Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities (AP)
• No Christmas festivities for some Iraq Christians (Reuters)
• New Iraq cabinet faces 'enormous' challenges (AFP)
• Iraq: Preparing for the Return of Moqtada al-Sadr (Time.com)
• Iraq's new government raises hopes even as key ministries go unfilled (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Pop Smoke? A Marine and his fight for Iraq's $30,000 donkey. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST AP - No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq's Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church.

No Christmas festivities for some Iraq Christians (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:08 AM PST Reuters - Some church leaders in Iraq have told Christians not to celebrate Christmas except with prayer after lethal attacks and continuing threats by militants against the Iraqi Christian community.

New Iraq cabinet faces 'enormous' challenges (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 07:57 AM PST AFP - Iraq's new cabinet held its first meeting on Wednesday faced with "enormous" challenges to improve security, public services and ties with other countries, following months of political deadlock.

Iraq: Preparing for the Return of Moqtada al-Sadr (Time.com) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST Time.com - The Iran-based cleric remains wildly popular in Iraq, which makes the democratic process a vehicle for his ambitions. Washington may simply have to get used to him

Iraq's new government raises hopes even as key ministries go unfilled (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:45 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq unveiled a new and broad-based government Tuesday that comprised all its major religious and ethnic factions and raised hope that the country's nine-month political impasse could finally be over.

Pop Smoke? A Marine and his fight for Iraq's $30,000 donkey. (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - It’s probably safe to say that Smoke is the most sought-after donkey in Iraq.

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