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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq: gunmen kill interior ministry official (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:26 AM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a meeting with orphaned children, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Baghdad September 20, 2008. Picture taken September 20, 2008. REUTERS/Iraqi government/Handout (IRAQ)AP - Iraqi officials say an interior ministry brigadier has been killed in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad.

Iraq sends convicted prisoners back to Saudi (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:08 AM CDT

Saudi men released from the US Guantanamo Bay detention-centre as well as prisons in Iraq and Saudi Arabia leave after a religious class at an interior ministry rehabilitation centre, in 2007. Baghdad has sent back to Saudi Arabia eight of its citizens jailed in Iraq ahead of a new extradition treaty between the two countries, a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)AFP - Baghdad has sent back to Saudi Arabia eight of its citizens jailed in Iraq ahead of a new extradition treaty between the two countries, a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry said on Sunday.

Young 'heroes' in Iraq get a taste for fasting (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 12:27 AM CDT

Iraqi children stand close to their national flag as Shiite Muslims take part in the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Baghdad's impoverished Sadr City, on September 5. Children are allowed to tuck into food during Ramadan, but some Iraqi boys and girls who join the adults in fasting during the Muslim holy month are seen as young heroes in the war-ravaged nation.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - Children are allowed to tuck into food during Ramadan, but some Iraqi boys and girls who join the adults in fasting during the Muslim holy month are seen as young heroes in the war-ravaged nation.

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

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:36 PM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a meeting with orphaned children, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Baghdad September 20, 2008. Picture taken September 20, 2008. REUTERS/Iraqi government/Handout (IRAQ)AP - As of Saturday, Sept. 20, 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.

Iran-trained Shiite Iraqis returning to launch bombings: police (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:14 PM CDT

An Iraqi soldier guards a checkpoint at the entrance to the southern city of Amara in the Maysan province in June 2008. Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province's police said Saturday.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province's police said Saturday.

Car bomb kills 3, wounds 23 in Northern Iraq: police (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:23 PM CDT

U.S. soldiers buy their breakfast from a local bakery after a weapons search operation in southwestern Baghdad's Jihad district September 20, 2008. (Ali Shati/Reuters)Reuters - A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded 23 others in an attack next to a sports ground in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Saturday, police said.

Change of paymaster raises worries in Saddam's hometown (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:05 AM CDT

US army lieutenant colonel Thomas Hauerwas speaks at his office in Camp Speicher in the northern city of Tikrit on September 15, 2008. The violence in executed dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit has drastically declined, but the US military is concerned for the hard-won stability.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - The violence in executed dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit has drastically declined, but the US military is concerned for the hard-won stability.

Q&A: McCain, Obama on Iraq, Iran, Putin (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:52 AM CDT

AP - Foreign policy will be the subject when Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet for their first presidential debate. Both covered some of the same ground during their primary-season debates. What they've said on Iraq, Iran and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Tight security for Shiite imam anniversary in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:14 AM CDT

Shiite Muslims place the holy Koran on their heads as they recite prayers in the Imam Ali shrine in the southern city of Najaf. Around 15,000 policemen and soldiers backed by US-led coalition forces will stand guard next week for a Shiite pilgrimage in the central Iraq city of Najaf, a top official has said.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - Around 15,000 policemen and soldiers backed by US-led coalition forces will stand guard next week for a Shiite pilgrimage in the central Iraq city of Najaf, a top official said on Saturday.

Iraq media union boss survives bomb attack (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:01 AM CDT

Iraqi security stand next to a crater created by a blast outside the villa housing the offices of the Iraqi Journalist's Union in the Waziriyah neighborhood of Baghdad. The head of the main journalists' union in Iraq, Muayad al-Lami, survived the assassination attempt, although he was injured in the blast.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - The head of the main journalists' union in Iraq survived an assassination attempt on Saturday when a bomb exploded outside his office in the capital Baghdad, his colleague said.

Iraqi journalist union chief hurt in blast (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:30 AM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a meeting with orphaned children, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Baghdad September 20, 2008. Picture taken September 20, 2008. REUTERS/Iraqi government/Handout (IRAQ)Reuters - A bomb blast outside Iraq's national journalists' union in central Baghdad wounded the union's head and three others on Saturday, an eyewitness said.

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