Yahoo! News: Iraq

Mayor wounded by bomb in N. Iraq town (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 03:12 AM CDT

Reuters - The Kurdish mayor of a town in a volatile area of northern Iraq was wounded by a roadside bomb attack on his motorcade on Sunday, police said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,174 (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 07:32 PM CDT

AP - As of Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, at least 4,174 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq, US close to deal on future of US troops (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 04:22 PM CDT

AFP - The United States and Iraq are close to an agreement on the presence of US troops in the country beyond 2008, the foreign ministers from the two countries said Saturday.

Senate sends $612 billion defense bill to Bush (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:47 PM CDT

AP - Troops would get a pay raise in a defense bill that Congress sent President Bush on Saturday. Even before passage, lawmakers had backed away from an election-season showdown with the administration over Iraq.

Iraq: Kurdish politician killed in disputed region (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 01:04 PM CDT

AP - Iraqi police fatally shot a Kurdish politician in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces Saturday, a killing that underlines the growing tensions between Kurds and Arabs in parts of the north.

U.S., Iraq say close to deal on security pact (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 12:17 PM CDT

Reuters - The United States and Iraq are close to reaching a long-delayed security deal, the foreign ministers of both countries said on Saturday.

Rice, Iraqi diplomat see progress on security deal (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 11:34 AM CDT

AP - Iraq and the United States are getting closer to completing an agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. troops in the country, the two nation's top diplomats said Saturday.

Man dies as Iraqi forces raid Kurdish peshmerga post (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 07:08 AM CDT

AFP - A member of the Kurdish peshmerga died when Iraqi police on Saturday raided a peshmerga security post in the troubled town of Jalawla, Salah Koikha, spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a leading Kurdish political party, told AFP.