Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,316 (AP)
• US, Iraq renovating looted Baghdad amusement park (AP)
• At least 24 Iraqis killed, 78 wounded in countrywide attacks (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Bombings and shootings kill more than 30 in Iraq (AP)
• Bombings kill at least 27 in Iraq (Reuters)
• 31 killed in Iraq attacks as US pullback looms (AFP)
• Unrest could hinder Tehran's regional goals (AP)
• Brown urges Iraq hostage takers to release Britons (Reuters)
• Seven killed in car bombing near Baghdad (AFP)
• Iraq pullout: Some US soldiers likely to stay behind in Mosul (The Christian Science Monitor)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,316 (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:12 PM PDT AP - As of Monday, June 22, 2009, at least 4,316 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

US, Iraq renovating looted Baghdad amusement park (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - American and Iraqi officials began the renovation of a popular amusement park Monday on an island north of Baghdad that was looted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

At least 24 Iraqis killed, 78 wounded in countrywide attacks (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 01:57 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 78 were wounded Monday in the latest wave of violence sweeping the country, Iraqi police said.

Bombings and shootings kill more than 30 in Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 12:49 PM PDT AP - Bombings and shootings killed more than 30 people across Iraq on Monday, including high school students on their way to final exams, part of a new round of violence ahead of next week's deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from urban areas.

Bombings kill at least 27 in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:52 AM PDT Reuters - A bomb devastated a minibus carrying students to their final exams in Baghdad on Monday, one of a string of blasts across Iraq that killed 27 people just two days after the deadliest attack in more than a year.

31 killed in Iraq attacks as US pullback looms (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:32 AM PDT AFP - Thirty-one people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.

Unrest could hinder Tehran's regional goals (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 09:42 AM PDT AP - Iran has had an impressive run for the past decade — expanding its regional muscle through proxy militias, its expanding missile capabilities and its big brother role with Iraq's Shiites after the toppling of arch-foe Saddam Hussein.

Brown urges Iraq hostage takers to release Britons (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 07:12 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged those holding three British hostages captive in Iraq to release them immediately after the bodies of two other hostages were handed over by their kidnappers.

Seven killed in car bombing near Baghdad (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 06:05 AM PDT AFP - Seven people were killed and 13 injured in a car bombing on Monday in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad, security officials told AFP.

Iraq pullout: Some US soldiers likely to stay behind in Mosul (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - American soldiers who had been expected to withdraw from their bases within Mosul by the June 30 deadline might be allowed to stay under an agreement being finalized with the Iraqi government, United States officials say.

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