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Syria condemns U.S. raid as outrageous crime: report (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:35 AM CDT Reuters - Syria accused the United States on Monday of committing an "outrageous crime" in killing eight civilians during a helicopter attack on a Syrian farm near the border with Iraq.

Iraq hopes Syria raid won't harm relations (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:13 AM CDT AP - A senior Iraqi official says Iraq hopes that an alleged U.S. raid into Syria will not harm Baghdad's relations with Damascus.

Iraq updates Hussein-era Air Force (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT The Christian Science Monitor - After only five months in the Iraqi Air Force's new training program, Lt. Haider Jasim has already gotten more time behind the yoke of a plane than the average pilot in Saddam Hussein's Air Force got all year. Old regime flyers spent most of their time on the ground due to limited resources following the Gulf War in 1991.

Syrian diplomat says U.S. raid "outrageous crime": report (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:16 AM CDT Reuters - An alleged U.S. attack on a Syrian village near the border with Iraq was an "outrageous crime," a Syrian diplomat told the BBC.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Woes in Iraq sewage project (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 11:06 PM CDT AP - Stinking sewage runs through rutted and pocked streets in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,188 (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT AP - As of Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, at least 4,188 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. threatens to halt services to Iraq without troop accord (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 05:06 PM CDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn't agree to a new agreement on the status of U.S. forces or a renewed United Nations mandate for the American mission in Iraq.

US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 06:26 PM CDT AP - U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."

Anger at cleric's 'no dancing' call in Iraqi holy city (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 02:28 PM CDT AFP - A cleric's call to ban partying and dancing in the Shiite holy city of Karbala has triggered a heated debate among residents, just when they had begun living without fear of hardline militias.

Bush leaves successor a world of trouble (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:31 PM CDT AFP - US President George W. Bush's successor inherits a world of troubles come January, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a defiant Iran, and a US economy battered by the global financial crisis.

Helicopters attack border point with Iraq: Syria (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:07 PM CDT Reuters - Syria said on Sunday unidentified helicopters attacked a Syrian border point with Iraq, causing casualties.

Iraqi Cabinet delays decision on US security pact (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 12:54 PM CDT AP - Iraq's Cabinet delayed a decision Sunday on the draft security agreement that would keep American troops here for three more years, and one prominent lawmaker suggested some parties may be stalling until after the U.S. election on Nov. 4.

Pope decries Christians' killings in Iraq, India (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 08:51 AM CDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI decried the killing of Christians in Iraq and India and appealed on Sunday for political and religious leaders to defend them.

Iraqis await resurrection of scarred Mosul (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 04:51 AM CDT Reuters - Five years of war have reduced much of Mosul to rubble, and U.S. and Iraqi authorities are pledging to deliver on long-time promises to rebuild as they launch a new campaign to rout a stubborn insurgency.

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