VOA:
Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, deputy commander of coalition forces in northwestern Iraq, says coalition military activities, the rise of the new Iraqi security forces and efforts by the national and local governments have combined to drastically change the situation in the region.
Speaking on a video link from Mosul, General Bergner could not provide specific figures to back up his claim of an 80 percent reduction in insurgent capability, but did say the number of attacks is sharply down.
"We have seen fewer complex attacks against Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people," he said. "We've also seen an overall reduction since January in the number of attacks against both our forces and the Iraqi people. And as I mentioned earlier, we've seen less indirect fire. We've actually had days in Mosul now where we've had zero indirect fire, zero small-arms fire and zero VBIEDs. That was a feature of the security environment back in the winter that would have been almost unheard of."
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