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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iran lawmaker says US hikers not to be freed soon (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:42 PM PST

This undated photo provided August 2009 by the Fattal family shows Joshua Fattal (R) with his mother Laura Fattal in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Fattal is one of three American hikers being held in Iran. The US hikers who entered Iran illegally were caught in a AP - A senior Iranian lawmaker said Thursday the United States should not expect the release anytime soon of three American hikers detained by his country since July.

British troops feared civilian casualties in Basra (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:19 AM PST

AP - A senior British army commander said Thursday his troops were unwilling to help the Iraqi army in air strikes against militias in the city of Basra because they feared killing civilians.

U.N. experts urge Iraq, U.S. to pursue Blackwater case (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 08:39 AM PST

Reuters - U.N. human rights experts called on Iraq and the United States on Thursday to ensure that the 2007 killing of at least 14 Iraqi civilians, which has been blamed on Blackwater security guards, be prosecuted.

Iraq and Iran to meet to draw border: Mottaki (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:50 AM PST

Iraq and Iran will hold meetings from next week to formally mark their disputed border, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, shown in a file picture, has said, after a stand-off between the two countries last month.(AFP/File/Anwar Amro)AFP - Iraq and Iran will begin talks next week to mark their borders, both countries said on Thursday, weeks after Tehran took over a disputed oil well in a move Iraq's prime minister called "unjustified."

US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:22 AM PST

AP - Marine Sgt. Ralph Anthony Webb Freitas

Iraq, Iran start talks on disputed border area (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 06:17 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier takes up a sentry point overlooking one of Fakka wells near Amara, 300 km (186 miles) southeast of Baghdad, December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Salah ThaniReuters - Iran and Iraq have begun talks to try to resolve a dispute over an inactive oil well in a sensitive area along the nearly 1,500-km border between the two countries, their foreign ministers said on Thursday.

Iran foreign minister in Iraq over border dispute (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 06:04 AM PST

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki, bottom left, and his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari hold a joint press conference, and are shown in a screen above them, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. The Iranian foreign minister is visiting Iraq amid rising tension over the border between the two countries. Iranian troops have been stationed near Iraq's al-Fakkah oil field along the two countries' disputed border since Dec. 17. 2009. Iraqis in several cities have held demonstrations demanding their government take action. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The Iranian foreign minister visited Iraq on Thursday to try and resolve rising tensions over the border between the two countries, officials said.

Anti-terror chief among seven killed in Iraq blasts (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:13 AM PST

File picture shows an Iraqi soldier in the western town of Ramadi. Coordinated bombings have shattered the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people including the town's anti-terror chief.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Coordinated bombings early on Thursday shattered the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people including the town's anti-terror chief, an official said.

Blasts kill 6 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:49 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, Sami Hawas, a 42-year-old taxi driver, and his 7-year-old son Mohammed, are seen at his home in Baghdad, Iraq. Hawas was shot in the chest and a leg while driving his cab at Baghdad's Nisoor square more than a year ago, when Blackwater Worldwide security guards reportedly shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians. The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has reached a settlement in a series of federal lawsuits in which dozens of Iraqis accused the company of cultivating a reckless culture that allowed innocent civilians to be killed. Plaintiffs' attorney Susan Burke filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010 requesting the cases be dismissed. The seven lawsuits cited a pattern of illegal activity, including several killing such as the 2007 shooting in Iraq's capital that left 17 Iraqis dead and strained relationships between Washington and Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - A series of blasts killed six people in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Thursday, a police official said, in the latest attack to hit the province that was once the heartland of the al-Qaida-led insurgency.

Iraq, Iran to meet next week on borders: Mottaki (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:55 AM PST

Iraq and Iran will hold meetings from next week to formally mark their disputed border, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, shown in a file picture, said Thursday, after a stand-off between the two countries last month.(AFP/File/Anwar Amro)AFP - Iraq and Iran will hold meetings from next week to formally mark their disputed border, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday, after a stand-off between the two countries last month.

Bombings target Iraqi army commander, kill 7 (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:37 AM PST

File photo shows members of the Iraqi Special Force Police on parade in the northern city of Kirkuk. Three policemen were killed and eight people were wounded on Monday by two explosions in Iraq's northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)Reuters - Three bombs exploded in a residential area near Ramadi in Iraq's western Anbar province on Thursday, killing seven people including relatives of an Iraqi Army anti-terrorist special forces commander, police said.

Anti-terror chief among 7 killed in Iraq blasts: police (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST

File picture shows an Iraqi soldier in the western town of Ramadi. Coordinated bombings targeting a local anti-terror chief and his family have shattered four homes in the western Iraqi town of Heet, killing seven people.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Co-ordinated early-morning bombings on Thursday at the homes of four police officers in the western Iraqi town of Heet killed seven people, including the town's anti-terror chief, police said.

US soldier dies in Iraq; death not combat related (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:57 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, Sami Hawas, a 42-year-old taxi driver, and his 7-year-old son Mohammed, are seen at his home in Baghdad, Iraq. Hawas was shot in the chest and a leg while driving his cab at Baghdad's Nisoor square more than a year ago, when Blackwater Worldwide security guards reportedly shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians. The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has reached a settlement in a series of federal lawsuits in which dozens of Iraqis accused the company of cultivating a reckless culture that allowed innocent civilians to be killed. Plaintiffs' attorney Susan Burke filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010 requesting the cases be dismissed. The seven lawsuits cited a pattern of illegal activity, including several killing such as the 2007 shooting in Iraq's capital that left 17 Iraqis dead and strained relationships between Washington and Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - The U.S. army says a soldier has died in northern Iraq of injuries unrelated to combat.

Protests grow over new US travel watchlist (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 07:03 PM PST

A TSA officer screens an airline passenger at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, in Dallas, Texas. Afghanistan and Iraq joined a chorus of protest over a new US watchlist targeting visitors from 14 countries, describing the measure as ineffective and AFP - Afghanistan and Iraq joined a chorus of protest over a new US watchlist targeting visitors from 14 countries, describing the measure as ineffective and "counterproductive."

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