| US military hands 13th province over to Iraqis (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:55 AM CDT  AP - The U.S. military has handed over security responsibilities for the southern province of Wasit to Iraqi authorities.
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| SKorea to withdraw troops from Iraq in December (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:49 AM CDT AP - South Korea says it will bring home all military personnel remaining in Iraq by Dec. 20. |
| Syria asks U.N. council to prevent new U.S. attacks (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:40 AM CDT  Reuters - Syria called on the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action to prevent a repeat of a weekend U.S. attack on Syrian territory, and to hold the United States accountable.
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| Iraq takes control of Wasit province from US (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:57 AM CDT  AFP - Iraq took security control of the central Shiite province of Wasit from the US military on Wednesday, making it the 13th of the country's 18 provinces to be returned to Baghdad.
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| SKorea to withdraw troops from Iraq in December: ministry (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:55 AM CDT  AFP - South Korean troops will quit Iraq in December, officials said Wednesday, ending the deployment of what was once the third largest foreign force in the war-torn country.
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| Next president faces unknowns on Iraq (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:16 AM CDT  AP - When they talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama and John McCain speak with the certainty of men who know what they believe and what they plan to do. Good luck on that: Reality is sure to tangle and vastly complicate the next president's job no matter who wins.
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| Iraqi court sentences militant to death for killing US soldiers (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:14 AM CDT  AFP - An Iraqi court has sentenced a militant to death after finding him guilty of killing three US soldiers in 2006, the American military said in a statement on Wednesday.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,188 (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 07:21 PM CDT AP - As of Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, at least 4,188 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. |
| U.S. unlikely to accept revised Iraq security pact (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 06:45 PM CDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD The Iraqi cabinet agreed Tuesday to amend a draft agreement governing the status of U.S. forces in Iraq, but introducing new provisions that the U.S. military is unlikely to accept. |
| Barzani says Iraq-US security pact dominates his talks with Rice (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 06:33 PM CDT  AFP - Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's northern Kurdish government, said his talks on Tuesday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice focused on a controversial draft Iraq-US military pact.
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| Syria closes U.S. institutions after raid (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 05:22 PM CDT  Reuters - Syria decided on Tuesday to close an American school and a cultural center in Damascus, in an apparent response to a U.S. military raid that the authorities said killed eight civilians.
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| AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida's route though Syria persists (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:33 PM CDT  AP - For years, he operated along Syria's remote border where donkeys are the only means of travel. He provided young Arabs from as far away as Morocco and the Persian Gulf with passports, guides and weapons as they slipped into Iraq to wage war.
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| Iraqi may hang for murders of 2 U.S. soldiers (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 02:55 PM CDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD An alleged al Qaida in Iraq member should be hanged for his role in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and execution of two American soldiers, an Iraqi court decided Tuesday. |
| Iraq denounces Syria raid, seeks U.S. pact changes (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 02:12 PM CDT  Reuters - Iraq drew up amendments on Tuesday that it will demand of the United States in a bid to salvage an agreement allowing U.S. forces to remain beyond the end of this year.
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| Iraqi militant to hang for killing US soldiers (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:56 PM CDT  AP - An Iraqi militant accused of killing three American soldiers in a grisly checkpoint ambush was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to death by hanging. Two other men accused in the 2006 deaths were acquitted.
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| Syria protests to UN over US raid (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:51 PM CDT  AFP - Syria on Tuesday protested to the UN Security Council over what it branded a barbarous US helicopter raid on a village near the Iraqi border and decided to close two American institutions in Damascus.
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| Jurors hear start of alleged plot in Fort Dix case (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 05:59 PM CDT  AP - The paid informant who helped build the case against five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers in New Jersey took the witness stand Tuesday, but much of what jurors heard from him came in the form of secretly taped conversations with one of the accused.
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| US: Iraq security pact is 'best offer' (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:24 PM CDT  AFP - The White House poured cold water Tuesday on Iraq's push to reopen talks on a controversial accord governing the US troop presence there beyond December, calling the existing pact its "best offer."
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| Iraqi antiquities seized in Lebanon: customs (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 12:08 PM CDT  AFP - Lebanese customs agents have seized dozens of stolen Iraqi antiquities including statues, pottery and stone carvings, from two smugglers along the Syrian-Lebanese border, officials said on Tuesday.
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| Iraq PM to negotiate changes in US security pact (AFP) Posted: 28 Oct 2008 11:36 AM CDT  AFP - The Iraqi cabinet on Tuesday authorised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to negotiate changes in the security pact with Washington that sets a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces.
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