Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq oil minister blames Kurds for delay in oil law (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 05:11 AM CDT

AFP - A series of contracts awarded by Kurdish leaders is blocking the passage of a national oil law, prompting Baghdad to use Saddam Hussein era rules for new deals, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said.

US air strike kills eight family members in Iraq: police (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:37 AM CDT

AFP - A US air strike killed eight family members, three of them women, near executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's central hometown of Tikrit on Friday, police and witnesses said.

All South Korea troops to leave Iraq by end of '08 (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:55 AM CDT

Reuters - South Korea, which once had the third-largest foreign military contingent in Iraq, will pull all of its troops out off the country on schedule by the end of this year, a military official said on Friday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,168 (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 07:02 PM CDT

AP - As of Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, at least 4,168 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

U.S. soldier shoots 2 American sergeants (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 03:51 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD An American soldier shot and killed two U.S. sergeants Sunday morning at a base southeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

Gates: US reviewing its Afghanistan war strategy (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 01:55 PM CDT

AP - In an echo of a time when things were going from bad to worse in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the Bush administration is reviewing its war strategy in Afghanistan amid spreading insurgent violence, rising U.S. and allied military deaths and doubts about winning.

U.S. soldier sentenced over killings of Iraqis (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 01:08 PM CDT

Reuters - A U.S. soldier who admitted involvement in the shooting of detainees in Iraq early last year has been sentenced to seven months in jail and will be dishonorably discharged, the army said on Thursday.

US soldier jailed for seven months over Iraqi slayings (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 12:56 PM CDT

AFP - A US soldier was sentenced Thursday to seven months in prison for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the deaths of four detainees in Iraq last year, an army spokeswoman said.

US trains Iraqi women spies (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:49 AM CDT

AFP - The American military has begun training a first batch of Iraqi women spies to work alongside US-led forces in the violence-hit country, it was announced here on Thursday.

Talks on US military presence in Iraq ongoing: US (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:46 AM CDT

AFP - The White House on Thursday said negotiations with the Iraqi government on terms of a long-term US military presence were ongoing, but did not offer further details.