Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Probe: Private's death reveals cruelty by soldiers (AP)
• Iraqis begin restoring concrete walls in Baghdad (AP)
• Iraqis facing more deadly attacks says foreign minister (AFP)
• Reporter's family reunion in Iraq is reality check (AP)
• Bombing of Iraqi ministry hit nearby resident hard (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Iraq's Maliki pledges victory amid criticism (Reuters)
• Maliki assures Iraq its forces will defeat terror (Reuters)
• Iraqi foreign minister warns of worsening security (AFP)
• Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis start Ramadan on same day (AFP)
• Three soldiers killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)
• After the Bombs, Iraqi Leaders Play the Blame-Game (Time.com)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,334 (AP)

Probe: Private's death reveals cruelty by soldiers (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - The investigation into the death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq revealed cruelty and maltreatment by other soldiers who have been charged with treating soldiers in their platoon inappropriately, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Iraqis begin restoring concrete walls in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 02:14 PM PDT AP - Workers used giant cranes to raise concrete walls around the blast-scarred Foreign Ministry and other government buildings on Saturday, as Iraqi authorities sought to bolster security after suicide truck bombings that killed scores in Baghdad.

Iraqis facing more deadly attacks says foreign minister (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:37 PM PDT AFP - Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Saturday that Iraq will witness more deadly attacks in the coming months because security forces are colluding with insurgents and the violence is getting worse.

Reporter's family reunion in Iraq is reality check (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:05 PM PDT AP - The last time my aunt saw me, I was 6 and sitting on a bed, curiously watching her change her son's diaper.

Bombing of Iraqi ministry hit nearby resident hard (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:02 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD - The suicide bomber who drove two tons of explosives to the base of Iraq's Foreign Ministry took aim at a symbol of the Iraqi government, but dozens of his victims lived in a clutch of small brick and mortar houses behind the ministry.

Iraq's Maliki pledges victory amid criticism (Reuters) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 09:55 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured Iraq on Saturday that its forces would defeat terrorism despite the year's deadliest bombings, ignoring remarks from a minister that the government had fallen into a false sense of security.

Maliki assures Iraq its forces will defeat terror (Reuters) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday assured the country in the aftermath of the deadliest bombings this year that its security forces would defeat terrorism despite "breaches here and there."

Iraqi foreign minister warns of worsening security (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 05:16 AM PDT AFP - Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Saturday said Iraq will witness more deadly attacks in coming months because security is deteriorating due to collusion between security forces and insurgents.

Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis start Ramadan on same day (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 01:43 AM PDT AFP - Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq on Saturday started Ramadan at the same time for the first time since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Three soldiers killed in Iraq attacks (AFP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 01:43 AM PDT AFP - Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Saturday, the first day of Ramadan, in an attack in Baghdad and another incident north-east of the capital, police said.

After the Bombs, Iraqi Leaders Play the Blame-Game (Time.com) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 10:05 PM PDT Time.com - The dramatic and deadly attacks have raised the temperature of Iraqi politics even though parliament is officially in recess

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,334 (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 05:48 PM PDT AP - As of Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, at least 4,334 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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