Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• 2 candidates from Iraq's Sunni-backed party killed (AP)
• Iran troops twice cross border to fight rebels: Iraq Kurds (AFP)
• Pro-Allawi poll candidate shot dead in Iraq (AFP)
• Gunmen kill politician of winning Iraqi bloc (Reuters)

2 candidates from Iraq's Sunni-backed party killed (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 01:28 PM PDT AP - Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March parliamentary election, slayings that the alliance said Saturday were part of a politically motivated campaign of assassinations.

Iran troops twice cross border to fight rebels: Iraq Kurds (AFP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:36 AM PDT AFP - Iranian troops have crossed into Iraq twice in three days amid clashes with Kurdish rebels in the Qandil mountains near the border, a security spokesman said Saturday.

Pro-Allawi poll candidate shot dead in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:44 AM PDT AFP - A member of ex-premier Iyad Allawi's political bloc was gunned down in his home near the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, a security official said.

Gunmen kill politician of winning Iraqi bloc (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 01:12 AM PDT Reuters - A member of the cross-sectarian Iraqiya bloc that won Iraq's March parliamentary election was shot dead on Saturday, the second Iraqiya politician to be killed since the vote, the bloc said.

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