At the outskirts of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, coalition forces skirmished with Iraqi troops.
Figuerido and his team of sergeants and junior officers will soon advise real Iraqi troops.
"There were no Iraqi troops in the area where the incident took place, " he said.
U.S. troops handed security control of the area to Iraqi troops and police last week.
The U.S. military said no U.S. or Iraqi troops were seriously hurt in the fighting.
Now, she's in southern Iraq, where Iraqi troops are far more visible than they have been.
The Americans sound particularly chuffed by the performance of Iraqi troops in the assault on Samarra.
He received the Bronze Star for his work as an adviser for Iraqi troops.
The United States continued broadcasting to Iraqis via radio frequencies, encouraging Iraqi troops to lay down weapons.
As the debate over Iraq heats up, one vital question is how well Iraqi troops have performed.
U.S. deaths have dropped in part because Iraqi troops are taking more responsibility for fighting, he said.
U.S. troops have also conducted raids and engaged in gun battles with militia fighters alongside Iraqi troops.
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But so far, the number of Iraqi troops coming to Baghdad is far below what had been promised.
Now that Iraqi troops have surrendered in large numbers, it was unclear what the possible targets might be.
That was evident recently when Iraqi troops raided a camp that hosted 3, 400 Iranian dissidents north of Baghdad.
British troops, which have been based in Basra, handed security control to Iraqi troops and police late last year.
The sanctions were imposed after a U.S., European and Arab coalition pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in 1991.
Iraqi troops bring knowledge and capabilities to the fight that coalition forces cannot.
U.S. commanders told him that elements of the 3rd Infantry had moved into Karbala overnight, where they encountered Iraqi troops.
The United States has responded cautiously to news that as many as 15, 000 Iraqi troops may be on the move.
Iraqi troops often take the lead in security patrols, as 13 of 18 provinces now are under Iraqi security control.
The British say they are using them to destroy large numbers of Iraqi troops only when they move into open ground.
Iraqi troops in and near the northern city of Mosul have been fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni militant group.
Mr Maliki sent 30, 000-plus Iraqi troops, closely mentored by teams of American marines, into the city to clean out the Shia militias.
Iraqi troops arrived to try to clear the town and fighting broke out, leaving 15 gunmen and seven soldiers dead, according to police.
And we're going to begin this hour in Baghdad, where U.S. and Iraqi troops have cordoned off a predominantly Sunni neighborhood called Adhamyah.
CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in Kuwait says this is due to intense resistance from Iraqi troops who have withdrawn into Basra.
On Sunday, Iraqi troops ambushed Johnson's company, and she became one of 12 from her group to be captured, killed or determined missing.
Reports from the border area say the Kurdish peshmerga patrolling the Syrian border are sometimes just a few hundred yards from regular Iraqi troops.
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U.S. and British forces have supported Iraqi troops with airstrikes and shelling in Basra, as well as reconnaissance and intelligence, coalition military officials have said.
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