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US backs Iraqi fight against dying insurgency (AFP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 03:29 PM PDT AFP - A call comes in from the Iraqi army for US help after trouble near Ashur where two rival villages are on the brink of a firefight in unstable Nineveh province. Can Bravo Company mediate?

US pursues charges in 2007 attack in Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 01:58 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Army has filed a criminal complaint in an Iraqi court against 12 people believed responsible for a May 2007 ambush in which seven U.S. soldiers were killed — three of them after they were captured, the U.S. said Sunday.

Iraq fired 62,000 accused of corruption: minister (AFP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 01:44 PM PDT AFP - Iraq has fired 62,000 employees accused of corruption and is dismantling sectarianism among its police -- signs that it has turned a corner en route to eventual self-rule, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani wrote in a US newspaper Sunday.

New video shows Briton kidnapped in Iraq in 2007 (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 12:24 PM PDT AP - The British Embassy said Sunday it had received a new video showing one of five Britons taken hostage nearly two years ago allegedly by Shiite extremists that the U.S. believes are backed by Iran.

Turkey's Gul in landmark Iraq visit (AFP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 11:34 AM PDT AFP - President Abdullah Gul will on Monday arrive in Baghdad on the first visit by a Turkish head of state in 33 years, for talks on the thorny issue of Kurdish rebels, officials said.

About half Iraqi prisoners 'dangerous': US (AFP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 10:35 AM PDT AFP - The US military on Sunday said that about half the 13,000 Iraqi prisoners currently in custody should be considered "dangerous" and may still face charges in court.

U.S. says Iraqi prisoners to be freed or charged (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - Thousands of Iraqi prisoners being held indefinitely without charge by U.S. forces will be freed or prosecuted in Iraqi courts by the middle of this year, the U.S. commander in charge of them said on Sunday.

Iraqi VP calls for wise economic policy amid woes (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2009 06:42 AM PDT AP - Iraq's Sunni vice president appealed Sunday for a "suitable recipe" to help transform his country's "unbalanced" economy, joining other government officials in sounding the alarm over the nation's finances.

Obama's Afghan task 'tougher' than Iraq (AFP) Posted: 21 Mar 2009 10:36 PM PDT AFP - Barack Obama hopes his new Afghanistan strategy will replicate the US success in Iraq of co-opting Islamic hardliners, but even the president himself warns the task will be tougher.

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