Yahoo! News: Iraq

Will Iraq Crack Down on Sex Trafficking? (Time.com) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 03:05 PM PDT Time.com - A draft law is finally in the works, but the government doesn't seem to be consulting the organizations that are fighting trafficking

Iraqi Islamists claim credit for deadly attack on U.S. soldiers (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 02:26 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — A radical Islamist group thought to be a front for al Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a Friday suicide bombing that killed five U.S. soldiers in the northern city of Mosul.

US sergeant pleads not guilty to murder in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:29 PM PDT AFP - US Master Sergeant John E. Hatley pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges that included what a prosecutor has termed the "execution-style" shootings of prisoners in Iraq.

US soldier pleads not guilty at court-martial (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:11 PM PDT AP - The lawyer for a U.S. Army soldier accused of masterminding the execution of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners in 2007 said Monday that physical evidence of the crime did not exist as he cast doubt on the murder charges.

Iraq, once a country of fervent readers, now starves for books (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 11:43 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — When Maysoon Kadhim began working on her master's thesis at Baghdad University two years ago, she braced for the challenge. After all, her paper's subject is Shakespeare, whose prose can perplex even native English speakers.

Fair in Iraqi holy city draws Turkish traders (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 11:13 AM PDT AFP - Representatives from more than 60 Turkish companies gathered in Iraq's shrine city Najaf on Monday for a trade fair aimed at drawing foreign investment back to the war-torn country.

Iraq accuses media of provoking strife (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 10:39 AM PDT AP - Iraq's Shiite-led government criticized foreign and Iraqi media Monday for reports about recent arrests of U.S.-backed Sunni paramilitaries, accusing news organizations of stoking religious tension and threatening national unity.

Georgia soldier faces hearing in Iraq slayings (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 10:35 AM PDT AP - An Army sergeant charged with murder shouted "My career's over, just kill me," as soldiers pinned him to the ground after he shot and killed two fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, members of their unit told a military judge Monday.

Abbas visits Iraq's Kurdish region (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 10:22 AM PDT AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday met Kurdish regional government leader Massud Barzani in a visit aimed at cementing ties between the two largest stateless peoples in the Middle East.

Iraq roadside bomb kills US soldier (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 07:18 AM PDT AFP - A US soldier was killed in central Iraq on Monday when a sophisticated roadside bomb tore through his convoy, the US military said.

US mil: Soldier killed by roadside bomb (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 06:20 AM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed by an armor-piercing bomb south of Baghdad.

Somber return for 5 soldiers killed in Mosul, Iraq (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:40 AM PDT AP - On a chilly Easter night, two days after his son and four of his fellow soldiers were killed in Iraq, David Pautsch watched their remains arrive on a jumbo jet during a somber, half-hour ceremony.

Russia's Lukoil to send team to Iraq for talks (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2009 11:34 PM PDT AFP - A delegation from Russia's Lukoil will soon visit Iraq to discuss reactivating a multibillion-dollar exploration contract, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in an interview published Monday.

Bodies of US troops killed in Iraq arrive home (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2009 10:18 PM PDT AFP - The remains of five US troops killed Friday in a suicide bombing in Iraq arrived at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, in the fourth transfer of bodies since media coverage was allowed a week ago.

An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay (Time.com) Posted: 12 Apr 2009 07:40 PM PDT Time.com - Invited in by Saddam Hussein, a group on the U.S. terrorist list is under increasing pressure from the Baghdad government to disappear

US general Odierno: Iraq violence low (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2009 07:02 PM PDT AFP - The United States will meet a 2011 deadline to pull its combat forces out of Iraq, the top coalition leader in the country said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,272 (AP) Posted: 12 Apr 2009 05:41 PM PDT AP - As of Sunday, April 12, 2009, at least 4,272 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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