Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337 (AP)
• Iraq attacks kill 19, injure dozens (AFP)
• Bombs kill 18 in Iraq, mostly in remote villages (AP)
• Iraq to fetch MiG fighter planes from Serbia (AFP)
• Iraq's Shiite leader Hakim buried in Najaf (AFP)
• Bombs in northern Iraq, at least 15 killed (Reuters)
• Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early (AP)
• Iraq security vital for whole region: Iran FM (AFP)
• Turkish FM to visit Iraq, Syria over bombing row (AFP)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337 (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT AP - As of Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at least 4,337 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq attacks kill 19, injure dozens (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:01 PM PDT AFP - A spate of attacks across Iraq on Saturday killed 19 people, including a local politician and a child, and injured dozens, making it the country's deadliest day since Ramadan began.

Bombs kill 18 in Iraq, mostly in remote villages (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - Bombs struck a cafe in Baghdad and remote communities in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 18 people, as the visiting Iranian foreign minister warned that Iraq's instability affected the whole region.

Iraq to fetch MiG fighter planes from Serbia (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT AFP - An Iraqi military delegation has gone to Serbia to bring back 19 MiG fighter planes that Saddam Hussein's regime sent for servicing 20 years ago, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Iraq's Shiite leader Hakim buried in Najaf (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 10:45 AM PDT AFP - Powerful Shiite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim was buried beside his brother amid frenzied scenes in Iraq's holy city of Najaf on Saturday, following his death from lung cancer three days ago.

Bombs in northern Iraq, at least 15 killed (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:33 AM PDT Reuters - Two bomb attacks in volatile parts of northern Iraq killed at least 15 people on Saturday and wounded 37, police said, interrupting a relatively peaceful start to the Ramadan fast.

Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:09 AM PDT AP - An Iraqi journalist imprisoned for hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday.

Iraq security vital for whole region: Iran FM (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 06:45 AM PDT AFP - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on a visit to Baghdad on Saturday said keeping violence under control in Iraq was vital to protecting the security of the entire region.

Turkish FM to visit Iraq, Syria over bombing row (AFP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:49 AM PDT AFP - Turkey's foreign minister will visit Iraq and Syria Monday to reconcile the neighbours after they withdrew envoys over Baghdad's allegations that Damascus was sheltering insurgents, his office said.

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