Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq's Mehdi Army at crossroads as U.S. scales down (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 04:06 AM CDT

Reuters - Forced off Iraq's streets and with diminished political clout, what anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia do next will be crucial if they are to remain relevant.

Iraq: US soldier killed in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:53 AM CDT

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in an attack on his patrol in Baghdad.

Iraqi's warmth to Israel exacts a heavy price (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 09:39 PM CDT

AP - First his two sons were murdered. Now he faces prosecution. The reason for Mithal al-Alusi's troubles? Visiting Israel and advocating peace with the Jewish state something Iraq's leaders refuse to consider.

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

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 08:19 PM CDT

AP - As of Sunday, Sept. 21, 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.

US soldier accused of abusing and killing Iraqi (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 04:41 PM CDT

AP - Military prosecutors accused a U.S. soldier Sunday of taking an Iraqi detainee to a remote desert location, stripping him naked, shooting him in the head and chest and then watching as another soldier set fire to the body with an incendiary grenade.

McCain slams Obama 'lack of leadership' on finance, Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 03:52 PM CDT

AFP - Republican White House hopeful John McCain Sunday accused his Democratic foe Barack Obama of showing a "lack of leadership" and foresight on the US financial meltdown and the Iraq war.

US soldier fails to get judge changed in Iraq murder case (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 01:55 PM CDT

AFP - An American soldier failed on Sunday in a bid to replace the judge at a pre-trial hearing into charges that he murdered an Iraqi detainee, a US spokeswoman said.

Iraq unveils plans to revive honeymoon island (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 01:28 PM CDT

AFP - Iraq unveiled plans on Sunday for a multi-billion-dollar resort with spas, golf courses and a six-star hotel to revive a once popular honeymoon island on the Tigris river in Baghdad.

At least eight killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 01:07 PM CDT

AFP - Insurgents killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Sunday, including two suicide car bombings in two northern cities, security officials said.

Iraqi children hope for normal school year (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 11:47 AM CDT

AP - Boys and girls in navy blue and white uniforms giggled and held hands Sunday as they filed into dusty and often rundown classrooms for the first day of school in Iraq.