Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq PM backs off firings on 100-day deadline (AFP)
• Iraq PM backs off firings on eve of 100 days (AFP)
• Rocket barrage kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad (AP)
• Iraq tries to recover fleeing bank chief (AFP)
• Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq rocket attack (Reuters)
• Attacks kill five US soldiers, 20 Iraqis (AFP)
• Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq attack (Reuters)
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• Five American soldiers killed in Iraq (AFP)
• Sixteen killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)
• Suicide car bomber kills 13 in Saddam's hometown (Reuters)

Iraq PM backs off firings on 100-day deadline (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:37 PM PDT AFP - A 100-day deadline set by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki amid nationwide protests expires on Tuesday, though the premier has pulled back from a threat of major changes if ministers did not shape up.

Iraq PM backs off firings on eve of 100 days (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki signaled on Monday no ministers would be fired for poor performance, on the eve of the expiry of a 100-day deadline he set to force his cabinet to shape up.

Rocket barrage kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT AP - Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad — the largest, single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.

Iraq tries to recover fleeing bank chief (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT AFP - Iraq is using legal and diplomatic means to bring back the chief of a state-owned bank under investigation for financial irregularities, a top official said on Monday.

Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq rocket attack (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:13 AM PDT Reuters - Five U.S. service members were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq on Monday, in the worst single toll for American troops in the country for at least two years, the U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.

Attacks kill five US soldiers, 20 Iraqis (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT AFP - Attacks killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis on Monday, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than two years, just months before all of them must withdraw.

Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq attack (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:57 AM PDT Reuters - Five U.S. service members were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq on Monday in the worst single toll for American troops in the country in at least two years, the U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.

(AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:47 AM PDT AP - Syria says it lost "intermittent" control of area where armed men attacked forces, killing 120.

Five American soldiers killed in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:55 AM PDT AFP - Five American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Monday, the deadliest day for US troops there in more than two years, with just months to go before all US forces must withdraw from Iraq completely.

Sixteen killed in Iraq attacks (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:09 AM PDT AFP - Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq on Monday killed 16 people, including 12 struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, officials said.

Suicide car bomber kills 13 in Saddam's hometown (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:52 AM PDT Reuters - At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car in Iraq's central city of Tikrit on Monday, the second attack in three days in the hometown of the late Saddam Hussein, officials said.

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