There has been an optimistic improvement in the reduction of sectarian violence in the city of Baghdad, this is the reason why the security agencies in Baghdad and another city of Mosul are going to ease out the curfew timings for a period shorter by three hours. The curfew will now be imposed from 2200 to 0500 Baghdad timings.

Taking a look at the situation, there are plans of removing concrete barricades put during the war time, this will facilitate the movement of people, making it easier to move around the city. US has moved in 30000 more troops in the country to facilitate the security arrangements. According to US, troops the things of most concern are the car bombs which are kept at important places and which make the most damage.

There has been drop of sectarian killings by over 27% in March than in February. This drop of casualties is only in Baghdad and not in the surrounding areas in Iraq. However, it has been agrees that the violence situation is not so good in the rest of the country and the security forces have not got the results they expected from the peace process.

There are also doubts that there are certain politicians involved in militancy, there were two suicide vests found in garbage bins near Baghdad’s green zone recently. The latest news about the sectarian violence in Baghdad is the abduction of 22 shepherds from the desert near the city of Karbala, the shepherds were Shias and had traveled to a greener part of the desert near Amariyah, which happens to be dominated by Sunnis, though six of them did manage to escape in a pick-up truck.

In another incident two senior members of the Sadr movement were killed by the Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr only because they did not walk out after US military chief David Petraeus arrived at a dinner function. They had been sacked following the incident.

However, notwithstanding, these incidents the security forces are trying to extend this security drive to the other parts of the country through extensive peace efforts. There are certain success stories, the provinces of Dhi Qar and Muthana are the ones which have assumed complete control of their security. The province is now looking forward for some investments and also trying to interest tourism industry.

This is the type of development that the coalition army is interested in getting in Iraq since now everyone seems to be eager to leave Iraq to the Iraqis. The security forces are trying to train the Iraqi security forces so that they will be independent. Though some of the militia are ex-criminals who have attained the position of militia in the country. There are almost one third of such people in the force. There are discrepancies like forcefully having to hire people who are illiterate because of their connections. Though they are trying to fight out these discrepancies there is little that they can do to set things right.