring the group.
Separately, at least 37 people were killed and 81 wounded when a suicide car bomb detonated outside a police building in the Iraqi town of Baiji, north of Baghdad, in Salaheddin province, police said.
Those events came a day after eight U.S. soldiers died in two separate bombings in Baghdad and in Diyala province, and a leading sheikh in a Diyala province town was killed by a female suicide attacker, officials said.
CNN: In one day, bombings, battles and shooting kill 48 in Iraq
We're going to take this conversation over the break, so if you have a question for General Keane about the situation in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq as we're, what, about seven weeks into the escalation of forces into Baghdad and to Anbar province as well.
Abu Ghraib is a predominantly Sunni area about 20 miles west of Baghdad and near the Anbar province.
Half of those arrested were captured during raids in Samarra, in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad, according to the military.
Sunni Endowment leader Ahmed Abdul Ghafur al-Samarrai told the AP that the killers originated from Iraq's volatile province west of Baghdad.
In Babylon, a Shiite-majority province south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber and an improvised explosive device aimed at civilians killed nine people and wounded 53.
U.S. and Iraqi troops have been fighting insurgents in Operation Arrowhead Ripper in and around Baquba, the capital of Diyala -- the eastern province northeast of Baghdad.
The convoy was heading from Baiji -- the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- to Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, the police official said.
In Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, a man walked into a restaurant and detonated his suicide vest, killing at least 15 people and wounding 13, according to an Interior Ministry official and Hamid al-Hais, the head of the Awakening Council in Anbar.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Voters in Diyala province -- the district north of Baghdad with a majority Sunni Arab population -- are backing the country's draft constitution, according to early figures released from last week's referendum on the law.
Other troops were killed in northern Iraq and Anbar province, west of Baghdad.
We flew on to Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, where U.S. and Iraqi forces were preparing a local offensive.
The attack took place on a U.S. patrol base at an Iraqi school near the town of Baquba in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
The Americans have also had some success in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, where a new Anbar Salvation Council of Sunni tribal sheikhs is leading a campaign against al-Qaeda, which may have overreached itself in the area.
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