Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq weighing options after Blackwater guards cleared (AFP)
Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)
Iraq will file lawsuits against Blackwater (Reuters)
Iraqi PM vows justice in Blackwater shooting case (AP)
Iraq names new north oil chief (AFP)
Three policemen killed in north Iraq blasts (AFP)

Iraq weighing options after Blackwater guards cleared (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:40 PM PST

AFP - Baghdad is weighing how to best react after a US court dropped charges against American guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007, a government spokesman said Monday.

Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:11 AM PST

AP - October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Iraq will file lawsuits against Blackwater (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq said on Monday it would launch lawsuits in U.S. and Iraqi courts against a U.S. security firm accused in the 2007 killing of civilians in Baghdad, rejecting a U.S. judge's decision to throw out charges.

Iraqi PM vows justice in Blackwater shooting case (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:45 AM PST

AP - The Iraqi prime minister vowed Monday to seek punishment for the Blackwater guards accused of killing 17 people at a busy Baghdad intersection after U.S. courts dropped the case in a decision that outraged many Iraqis.

Iraq names new north oil chief (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:31 AM PST

AFP - Iraq on Monday named a new chief for the state-run North Oil Company, angering employees and sparking concerns of sectarian tensions in the firm's ethnically-mixed headquarters town of Kirkuk.