Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US hopeful about exit after a quiet July in Iraq (AP)
• US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit (AP)
• British Iraq war inquiry will call Blair: chairman (AFP)
• Warship honors Marine who died protecting comrades (AP)
• Iraq acknowledges deaths at Iran exile camp (Reuters)
• Iraq says 11 dead in Iran camp as Amnesty seeks probe (AFP)
• US providing care at Iranian camp in Iraq (AFP)
• Iraq bombings kill 11 (AFP)
• Britain begins Iraq war inquiry (AP)
• CORRECTED: Kurd polls keep status quo, U.S. urges Iraq peace (Reuters)
• CORRECTED: Gates, in Iraq, seeks to ease Kurd-Arab tensions (Reuters)
• Bombs kill 11 people in Iraq: police (Reuters)
• Iraq fires head of state-owned oil company (AFP)
• Eight killed in blast at Iraqi party office (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)

US hopeful about exit after a quiet July in Iraq (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT AP - July is on track to be the least deadly month for American troops and one of the quietest for Iraqis since the war started, a decline in violence that has led the U.S. to consider stepping up its withdrawal plans just a month after pulling its combat forces back from Baghdad and other cities.

US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Army adviser to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad argues in an internal memo that the U.S. should "declare victory and go home" next year, 16 months ahead of schedule.

British Iraq war inquiry will call Blair: chairman (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 01:05 PM PDT AFP - The head of an inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war pledged Thursday not to shy away from criticising government decisions as he opened a probe that will quiz key figures such as Tony Blair.

Warship honors Marine who died protecting comrades (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:53 PM PDT AP - Marines flushing out Iraqi insurgents after an ambush came upon a column of vehicles. A van with a father and son. A pickup truck. A tractor. A BMW with a couple of sheiks. And a Toyota Land Cruiser with four young men, all of them insurgents.

Iraq acknowledges deaths at Iran exile camp (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - Iraq's government acknowledged on Thursday that seven Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp this week north of Baghdad.

Iraq says 11 dead in Iran camp as Amnesty seeks probe (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:46 PM PDT AFP - Eleven residents of a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition movement have died since Iraqi forces stormed the site, a local Iraqi security official said on Thursday.

US providing care at Iranian camp in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT AFP - Iraq has allowed US forces to provide medical care to Iranian opposition members injured when Iraqi troops stormed their camp near Baghdad, the State Department said Thursday.

Iraq bombings kill 11 (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 09:41 AM PDT AFP - Attacks across Iraq, including one against a political party's offices, left 11 dead Thursday, as a senior US army officer warned of politically-motivated violence in the coming months.

Britain begins Iraq war inquiry (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:57 AM PDT AP - Britain launched its first sweeping inquiry into the unpopular Iraq war on Thursday — a potentially explosive national reckoning that will call ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair as a witness, and seek evidence from former White House staff.

CORRECTED: Kurd polls keep status quo, U.S. urges Iraq peace (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:21 AM PDT Reuters - Opposition groups made a surprise gain in Iraqi Kurdistan's weekend elections, but ruling parties feuding with Arab leaders in Baghdad clung to power and are unlikely to end a standoff threatening Iraq's fragile calm.

CORRECTED: Gates, in Iraq, seeks to ease Kurd-Arab tensions (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:15 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Iraq's ethnic Kurds and majority Arabs to resolve their entrenched dispute over oil and land before a scheduled American troop withdrawal by 2012.

Bombs kill 11 people in Iraq: police (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT Reuters - Two bomb blasts killed 11 people in Iraq Thursday, reflecting the ongoing insurgent activity that defies overall security improvements and sows fears among some Iraqis about a return to bloodshed of the past.

Iraq fires head of state-owned oil company (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT AFP - The Iraqi government has fired the head of state-owned South Oil Company (SOC), who publicly criticised Baghdad's auctioning off of oil and gas fields to foreign energy giants, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Eight killed in blast at Iraqi party office (AFP) Posted: 30 Jul 2009 06:36 AM PDT AFP - Eight people were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party in the restive city of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, police and medical officials said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2009 06:11 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at least 4,329 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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