Yahoo! News: Iraq

Major political forces in Iraqi elections (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:04 AM CST AP - A look at the main political blocs in Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq.

Facts about Saturday's Iraqi election (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:02 AM CST AP - Facts and figures about Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq.

Voting begins in Iraq under tight security (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2009 01:00 AM CST AP - Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and police cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals.

Iraqis vote behind barbed wire, testing security (Reuters) Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:58 AM CST Reuters - Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country's fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence.

Iraqis vote in landmark election (AFP) Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:48 AM CST AFP - Iraqis were voting in provincial elections on Saturday in a crucial test for a nation struggling to emerge from years of sectarian strife and strengthen its fledgling democracy.

Blackwater's Iraq deal not to be renewed (AP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 09:16 PM CST AP - The State Department said Friday it will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,236 (AP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:16 PM CST AP - As of Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, at least 4,236 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

U.S. will not renew Blackwater contract in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST Reuters - The U.S. State Department has told Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm whose guards are accused of killing Iraqi civilians while protecting U.S. diplomats, that it will not renew its contract in Iraq.

Iraq's oil-rich Basra has endured hard times (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:01 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BASRA, Iraq — When masked militiamen kidnapped Aqeel Hatab Urmash on May 15, 2007, they burned him with cigarettes, beat him and shot him twice in the left leg. Doctors amputated his leg above the knee.

Obama watching Iraq vote, plans new approach soon (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:12 PM CST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama is watching this weekend's elections in Iraq and will decide soon on an approach that will likely lead to a drawdown of U.S. forces there, the White House said on Friday.

Iraq elections 'significant milestone': US (AFP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:16 PM CST AFP - US President Barack Obama will be watching the results in Iraq's elections which he sees as a "significant milestone" in the country's fledgling democracy, the White House said Friday.

Killing of Iraqi candidates highlights dangers (AP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:05 PM CST AP - The former Iraqi army officer decided to run in provincial elections to improve Mosul, his violent hometown. Instead, the Sunni father of four was gunned down days before the vote, the latest example of the dangers facing candidates campaigning openly for the first time since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Spotlight on vote-buying on eve of Iraqi ballot (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:18 PM CST Reuters - On the eve of Iraq's provincial polls, reports of attempts to buy votes and fears about fraud threaten to cast a shadow over an otherwise vibrant campaign that will test the country's growing security.

Iraq encouraged by US reassurances, minister says (AP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:13 PM CST AP - Iraq's foreign minister said Friday his government is very encouraged by reassurances from the new U.S. administration that there will be no quick withdrawal of American forces or irresponsible decisions regarding his country.

Female candidate runs to make change in her life, in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:07 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The face of Islam Abbas Faraj, 36, isn't among those on the campaign posters that blanket the walls of Iraq's Diyala province, a stew of Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs and Sunni Kurds north of Baghdad.

Iraq Christian candidate hopes he lives to see voting day (AFP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:05 PM CST AFP - Sami Habib Istifo, a Christian candidate in Iraq's provincial elections, has already lined up a replacement in case he is killed before voting day tomorrow.

Air Force to train combat docs to use acupuncture (AP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:13 AM CST AP - Chief Warrant Officer James Brad Smith broke five ribs, punctured a lung and shattered bones in his hand and thigh after falling more than 20 feet from a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad last month.

Elections a heated, divisive issue in Iraqi homes (AFP) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:34 AM CST AFP - Members of the large Chamari family are deeply divided on who to vote for in this weekend's elections in Iraq, a big change from 2005 when the country last went to the polls.

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