Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Panetta in Iraq to see officials, commanders (AP)
• New US consulate in north Iraq to boost investment (AP)
• New defense chief Panetta in Iraq, to press on drawdown (Reuters)
• Panetta in Iraq as another US soldier killed (AFP)
• Iraqi farmers block Iran border post (AFP)
• Early decision on US troops unlikely: Iraq official (AFP)
• Mass grave with 222 bodies found in Iraq (AFP)
• Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands (AP)
• Iraqi cleric Sadr will not revive anti-US militia (AFP)

Panetta in Iraq to see officials, commanders (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:32 PM PDT AP - From one war front to another Sunday, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta hopped from a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan's southern desert to Baghdad, where he sought to encourage Iraqi leaders to decide soon whether they want a residual American military force beyond year's end.

New US consulate in north Iraq to boost investment (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - The United States opened a consulate in Iraq's Kurdish region Sunday in an effort to lure more American investors to one of the most stable and fast-growing regions in the country.

New defense chief Panetta in Iraq, to press on drawdown (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 12:59 PM PDT Reuters - Leon Panetta arrived in Iraq on Sunday on his first trip there as U.S. defense secretary, saying he would press Baghdad on the future U.S. military presence and to go after militants attacking U.S. forces with Iranian rockets.

Panetta in Iraq as another US soldier killed (AFP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 12:29 PM PDT AFP - US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to urge Iraqi leaders to act against Iran-backed Shiite militias, as another American soldier was killed in the south of the country.

Iraqi farmers block Iran border post (AFP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 10:51 AM PDT AFP - Dozens of Iraqi farmers on Sunday blocked a border crossing with Iran in protest at its diversion of a river which helps to irrigate one of their country's main agricultural regions.

Early decision on US troops unlikely: Iraq official (AFP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:30 AM PDT AFP - The chances of Iraqi leaders reaching an early decision on an extended US military presence beyond the end of this year are slim, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media advisor told AFP on Sunday.

Mass grave with 222 bodies found in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:28 AM PDT AFP - The remains of 222 people, probably Kurds killed under Iraq's former regime in 1987, were extracted from a mass grave south of Baghdad, the authorities said on Sunday.

Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:21 AM PDT AP - A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq.

Iraqi cleric Sadr will not revive anti-US militia (AFP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT AFP - Anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has withdrawn a threat to reactivate his powerful Mahdi Army but said an elite unit would oppose American forces if they extended their deployment in Iraq.

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