| Iraq's Sunni anti-Qaeda patrols fear for future (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:35 AM CDT  Reuters - At a checkpoint consisting of a wooden shack wrapped in steel sheets, five young Iraqis with AK-47 rifles have the task of stopping al Qaeda bombers striking the ancient city of Samarra.
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| Bush, Iraqi leader co-host thank-you for coalition (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:15 AM CDT  AP - The coalition of the willing that went to war in Iraq is becoming the coalition of the disappearing.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,170 (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 09:12 PM CDT  AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, at least 4,170 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| US moves to drop contempt case against 2 Marines (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT AP - Prosecutors want to drop contempt proceedings against two Marines who refused to testify against their former squad leader when he was being tried for the killings of four unarmed Iraqi detainees. |
| US soldiers accidentally kill Sunni leader in Iraq (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 02:07 PM CDT  AP - American soldiers accidentally shot and killed the leader of a local U.S.-allied Sunni group Tuesday after coming under attack in a volatile area north of Baghdad, the military said.
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| In parting shot, Bush warns UN must reform (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 01:27 PM CDT  AFP - Six years after bluntly warning the United Nations it risked irrelevance for not backing the Iraq war, US President George W. Bush on Tuesday hailed the world body's "extraordinary potential."
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| Iraqi team train at home for first time since fall of Saddam (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 01:01 PM CDT  AFP - The Iraqi national football team was seen training in Baghdad on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein five years ago.
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| Pentagon chief urges caution in Iraq pullout (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 12:20 PM CDT  Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday urged the next U.S. president, who will take office in January, to proceed cautiously in withdrawing troops from Iraq despite an 80 percent drop in violence there.
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| World heritage status for Iraq's bombed shrine city: government (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 12:03 PM CDT  AFP - The central Iraqi Sunni city of Samarra which houses a revered Shiite mosque that was bombed by Al-Qaeda has been selected as a world heritage site, the government said on Tuesday.
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| EU urged to take in more Iraqi refugees (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 12:02 PM CDT  AFP - Rights groups called Tuesday on the European Union to take in more refugees from Iraq, two days ahead of a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers in Brussels.
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| Shell, Iraq seal $4 billion gas deal (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 09:46 AM CDT  AFP - Royal Dutch Shell has formally signed a gas joint venture with an Iraqi state-owned company estimated to be worth four billion dollars, a top government oil official said on Tuesday.
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| Three killed in Iraq roadside blasts (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2008 07:38 AM CDT  AFP - At least three people were killed in roadside bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday after insurgents bombed the house of a Sunni MP in the northern city of Mosul in a separate attack, officials said.
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