CTReaderEast.com Local News, Read all about it!: End of combat does not spell the end of violence for US troops in Iraq End of combat does not spell the end of violence for US troops in Iraq ================================================================================ Feeder on 01 September, 2010 05:43:00 HAWIJA, Iraq (AP) — Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.