Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US general accuses Iraqi politicians of links to Iran (AFP)
• US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,376 (AP)
• Iraq training for threats surrounding elections (AP)
• US troops at lowest level since Iraq invasion (AP)
• West wants end to torture, honor killings in Iraq (Reuters)
• Iraq govt condemns Sadrist MP's anti-Sunni comments (AFP)
• Iraq has top terror risk, Thai danger up: ranking (Reuters)
• US tells Iraq to improve prisons, stamp out abuse (AP)
• Three Christians killed in north Iraq (AFP)
• Iraq's European allies call for halt to death penalty (AFP)
• Facing death, freed Iraq detainees may fight again (Reuters)
• Iraq football stars aim for new partnership as MPs (AFP)

US general accuses Iraqi politicians of links to Iran (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:47 PM PST AFP - The US commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused two Iraqi politicians at the center of a dispute over blacklisting electoral candidates of having ties to an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST AP - The top American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that the U.S. has "direct intelligence" that two senior Iraqi officials in charge of keeping Saddam Hussein loyalists out of the Baghdad government have ties to Iran.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,376 (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at least 4,376 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 training for threats surrounding elections (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - From bridge bombings and sabotaged electricity grids to mass casualties, Iraqi soldiers are training to respond to worst-case election day attacks.

US troops at lowest level since Iraq invasion (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:50 AM PST AP - The number of American soldiers in Iraq has dropped below 100,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion in a clear signal the U.S. is wrapping up its nearly seven-year war to meet a deadline for leaving the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

West wants end to torture, honor killings in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:31 AM PST Reuters - Western powers pressed Iraq on Tuesday to clean up its human rights record by investigating allegations of torture, halting honor killings of women and abolishing the death penalty.

Iraq govt condemns Sadrist MP's anti-Sunni comments (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST AFP - The Iraqi government condemned on Tuesday the comments of one of radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's senior MPs, who said Sunnis had been plotting against Shiites since the beginning of Islam.

Iraq has top terror risk, Thai danger up: ranking (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:57 AM PST Reuters - Iraq is the country most at risk from terrorist attacks for the second straight year, according to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, while Thailand has joined the nine countries most in danger for the first time.

US tells Iraq to improve prisons, stamp out abuse (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:54 AM PST AP - In a U.N. debate, the United States has urged the Iraqi government to improve its poor prison conditions and to investigate allegations of detainee abuse.

Three Christians killed in north Iraq (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:01 AM PST AFP - A Christian was killed in the restive city of Mosul on Tuesday, the third in as many days, as community leaders warned of rising violence against the minority ahead of Iraq's March 7 general election.

Iraq's European allies call for halt to death penalty (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:57 AM PST AFP - Britain, France and Italy on Tuesday called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.

Facing death, freed Iraq detainees may fight again (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:17 AM PST Reuters - Many Iraqis released by U.S. forces after being detained for suspected links to Sunni insurgents have been killed by tribes seeking revenge or are being driven back into the arms of al Qaeda.

Iraq football stars aim for new partnership as MPs (AFP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 11:03 PM PST AFP - Once they linked up on the football pitch in one of Iraq's most fabled forward partnerships, taking their native country to its first and only World Cup finals.

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