Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,284 (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - As of Saturday, May 2, 2009, at least 4,284 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Anatomy of an `inside' ambush in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 03:14 PM PDT

AP - U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police had just sat down for lunch inside a police building in Mosul. Flak vests and other protective gear were removed.

Two American soldiers shot dead by uniformed Iraqi: US (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 11:04 AM PDT

AFP - Two American soldiers were shot dead and three more were wounded on Saturday when an Iraqi wearing army uniform opened fire on them south of the northern town of Mosul, the US military said.

Reclusive Iraqi cleric al-Sadr visits Turkey (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT

AP - An Iraqi cleric who led bloody rebellions against U.S. troops but stayed out of public view in the last two years has made an unusually visible appearance in Turkey, which is raising its own profile as a mediator in the region.

Iraq culls three wild pigs at Baghdad zoo (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 10:38 AM PDT

AFP - Three wild pigs at Baghdad zoo were slaughtered on Saturday amid concerns that swine flu could spread to Iraq, officials said.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in northern Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 09:40 AM PDT

Reuters - An attacker wearing an Iraqi army uniform shot and killed two U.S. soldiers outside the volatile northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

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Posted: 02 May 2009 09:27 AM PDT

AP - US military: 2 US soldiers killed when man in Iraqi army uniform opens fire near Mosul.

Iraq radical cleric meets fellow Shiites (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 07:29 AM PDT

AFP - Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday met with some 70 co-religionists in Istanbul, including members of the Iraqi parliament, Anatolia news agency quoted an aide as saying.

CORRECTED: Two Iraqis killed after U.S. forces are attacked (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 07:05 AM PDT

Reuters - (Corrects BAGHDAD story moved on April 28 deleting comments by police officials that two people killed in incident were civilians. It also corrects date to April 29 from April 28)

Iran shells Kurdish rebel positions in north Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:52 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran shelled Kurdish rebel positions in a remote area of northern Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region Saturday, a spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga border guards said.

US-allied Iraqi militia strikes over late pay (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:39 AM PDT

AFP - Some 120 members of a US-backed Sunni Arab militia abandoned their posts at dozens of checkpoints south of Baghdad on Saturday, saying they had not been paid their monthly salaries.

Iraq says mosque attacker close to Qaeda boss (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:53 AM PDT

AFP - A would-be suicide bomber who tried to blow himself up near a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk has been identified as a Syrian close to the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, police said on Saturday.

Iran helicopters strike Iraq Kurd villages (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:20 AM PDT

AFP - Iranian helicopters attacked three Iraqi Kurdish villages in a cross-border raid on Saturday, a border guard official said, the first time Iran has used aircraft against Kurdish rebels.

New candidate emerges among Iraq's Kurds (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 12:44 AM PDT

AP - Time for "Change" for Iraq's Kurds? A new, independent candidate is taking up the slogan to woo Iraqi Kurds disenchanted over the two-party political divide in their oil-rich semiautonomous region in northern Iraq.