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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Bombs, sectarian tensions still scar Iraq's Diyala (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:17 AM CDT

A boy walks down a street as U.S. army soldiers attached to Eagle Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment patrol a street in southern Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A month into a U.S.-backed Iraqi security operation, the Diyala provincial capital and surrounding towns remain scarred by sectarian tensions and violence. Diyala has proven one of the toughest pieces of Iraqi real estate to control. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)AP - The government offices in Iraq's Diyala province are encased in thick blast walls, a shield against suicide bombings. Nearby buildings are pockmarked from fighting between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents.

US says 11,000 Iraq detainees freed this year (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 01:46 AM CDT

Detainees are seen at Camp Cropper, a Coalition forces internment facility in western Baghdad, in February. The US military on Saturday said it has released 11,000 detainees from its prisons in Iraq so far this year.(AFP/HO/File/Michael V. May.)AFP - The US military on Saturday said it has released 11,000 detainees from its prisons in Iraq so far this year. "These men, once considered a security threat to Iraqi civilians, as well as coalition and Iraqi forces, have completed their internment and can go on to lead productive lives," the military said in a statement.

Should Iraq Prosecute US Soldiers? (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 11:35 PM CDT

Time.com - As Washington negotiates a new status for American forces in Iraq, Bahgdad poses a new test for to a longstanding U.S. military practice

Source: Petraeus submitted preliminary Iraq report (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 02:59 PM CDT

AP - The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a U.S. troop withdrawal and at what pace, a senior military officer close to the process said Friday.

Iraq's Palestinians still live in fear (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 12:52 PM CDT

A Palestinian girl pushes a baby in a stroller through the Palestinian housing complex comprising of 16 apartment blocks, lined by two streets of shops, most of them closed, in the Baladiyat district of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. In recent months sectarian violence has dropped sharply across Iraq, however Iraq's Palestinians, who number about 11,000 and have come under attack by Shiite gunmen in the past, remain one of the most vulnerable groups, a U.N. official says. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Omar Ahmed rarely emerges from his rundown Baghdad housing project. When he does, he leaves behind the Iraqi-issued ID card that marks him as a Palestinian and switches to the Iraqi dialect of Arabic at police checkpoints.

Loyalists of Iraq's Sadr sign blood oaths to continue fighting (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:56 AM CDT

Iraqi Shiites flash the V for 'victory' sign in front of a portrait ofMoqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City on the outskirts of Baghdad. Dozens of Shiite radicals scrambled to sign blood oaths to continue their fight against US forces in Iraq despite an order from al-Sadr for them to lay down their arms.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)AFP - Dozens of Shiite radicals scrambled on Friday to sign blood oaths to continue their fight against US forces in Iraq despite an order from their leader Moqtada al-Sadr for them to lay down their arms.

Iraqi girl tells of ordeal as suicide bomber (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:02 AM CDT

Iraqi police remove a suicide vest from an Iraqi girl in Baquba in this handout photo from the Iraqi police taken August 24, 2008. (Iraqi Police/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Rania is only 15-years old, but in the past week the softly spoken Iraqi girl has been drugged, strapped with explosives, arrested by men she nearly blew up and then shoved into a detention centre.

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