Top US General David Petraeus hailed progress in Iraq at a ceremony on Friday to rename the military command of US forces here, the only troops still deployed in the country. Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I), the name of the command of the coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003, was changed to United States Forces-Iraq (USF-I) in a ceremony attended by senior generals and Iraqi ministers at Al-Faw Palace at US Camp Victory on Baghdad's outskirts.
"Since I left in September 2008, I have noted progress each time (I returned)," Petraeus, the current US regional military commander and former top general in Iraq, told reporters. "That is not to say there have not been considerable challenges, there have not been periodic horrific attacks, and that there have not been innumerable obstacles. "But there has been sustained progress, and that progress has been maintained even after US forces moved out of the cities, and progress continues even as US forces have drawn down."
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