One has to do detective work to piece together the sporadic news of the remarkable turnaround in Iraq, but that's why you have IRIS:
A 'significant' fall in US air raids in Iraq has been recorded over the past few weeks, a top US air force officer told reporters on Sunday. '[Yesterday (on Saturday), for the first time in a long time, we dropped no ammunitions,' said Major General David Edgington, a co-ordination director for the US-led multinational forces. 'We were called several times, but we dropped no ammunitions.'
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