General Mixon: Still more troops needed for Diyala

Above: A squad from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division move through a market area during a foot patrol in Old Baqubah in Diyala province in April.

The U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Friday that he doesn’t have enough troops for the mission in increasingly violent Diyalah province...

Mixon commands the area that includes Diyalah province, north of Baghdad. It was a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency before the start of the Baghdad security crackdown and has worsened since militants fled there to avoid the increased U.S.-led operations started in the capital in February.

Mixon has already received extra troops, but violence in Diyalah is on the rise, he said, both because more militants have moved in and because coalition forces are taking the offensive.

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