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New in Town: How Baghdad Has Changed (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:30 PM CST Time.com - Fresh to the Iraqi capital, a TIME reporter records his impressions of the city at the beginning of the end of the American occupation

Officials: Most troops out of Iraq in 18 months (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:14 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama plans to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said Tuesday, ending the war that helped define his upstart presidential campaign — although a little more slowly than he promised.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,251 (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:18 PM CST AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, at least 4,251 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Obama leaning toward 19 months for Iraq withdrawal (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:11 PM CST Reuters - President Barack Obama looks likely to order U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraq over a period of about 19 months -- a compromise between his campaign pledge and some commanders' wishes, officials said on Tuesday.

US soldier killed, three shot in Iraq police station (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:45 PM CST AFP - A US soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul, the American military said on Wednesday.

Iraqis ready soon to take over from US force: general (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:15 PM CST AFP - Violence has dramatically declined in Iraq and US troops could withdraw at a brisk pace in much of the country without posing a security risk, a US Marine general said on Tuesday.

US soldier killed in police attack in Iraq (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 03:11 PM CST AP - Two Iraqi policemen opened fire Tuesday during a U.S. military inspection visit in northern Iraq, killing one American soldier and an interpreter in an attack that deepened worries of possible infiltration of security forces battling insurgents in their last major base.

UK blocks publication of Iraq war discussions (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 02:21 PM CST AP - Britain's justice secretary overturned an order on Tuesday that would have forced the government to make public the formal minutes of two contentious Cabinet discussions held before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Iraqi police attack U.S. soldiers, translator killed (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 02:05 PM CST Reuters - Four U.S. soldiers were wounded and their interpreter was killed at a police station in northern Iraq Tuesday, in an attack that Iraqi security sources said was carried out by rogue Iraqi police.

Iraq Kurds complete unification of ministries (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 01:35 PM CST AFP - The two main Kurdish parties have completed the unification of their government in the autonomous region of northern Iraq, one of the main groups announced on Tuesday.

Conspiracy charge dropped against US soldier (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 01:12 PM CST AP - The U.S. Army said Tuesday it has dropped a conspiracy to commit premeditated murder charge against an American soldier accused of taking part in the killing of four blindfolded Iraqi detainees in Baghdad.

UK government refuses to publish pre-Iraq war discussion (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:42 AM CST Reuters - The British government refused on Tuesday to publish records of cabinet discussions on the legality of invading Iraq in 2003, despite a tribunal ruling in January that it should release them.

US soldiers wounded, interpreter killed in Iraq (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:27 AM CST AP - U.S. soldiers were wounded and an interpreter was killed in an attack on a police station Tuesday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military announced.

Iraq arrests Shiite police for anti-Sunni attacks (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 08:58 AM CST AFP - Iraq has arrested 11 Shiite policemen over a spate of killings and kidnappings of Sunni Arabs, including the murder of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's sister, a security official said on Tuesday.

Seoul, Baghdad sign $3.55B deal to rebuild Iraq (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 05:33 AM CST AP - South Korea has signed a $3.55 billion deal with Iraq to help rebuild the war-ravaged country in return for oil and gas.

Iraq court to deliver Aziz verdict in March (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:45 AM CST AFP - Iraq will deliver a verdict in March against Saddam Hussein's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz who is on trial over the 1992 execution of a group of Baghdad traders, a court spokesman said on Tuesday.

As war ebbs, Europe returns to Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - President Bush was hardly out of the White House before his European opponents to the invasion of Iraq began lining up for what are expected to be lucrative contracts to rebuild the oil-rich country.

Boredom is US soldiers' new foe in Iraqi desert (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 01:48 AM CST AFP - For a growing number of young US troops in Iraq, boredom is becoming the new enemy as major anti-insurgency raids turn rarer and their disengagement from the country starts to take shape.

South Korea, Iraq agree 3.55 billion dollar deal (AFP) Posted: 24 Feb 2009 12:56 AM CST AFP - South Korea and Iraq agreed Tuesday to a 3.55 billion dollar oil-for-development deal during a visit by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the presidential office here said.

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