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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Dismantling US military presence in Iraq looms as big task (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 09:20 PM CST

Iraqi and US soldiers in the northern city of Mosul. Dismantling the sprawling US military presence in Iraq will be a huge and complex undertaking, US military officials say, even in the three years allowed for the withdrawal of all US forces.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Dismantling the sprawling US military presence in Iraq will be a huge and complex undertaking, US military officials say, even in the three years allowed for the withdrawal of all US forces.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,203 (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:01 PM CST

File photo shows a US soldier in a watch tower in a patrol base in al-Adwaniyah on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. Dismantling the sprawling US military presence in Iraq will be a huge and complex undertaking, US military officials say, even in the three years allowed for the withdrawal of all US forces.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - As of Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, at least 4,203 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Sunni sheiks air grievances, but will work with Shiite-led government (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:36 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — The meeting was billed as a routine press conference to show off a new government center in this town west of Baghdad -- known to Iraqis for the infamous prison as well as for the deep distrust between the Shiite-led central government and the Sunni tribes that reside here.

Iraqi lawmakers vote on US security pact Wednesday (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:17 PM CST

Iraqis watch a session of parliament as it debates a U.S.-Iraqi security pact on television in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. Saturday's session is being shown live on national television and has been orderly so far. Chaotic scenes marred debate earlier this week when opposition lawmakers loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr disrupted the proceedings. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The Iraqi parliament will vote Wednesday on a pact that would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years, but the government's hopes of winning a wide margin of approval to ensure the deal's legitimacy appeared to be fading.

Iraq: Iranian detained by US has been released (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:59 PM CST

AP - An Iranian detained by U.S. forces at the Baghdad airport has been released, the Iraqi government said Saturday.

Pirates will infest Gulf if US quits Iraq too soon: minister (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:29 PM CST

Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim al-Obeidi, seen here in 2007, warned on Saturday that the Gulf would be infested by pirates and Iraq left at risk of attack by its neighbours if US forces leave the country too soon.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's defence minister warned on Saturday that the Gulf would be infested by pirates and Iraq left at risk of attack by its neighbours if US forces leave the country too soon.

Vote on US-Iraq pact set for Wednesday after stormy debate (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 11:11 AM CST

Purple smoke rises from a grenade as two helicopters arrive for waiting US soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad in May 2008. The Iraqi parliament will vote on November 26 on a controversial pact that will see US forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2011.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - Iraq's parliament is to vote on Wednesday after many hours of often stormy debate on a pact with Washington that would see US forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2011, its speaker said.

Iraq warns of consequences of early U.S. pullout (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 10:37 AM CST

A U.S. soldier stands guard in front of an Iraqi national flag painted on a wall during the opening of a local city council office in Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad, November 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)Reuters - Iraq's defense minister on Saturday warned of the dangers of withdrawing U.S. forces before the end of 2011, a date set with Washington in a security pact opposed by some lawmakers.

Iraq to vote Wednesday on US forces pact (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 09:24 AM CST

Purple smoke rises from a grenade as two helicopters arrive for waiting US soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad in May 2008. The Iraqi parliament will vote on November 26 on a controversial pact that will see US forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2011.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - The Iraqi parliament will vote on Wednesday on a controversial pact negotiated with Washington that would see US forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2011, its speaker said on Saturday.

Iraq's Kurdish areas prepare to ban female circumcision (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 05:34 AM CST

Iraqis attend a three-day conference on violence towards women in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil on November 19. Parliament in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan is preparing to outlaw female circumcision, according to a woman MP and doctor who has long battled to halt the widespread practice.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Parliament in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan is preparing to outlaw female circumcision, according to a woman MP and doctor who has long battled to halt the widespread practice.

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