Yahoo! News: Iraq

US troops to stay in Iraqi cities after June (AP)

Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:30 AM CST

AP - Some American troops will remain in Iraqi cities after a June 30 deadline for combat soldiers to leave urban areas, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.

Commander: Some US troops to stay in Iraqi cities (AP)

Posted: 14 Dec 2008 12:23 AM CST

AP - U.S. troops will stay in cities to support and train Iraqis despite a summer deadline to pull American combat forces, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday, a move that could leave thousands in the urban areas.

Commander: Troops to stay in cities past deadline (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:36 PM CST

AP - U.S. troops will remain in Iraqi cities at local security stations, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday, a move that could leave thousands in the urban areas despite a summer deadline to have combat troops out.

U.S. troops may be in Iraqi cities beyond next June (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:03 PM CST

Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some U.S. troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a U.S.-Iraq security pact calls for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from urban areas by then.

Iraq's reconstruction a 100-billion failure: report (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 09:33 PM CST

AFP - An unpublished US government report says US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq were crippled by bureaucratic turf wars, violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society, resulting in a 100-billion-dollar failure, The New York Times reported on its website.

New report slams U.S. reconstruction of Iraq: report (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 08:00 PM CST

Reuters - An unpublished federal draft report depicts the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100 billion failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 06:19 PM CST

AP - As of Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqis hurt in bomb blast treated in Turkey (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 01:14 PM CST

AFP - Fourteen Iraqis wounded in a bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have been flown to Turkey for treatment, the Turkish foreign ministry said Saturday.

US attorneys visit Iraqis in Blackwater shooting (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 01:11 PM CST

AP - U.S. prosecutors visited on Saturday the site of last year's shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead in a Baghdad square and briefed victims' families about the case against Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted in the deadly incident.

U.S. prosecutors in Iraq Blackwater case meet victims (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 11:53 AM CST

Reuters - Some of the Iraqi victims of a shooting by security guards working for American security firm Blackwater said they had faith in the U.S. legal system after meeting federal prosecutors in Baghdad on Saturday.

US prosecutors meet Blackwater case families (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 10:02 AM CST

AFP - Three US federal prosecutors on Saturday in Baghdad met families of Iraqi victims in the case of Blackwater security guards charged with killing 14 civilians.

US troops to stay in Iraq cities: commander (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 08:47 AM CST

AFP - US troops will stay in Iraqi cities in a support and training role even after a June target date set for a pullback by a new security agreement between the two governments, the top US commander in Iraq said on Saturday.

Iraq repeats debt-cancellation plea (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 07:30 AM CST

AFP - Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh reiterated on Saturday a call for Iraq's creditors to cancel the foreign debt of the country that was accumulated by the former regime.

US defence chief in surprise visit to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 05:30 AM CST

AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew in to Iraq for a surprise visit on Saturday for talks with military commander General Raymond Odierno, an AFP correspondent travelling with him said.