Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq drawdown on schedule, Pentagon says (Reuters)
• Pace of US drawdown from Iraq on schedule: Pentagon (AFP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,397 (AP)
• TIME Interview: Allawi on Iraqi Election Chaos, Violence (Time.com)
• APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace (AP)
• Attacks show al-Qaida in Iraq still powerful (AP)
• After Iraq attacks, security forces describe hardships at Baghdad checkpoints (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP)
• Iraqi security forces say politicians were behind Iraq attacks (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Iraqi forces 'negligent' after attacks kill 110 (AFP)
• Emirates to add Baghdad route (AP)
• Iran border guards arrest Iraqi fishermen: report (AFP)
• Iraq squatter camp population on the rise: UN (AFP)
• Iran detained 12 Iraqi fishermen, some freed: report (Reuters)

Iraq drawdown on schedule, Pentagon says (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 05:09 PM PDT Reuters - The Pentagon said on Tuesday the U.S. drawdown from Iraq was on schedule despite this week's deadly bombings and persistent political uncertainty.

Pace of US drawdown from Iraq on schedule: Pentagon (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:58 PM PDT AFP - The Pentagon said Tuesday the pace of a drawdown of US troops from Iraq was on schedule and had not been pushed back because of violence or delays in forming a new Iraqi government.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,397 (AP) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:22 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at least 4,397 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

TIME Interview: Allawi on Iraqi Election Chaos, Violence (Time.com) Posted: 11 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - Even as Iraq is buffeted by violence, no government has emerged from the March 7 elections. Ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vents in an interview with TIME

APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace (AP) Posted: 11 May 2010 01:35 PM PDT AP - American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq's inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of a major troop pullout this summer, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Attacks show al-Qaida in Iraq still powerful (AP) Posted: 11 May 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - A flurry of attacks blamed on al-Qaida defied claims by the U.S. and Iraq that they dealt the militants a severe blow by killing their two leaders last month.

After Iraq attacks, security forces describe hardships at Baghdad checkpoints (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 May 2010 11:56 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The day after militants in Iraq launched coordinated pre-dawn attacks on Baghdad checkpoints, federal police and Iraqi soldiers who work at some of those checkpoints described their fear of attack and a lack of basic support they believe is weakening security.

Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP) Posted: 11 May 2010 11:17 AM PDT AP - A look at recent major attacks in Iraq:

Iraqi security forces say politicians were behind Iraq attacks (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 May 2010 11:16 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi security forces and citizens were on edge Tuesday after a string of attacks that has raised fears of instability and sparked accusations that the government has become too consumed with forming a coalition to be able to protect its citizens.

Iraqi forces 'negligent' after attacks kill 110 (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2010 07:25 AM PDT AFP - Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence on Tuesday after a devastating series of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 110 people a day earlier in the country's bloodiest violence this year.

Emirates to add Baghdad route (AP) Posted: 11 May 2010 07:14 AM PDT AP - Emirates says it will begin flights to Baghdad in July as the latest carrier to add routes to Iraq as the nation struggles to recover from war.

Iran border guards arrest Iraqi fishermen: report (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2010 06:15 AM PDT AFP - Iranian border guards arrested nine Iraqi fishermen in Iranian waters in the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in recent days, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

Iraq squatter camp population on the rise: UN (AFP) Posted: 11 May 2010 05:51 AM PDT AFP - The number of Iraqis who have fled their homes that are reduced to living in squatter camps has increased by 25 percent in the past year, a senior UN diplomat told AFP on Tuesday.

Iran detained 12 Iraqi fishermen, some freed: report (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:36 AM PDT Reuters - Iranian coast guards detained 12 Iraqi fishermen who they say illegally entered the Islamic Republic's waters, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday, adding three of them were later freed.

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