Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi Kurds go to polls, still at odds with Baghdad (Reuters)
• Iraq criticizes U.S. talks with armed groups (Reuters)
• Iraq investigates alleged US-insurgent talks (AP)
• Iraq's Kurds Prepare to Vote and Prove Their Democracy (Time.com)
• Biden, Maliki meet as US pushes Iraq reconciliation (AFP)
• Film megastar Jolie visits Iraq refugees (AFP)
• Kurdistan: Why it could spark new front in Iraq war (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Opposition candidates aim to upset Kurdish status quo (AFP)
• US soldier dies in Iraq, military says (AP)
• Maliki hints at US troop presence beyond 2011 (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,328 (AP)

Iraqi Kurds go to polls, still at odds with Baghdad (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:21 PM PDT Reuters - Iraqi Kurds will vote on Saturday in elections expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan but unlikely to erase voter concern about corruption or end a bitter feud with Baghdad over land and oil.

Iraq criticizes U.S. talks with armed groups (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT Reuters - Iraq criticized the United States on Friday for holding talks with Iraqis that Baghdad describes as terrorists, delivering a rebuke to Washington during a visit by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the U.S. capital.

Iraq investigates alleged US-insurgent talks (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - Iraq said Friday it was investigating reports that U.S. delegates and Sunni insurgents held reconciliation talks in Turkey this year, alleging the meetings violated Iraqi sovereignty and showed tolerance for terrorists.

Iraq's Kurds Prepare to Vote and Prove Their Democracy (Time.com) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:00 PM PDT Time.com - On the eve of regional elections, the most secure and prosperous part of Iraq needs to prove that it is more than the sum of two political families

Biden, Maliki meet as US pushes Iraq reconciliation (AFP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:17 PM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki returned to the White House Friday, this time to meet with Vice President Joe Biden, who has overseen US efforts for political reconciliation in Iraq.

Film megastar Jolie visits Iraq refugees (AFP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:07 AM PDT AFP - Hollywood megastar and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited a refugee camp in Baghdad for Iraqis displaced by the war, the UN refugee agency said.

Kurdistan: Why it could spark new front in Iraq war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi Kurdistan is wrapping up an unusually free-wheeling election campaign that is likely to shift, if not overturn, the political order of this semi-autonomous region when the votes are cast on Saturday.

Opposition candidates aim to upset Kurdish status quo (AFP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:43 AM PDT AFP - Opposition candidates are railing against corruption and raising the reformist flag in a bid to break the stranglehold on power by two main political parties in Iraq's Kurdish region.

US soldier dies in Iraq, military says (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 12:24 AM PDT AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat related injuries in Iraq.

Maliki hints at US troop presence beyond 2011 (AFP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 09:56 PM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hinted that US troops may remain in Iraq beyond the end of 2011, the deadline set under a bilateral agreement reached last year.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,328 (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:47 PM PDT AP - As of Thursday, July 23, 2009, at least 4,328 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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