Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi forces 'integrating' anti-Qaeda fighters: US (AFP)
Jordan town drops plan to name area after Saddam (AP)
Iraqi in Blackwater case rejects compensation deal (AP)
Most Iraq families 'accept Blackwater compensation' (AFP)
GIs return to their war zone and find it peaceful (AP)

Iraqi forces 'integrating' anti-Qaeda fighters: US (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:44 AM PST

AFP - Around half of 80,000 anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen have been integrated into Iraqi institutions as part of national reconciliation efforts, a senior US general said on Sunday.

Jordan town drops plan to name area after Saddam (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:31 AM PST

AP - The mayor of a provincial town in Jordan said Sunday he had dropped plans to name a new neighborhood there after Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein at the request of the central government.

Iraqi in Blackwater case rejects compensation deal (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:17 AM PST

AP - An Iraqi injured by the U.S. private security firm once known as Blackwater said Sunday he would not accept a compensation deal for injuries he suffered after company employees opened fire in a crowded Baghdad square because the amount of money offered is too low.

Most Iraq families 'accept Blackwater compensation' (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 05:55 AM PST

AFP - All but one of the families of 17 Iraqis killed in a 2007 shooting by US security guards have accepted compensation from the Blackwater firm, a lawyer wounded in the attack said on Sunday.