Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,415 (AP)
• US support in Iraq needed only 'a few more years': diplomat (AFP)
• Bomber kills 61 Iraqis in recruitment drive (AP)
• FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Aug 17 (Reuters)
• Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP)
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• Suicide attack on Iraqi Army frustrates Iraqi hopes for security (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Appeal in Pa. soldier's electrocution is rejected (AP)
• White House: Blast won't derail Iraq transition (AP)
• 59 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP)
• Obama condemns deadly Iraq suicide attack: spokesman (AFP)
• Judges targeted as bomber kills 57 Iraq army recruits (Reuters)
• Suicide bomb kills 43 in Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,415 (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at least 4,415 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

US support in Iraq needed only 'a few more years': diplomat (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT AFP - US financial support for Iraq will be needed for only a "few more years" until Iraq can tap its vast oil wealth and stand on its own feet, the departing US ambassador to Baghdad said Tuesday.

Bomber kills 61 Iraqis in recruitment drive (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - Young men from some of Iraq's poorest areas waited all night outside an army recruitment center, only to become easy prey Tuesday for a suicide bomber who killed 61 in the crowd. Desperate for jobs, dazed survivors rushed to get back in line after the attack.

FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Aug 17 (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:07 PM PDT Reuters - Following are security developments in Iraq at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.

Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - A look at recent major attacks in Iraq:

(AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - Police: Fuel truck bombing kills 8, injures 44 in Shiite neighborhood in Iraqi capital.

Suicide attack on Iraqi Army frustrates Iraqi hopes for security (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:17 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his legs at an Iraqi Army recruiting center early Tuesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 120, including an Iraqi general, in one of the worst attacks this year.

Appeal in Pa. soldier's electrocution is rejected (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:50 PM PDT AP - An appeals court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the parents of a Pittsburgh-area soldier electrocuted in an Army barracks shower in Iraq.

White House: Blast won't derail Iraq transition (AP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT AP - The deadly suicide bombing outside a Baghdad army headquarters won't halt Iraq's transition to democracy — or the U.S. troop withdrawal, the White House said Tuesday.

59 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment centre in Baghdad killing 59 people Tuesday, officials said, as violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan raged across Iraq.

Obama condemns deadly Iraq suicide attack: spokesman (AFP) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:34 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama Tuesday condemned a suicide bombing in Iraq that killed at least 59 people as the work of people hoping to "derail" democracy, his spokesman said.

Judges targeted as bomber kills 57 Iraq army recruits (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT Reuters - At least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed and 123 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment center in Baghdad on Tuesday, two weeks before the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.

Suicide bomb kills 43 in Iraq army recruitment centre (AFP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:17 PM PDT AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad on Tuesday killing 43 people, a defence ministry official said.

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