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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Obama decision on Iraq troops 'soon': US military (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 05:03 PM CST

A US soldier in Baghdad. The US military has insisted it will be out of Iraqi cities by the end of June and indicated that President Barack Obama would announce AFP - The US military insisted on Sunday it would be out of Iraqi cities by the end of June and indicated that President Barack Obama would announce "shortly" if troops would be redeployed to Afghanistan.


Sunni lawmaker wanted in connection for Green Zone attacks (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 02:26 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A Sunni Arab lawmaker is wanted in connection for a string of retaliation attacks and mortar strikes on the fortress-like Green Zone compound after a pair of his senior bodyguards stepped forward with incriminating confessions, a military official said Sunday.

OIC chief meets Iraq PM in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 01:47 PM CST

In this handout made available by the Iraqi Prime Minister's office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) gives a gift to Organization of Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu during his visit to Baghdad. The head of the world's largest forum of Islamic nations, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, visited the Iraqi capital on Sunday and held talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.(AFP/HO)AFP - The head of the world's largest forum of Islamic nations, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, visited the Iraqi capital on Sunday and held talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.


Iraqi lawmaker faces charges as attack mastermind (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 01:30 PM CST

An Iraqi soldier keeps an eye on the bodyguards of Mohammed al-Dayni, a Sunni lawmaker, during a raid on his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for a al-Dayni, who is accused of masterminding a series of high-profile attacks, including mortar strikes on the Green Zone and a 2007 suicide bombing inside the parliament building, a military official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)AP - The confessions told of high-stakes terror and street-level thuggery: former bodyguards accused a combative Sunni lawmaker on Sunday of directing a wave of violence that ranged from a 2007 suicide blast inside the parliament building to kidnappings seeking just $30 ransoms.


Iraq accuses Sunni lawmaker of bomb attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 01:21 PM CST

Reuters - The government of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is seeking the arrest of a Sunni politician accused of masterminding a string of attacks including a suicide bombing inside the Iraqi parliament.

MP accused of ordering Iraq parliament suicide bomb (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 12:40 PM CST

Flowers at the chair of Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad in April 2007, a member of the small Sunni party National Front for Iraqi Dialogue who was killed in a bomb attack during a special session in Baghdad. A Sunni MP and ex-member of an elite Saddamist force was accused on Sunday of ordering a 2007 suicide bombing in the Iraqi parliament's canteen that killed eight people including a fellow lawmaker.(AFP/Pool/File/Ceerwan Aziz)AFP - A Sunni MP and ex-member of an elite Saddamist force was accused on Sunday of ordering a 2007 suicide bombing in the Iraqi parliament's canteen that killed eight people including a fellow lawmaker.


US, Iraqi forces launch anti-al-Qaida offensive (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 11:30 AM CST

An Iraqi soldier keeps an eye on the bodyguards of Mohammed al-Dayni, a Sunni lawmaker, during a raid on his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009. Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for a al-Dayni, who is accused of masterminding a series of high-profile attacks, including mortar strikes on the Green Zone and a 2007 suicide bombing inside the parliament building, a military official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces have begun a new military offensive in northern Iraq aimed at rooting out al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgents, American and Iraqi officials said Sunday.


Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib prison reopens (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 08:58 AM CST

An Iraqi detainee gestures through bars of his cell at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, 2004. The prison, which was made notorious by graphic pictures of abuse of inmates by US jailers, has reopened with top-of-the-range facilities and a new name, the justice ministry has said.(AFP/Pool/File/Damir Sagolj)AFP - Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, made notorious by graphic pictures of abuse of inmates by US jailers, has reopened with top-of-the-range facilities and a new name, the justice ministry said on Sunday.


U.S. and Iraq launch new bid to eradicate al Qaeda (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 08:12 AM CST

Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched a new military campaign they hope will put an end to a stubborn insurgency in restive Nineveh province, seen as a final holdout for Sunni Islamist militants, officials said on Sunday.

Iraq in budget battle to restore electricity (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 07:54 AM CST

Iraqi electoral employees count ballot forms by lamplight during a powercut after provincial elections on January 31. Iraq has won the battle to protect its battered electricity sector from insurgents but now faces a fight to fund its way to 24-hour coverage, Electricity Minister Karim Wahid has said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Iraq has won the battle to protect its battered electricity sector from insurgents but now faces a fight to fund its way to 24-hour coverage, Electricity Minister Karim Wahid said on Sunday.


Iraq's Maliki to make first Russia visit (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 07:45 AM CST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in Najaf earlier this month, is to make his first visit to Moscow for talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, a foreign ministry official has said.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to make his first visit to Moscow for talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, a foreign ministry official said on Sunday.


Iraqi president to visit Tehran (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 07:42 AM CST

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, seen here earlier this month, will visit Tehran this week on his second trip to the neighbouring country in almost two years, an Iranian news agency quoted an Iraqi official as saying.(AFP/File/Khalid Mohammed)AFP - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will visit Tehran this week, his second trip to the neighbouring country in almost two years, an Iranian news agency quoted an Iraqi official as saying on Sunday.


Iraq invites France back to build nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 02:05 AM CST

Electricity Minister Karim Wahid, pictured, on Sunday invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes.(AFP/Pool/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Electricity Minister Karim Wahid on Sunday invited France to help Iraq build a nuclear power plant, three decades after Paris constructed a reactor near Baghdad that was bombed by Israeli warplanes.


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