Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi party suspends ties with U.S. over raid (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 06:18 PM CDT Reuters - Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab political party suspended all dealings with U.S. civilian and military personnel on Saturday after U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out a raid in which a man was killed.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,187 (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 06:14 PM CDT AP - As of Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, at least 4,187 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Powerful Iraqi party claims U.S. killed innocent man (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 05:07 PM CDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The most powerful Sunni Muslim party in Iraq issued an angry statement Saturday accusing Americans of covering up the killing of an innocent member of the party.

Military pact traps Baghdad between US demands and Iranian fears (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 04:45 PM CDT AFP - As the United States and Iraq approach a deal on the future US military presence in the country, Baghdad is trapped between Washington's demands and Tehran's fears about US influence in the region, politicians and analysts say.

Iraqi Sunni bloc breaks ties with US after killing (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:39 PM CDT AFP - A leading Iraqi Sunni political bloc, said on Saturday it is breaking ties with US forces in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah after troops killed one of its members.

Iraq's main Sunni party suspends contacts with US (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:32 PM CDT AP - Iraq's largest Sunni party said Saturday that it has suspended official contacts with American military personnel and civilians after the killing of a man near Fallujah.

Hezbollah chief denies report he was poisoned (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 07:15 AM CDT AFP - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday denied an Iraqi website report that he had been poisoned and then saved by Iranian doctors, calling it "psychological warfire" against his group.

US Iraq general to help Turkey fight Kurd rebels (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 04:49 AM CDT AFP - General Raymond Odierno, chief of American forces in Iraq, has visited Turkey to discuss plans to cooperate in fighting rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the US military said on Saturday.

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