Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• What al-Maliki (and Iraq) Still Need from Obama (Time.com)
• AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT (AP)
• Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation (AP)
• Obama calls for broader U.S. ties with Iraq (Reuters)
• Iraq urges UN to cancel sanctions (AP)
• US, Iraq hail new era of friendship (AFP)
• Iraqi PM, Obama hail strategic cooperation in talks (AFP)
• Obama to work to lift UN sanctions on Iraq (AP)
• Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq ambush (AFP)
• Obama says transition in Iraq going well (AP)
• Obama says US will keep pledge to leave Iraq (AP)
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• Panel approves $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan (AP)
• Why Kurds vs. Arabs Could Be Iraq's Next Civil War (Time.com)
• Iraq PM lobbies UN for easing of sanctions (AFP)
• Iraq: Gunmen kill 5 Iranian pilgrims in bus (AP)
• Report: Big cuts needed at huge Baghdad embassy that Bush built (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq bus attack (Reuters)
• Gunmen kill five Iranian pilgrims in Iraq ambush (AFP)
• Obama welcomes Iraqi leader, promotes health plan (AP)

What al-Maliki (and Iraq) Still Need from Obama (Time.com) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT Time.com - Six months ahead of a general election that will test his recent popularity, Nouri al-Maliki knows there's much that could go wrong in Iraq -- and that the U.S. has a vital role in ensuring that things go smoothly

AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:26 PM PDT AP - Obama vows full withdrawal from Iraq at end of 2011, presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation

Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups to prevent a resurgence of the violence and turmoil that took the country to the verge of civil war.

Obama calls for broader U.S. ties with Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama sketched the outlines of a new U.S.-Iraqi relationship on Wednesday, saying it was time to broaden ties forged during six years of war.

Iraq urges UN to cancel sanctions (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - Iraq's prime minister urged the U.N. Security Council's most powerful members on Wednesday to cancel all sanctions and resolutions adopted after Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, saying Iraq is now a democracy that poses no threat to international peace and security.

US, Iraq hail new era of friendship (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 02:20 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hailed the seeds of a growing cooperation between their nations, pledging that out of the fires of war would come a new friendship.

Iraqi PM, Obama hail strategic cooperation in talks (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 01:22 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Wednesday hailed White House talks here saying the two nations were entering an era of strategic cooperation.

Obama to work to lift UN sanctions on Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:51 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he is committed to working with Iraq to get the U.N. to lift international sanctions that the world body imposed on the country after the 1991 Gulf War.

Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq ambush (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:48 PM PDT AFP - Five Iranian pilgrims died on Wednesday when their minibuses were ambushed in Iraq, drawing an angry response from Iran's supreme leader who demanded Baghdad do more to protect religious tourists.

Obama says transition in Iraq going well (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says there's been good cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces following the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraqi cities, despite what he describes as a "difference in strategy" on some occasions.

Obama says US will keep pledge to leave Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:35 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says violence will continue in Iraq, but that the insurgents will fail.

(AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - Obama renews pledge that health-care overhaul won't add to deficit, saying: 'I mean it.'

Panel approves $128 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 12:21 PM PDT AP - The total cost of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would top $1 trillion under a Pentagon funding bill approved by a key House panel Wednesday.

Why Kurds vs. Arabs Could Be Iraq's Next Civil War (Time.com) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 11:15 AM PDT Time.com - Election season sharpens the rhetoric between Baghdad and the want-away Kurdish region, with no easy way to resolve their differences

Iraq PM lobbies UN for easing of sanctions (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 08:32 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited UN headquarters Wednesday to press for an easing of UN sanctions slapped on his country after Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Iraq: Gunmen kill 5 Iranian pilgrims in bus (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:36 AM PDT AP - Gunmen in four cars opened fire Wednesday on a convoy of buses carrying Iranian pilgrims on their way to the holy Shiite city of Najaf, killing five of them, Iraqi police said.

Report: Big cuts needed at huge Baghdad embassy that Bush built (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the government's largest overseas diplomatic mission, is significantly overstaffed and needs to be downsized to reflect the reduced American role in the country, according to a new State Department report.

Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq bus attack (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:02 AM PDT Reuters - At least five Iranians were killed on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses of religious pilgrims visiting Shi'ite Muslim holy sites in Iraq, police in Diyala province said.

Gunmen kill five Iranian pilgrims in Iraq ambush (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 06:02 AM PDT AFP - Gunmen shot dead five Iranian pilgrims, including a woman, in an ambush on their minibus near the restive Iraqi city of Baquba on Wednesday, police said.

Obama welcomes Iraqi leader, promotes health plan (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 02:27 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the White House today for talks on political reconciliation efforts in Iraq.

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