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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Obama poised to put imprint on Iraq, Afghan wars (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 03:02 AM CST

US President Barack Obama gives his inaugural address during his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, DC. The world on Tuesday embraced the Barack Obama era but the leaders that the new US president will have to deal with also warned him of the difficulties ahead.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)AP - President Barack Obama will begin to put his imprint on the nation's war strategy in his first full day in office, gathering his top military and national security advisers at the White House for what is expected to be the start of the new commander in chief's shift in emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan.


Iraq willing to see US troops leave early (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST

A policeman stands guard near residents looking at a burnt vehicle at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad January 19, 2009. The roadside bomb killed an off-duty police officer and wounded seven people in Zaafaraniya district of southeast of Baghdad on Monday, police said.  REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)AP - Iraq is willing to have the U.S. withdraw its troops and assume security for the country before the end of 2011, the departure date agreed to by former President George W. Bush, the Iraqi prime minister's spokesman said.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,229 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 07:12 PM CST

U.S. military commander in Iraq General David Petraeus smiles during a farewell ceremony for him at the Ministry of Defence in Baghdad September 15, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)AP - As of Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at least 4,229 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Women may win seats, not rights, in Iraqi poll (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:46 PM CST

Election campaign posters of women candidates are seen in Baghdad January 19, 2009. More than a quarter of the 14,431 candidates registered in Iraq's upcoming provincial council elections are women. But when Fatma Imad a 20-year-old college student, looks at the posters plastered across her neighbourhood, she doesn't see any that look like her. To match feature IRAQ/ELECTION-WOMEN (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - More than a quarter of the 14,431 candidates registered for Iraq's provincial council elections are women, but college student Fatma Imad sees few women's faces on the posters plastered across her neighborhood.


Iraq attacks kill seven, wound 22 (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:24 PM CST

An unidentified Iraqi police officer grieves during the funeral of fellow police Colonel Adbulmajid Mohammed killed by an explosive device planted under his car in al-Zubair, near Basra. Seven people died and at least 22 were wounded in a string of attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, highlighting the continuing violence as new US President Barack Obama pledged to AFP - Seven people died and at least 22 were wounded in a string of attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, highlighting the continuing violence as new US President Barack Obama pledged to "leave Iraq to its people."


Tears, cheers for new president (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:19 PM CST

U.S. Army Sgt. James Bishop, center, and other soldiers from the 229th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. 'My mother always wanted to be here,' said Bishop, 39, an African-American from Washington, D.C., who wiped away tears as he watched. 'She always wanted this to happen, and she said it was going to happen one day,' he said. 'Unfortunately, she passed before this time came.' Across Iraq, many of the 140,000 U.S. service members here watched the inaugural ceremony on television sets in dining halls and break rooms or on the Web at large installations with Internet service. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Army Sgt. James Bishop wiped away tears while he watched Barack Obama take the presidential oath Tuesday and wished his mother had lived to see a fellow black assume their nation's highest office.


Descendants of Iraq's black rebels celebrate Obama inauguration (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:16 PM CST

Jalal Dhiab, 43, secretary of the AFP - The Iraqi descendants of black slaves celebrated Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, calling it a victory for equality and democracy.


US troops in Iraq shed tears of joy for Obama (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST

A US soldier cries as he watches the live televised inauguration ceremony for US President Barack Obama in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. T(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - US Sergeant Carla Bruce cried tears of joy and beamed with pride as she watched Barack Obama take office as America's first black president from Iraq's Camp Liberty.


Iraq bringing home Saddam yacht (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:32 PM CST

In this Feb. 13, 2008 file photo, the 82-meter (269-feet) Ocean Breeze, built in 1981 by Danish shipyard Helsingor Vaerft for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, is seen docked in the harbour at Nice, France.  Iraq's government says it has decided to tow Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht to its southern port of Basra after winning a legal dispute over its ownership. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)AP - Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht will be towed from Greece to a port in southern Iraq after the resolution of a legal dispute over its ownership, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.


Obama vows responsible end to Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 01:36 PM CST

The front pages of Kenya national newspapers in Nairobi Kenya. Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009 covering the inauguration of President Barack Obama as America's 44th President. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)AP - Barack Obama is vowing to "responsibly leave Iraq to its people" and also to build what he calls a "hard-earned peace in Afghanistan."


Obama says US to begin to responsibly leave Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 11:42 AM CST

Barack Obama is greeted moments before being sworn in as 44th US president at the US Capitol in Washington. Obama said Tuesday that the United States will AFP - New US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States will "begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan."


Obama to discuss Iraq troop drawdown on Wednesday (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 09:53 AM CST

A U.S. soldier stands guard during a police graduation ceremony at Al-Furat Iraqi Police Training Centre in Baghdad January 14, 2009. (Saad Shalash/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama on Wednesday will meet top defense and military officials for the first time as president to discuss the possibility of accelerating the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq, officials said.


Arab ministers fail to reach consensus on Gaza: Iraqi minister (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 05:58 AM CST

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari attends an emergency meeting on Gaza in Kuwait City, January 16. Arab foreign ministers meeting on the sidelines of an Arab economic summit failed on Tuesday to reach consensus on a final statement on Israel's war on Gaza, Zebari has said.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - Arab foreign ministers meeting on the sidelines of an Arab economic summit failed on Tuesday to reach consensus on a final statement on Israel's war on Gaza, Iraq's foreign minister said.


Meeting of Arab leaders on Gaza ends in discord (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 11:59 AM CST

President Hosni Mubarak, of Egypt, King Abdullah  of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah, Amir of Kuwait and Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of Qatar, from left, walk in to the Arab Economic Summit at the Bayan Palace in Kuwait, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  The Saudi king said an Arab initiative offering peace with Israel will not remain on the table forever.  King Abdullah says Israel has to understand that the choice between war and peace will not always stay open.(AP Photo/Ameeri Diwan)AP - Arab leaders trying to come up with a plan to rebuild Gaza ended their meeting Tuesday in discord, unable to agree on whether to back Egyptian peace efforts or even set up a joint reconstruction fund for the devastated Palestinian territory.


Iraqis eager for first polls since 2005 (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 04:15 AM CST

Residents walk in front of election campaign posters plastered on a wall in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad January 7, 2009. (Mohanned Faisal/Reuters)Reuters - In the years since Iraqis last brandished fingers stained with purple ink to show the world they had voted in a free election, their country has plunged deeper into, and slowly climbed out of, brutal sectarian war.


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