Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq, Iran to exchange remains of 1980s war dead (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 03:05 AM CDT

AFP - Iraq and Iran are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the 1980-88 war between the two countries, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.

US deaths in Iraq plunge to wartime low in October (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 01:00 AM CDT

AP - U.S. deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, matching the record low of 13 fatalities suffered in July. Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the year. Eight of the 13 Americans died in combat, most of them in northern Iraq where al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgent groups remain active. The U.S. military suffered 25 deaths in September and 23 in August.

Iraq says to show U.S. troops pact to neighbors (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:43 PM CDT

Reuters - Iraq will send delegations to neighboring countries to explain a pact with the United States allowing U.S. troops to remain on its territory for three years, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office said on Friday.

Maliki to show neighbours US-Iraq military pact (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:03 PM CDT

AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday he will submit the text of the controversial security pact with the United States to all of his country's neighbours.

In Iraq, U.S. Marines Rely on Allies Like a Hatchet-Wielding Colonel to Keep the Peace (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:33 PM CDT

U.S. News & World Report - RAMADI, IRAQ--Col. Ahmed Hamid Sharqi was many things--businessman, smuggler, policeman for Saddam Hussein. Now, the U.S. marines stationed here consider him one of their greatest assets in keeping the streets of the capital of Anbar province--only recently some of the most dangerous in the world--safe.

US soldiers in Iraq focus on war in voting (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:22 PM CDT

AP - Car bombs rather than Obama, making it home rather than McCain dominate the talk among many U.S. soldiers in Iraq's deadliest city during the final countdown to America's presidential election.

AP poll: 1 in 7 voters still persuadable (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:53 PM CDT

AP - Elizabeth Johnson likes John McCain except for a couple of not-so-little things she can't ignore: She wants the Iraq war to end and she's not a fan of Sarah Palin, his running mate. Chalk her up as leaning McCain, but not solidly.

Al Qaeda militant said killed in U.S. Pakistan strike (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:41 PM CDT

Reuters - U.S. missile strikes in northwest Pakistan killed up to 20 people on Friday, including a mid-level al Qaeda leader said to be an Iraqi, Pakistani officials said.

Iraq, Iran to swap bodies from war (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:29 PM CDT

AP - Iraq's government spokesman says Iraq and Iran have agreed to exchange bodies of soldiers killed during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

Parts of US-Iraq military pact still to be clarified: minister (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 12:30 PM CDT

AFP - Some points in the draft security accord between Iraq and the United States still have to be clarified, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an interview published Friday.

Pentagon chief: Afghan war strategy lacking (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT

AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday welcomed David Petraeus as the new chief of Central Command with responsibility for America's two wars, saying he hopes the general will help bring needed coherence to the U.S. and allied strategy in an increasingly volatile Afghanistan.

Insurgents 'blow up Baghdad water pipeline' (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 10:01 AM CDT

AFP - Insurgents have blown up a water pipeline in Baghdad's Sunni bastion of Adhamiyah, disrupting supply of potable water to hundreds of thousands of residents, the US military said Friday.

Iraqi forces arrest 220 suspects in al Qaeda raid (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:51 AM CDT

Reuters - Iraqi forces hunting al Qaeda members arrested 220 people in a raid in western Anbar province, a former insurgent stronghold, the province's police chief and the U.S. military said Friday.

Iraqi Christians slowly returning home to Mosul (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:45 AM CDT

AP - Iraqi Christians have started to trickle home to the restive city of Mosul in recent days as attacks against them have tapered off, authorities said Friday.

US says 39 Iranian-funded 'criminals' arrested in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 08:37 AM CDT

AFP - The US military said on Friday it had arrested 39 Iranian-sponsored "criminals" in Iraq this month and had seized some 500,000 dollars meant to fund militancy in the war-wracked country.