Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US forces pursue Iraq Shiite insurgents: Panetta (AFP)
• 1 of Iraq's 3 vice presidents resigns (AP)
• U.S. may act unilaterally vs Iran-armed Iraq militias (Reuters)
• Iranian weapons allegedly used against US troops (AP)
• Iran denies US claims it armed Iraq rebels (AFP)
• Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels (Reuters)
• Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq (AFP)
• Iran threatens to attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq (AP)
• Iran threatens to attack rebels across Iraq border (AFP)
• US forces 'still attacking Iraq Shiite insurgents' (AFP)
• Iraqis who fled to Syria for safety now returning (AFP)
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• Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands (AP)

US forces pursue Iraq Shiite insurgents: Panetta (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT AFP - American forces are pursuing Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said in Baghdad on Monday as US deaths spike nearly a year after US troops formally ended combat operations.

1 of Iraq's 3 vice presidents resigns (AP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:01 PM PDT AP - One of Iraq's three vice presidents resigned Monday in an apparent attempt to distance himself from what is seen as an increasingly dysfunctional government.

U.S. may act unilaterally vs Iran-armed Iraq militias (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:11 PM PDT Reuters - The United States will take unilateral action when needed to deal with the threat to American troops in Iraq from Shi'ite militias armed by Iran, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Monday.

Iranian weapons allegedly used against US troops (AP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT AP - A blunt and frustrated U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed exasperation Monday with Iraqi indecision on whether it wants U.S. troops to stay next year. He threatened stronger U.S. action to stop Iranian-supplied weapons from killing Americans as they prepare to depart.

Iran denies US claims it armed Iraq rebels (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:24 AM PDT AFP - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected accusations by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that Iran had armed rebels in neighbouring Iraq.

Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:48 AM PDT Reuters - Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad.

Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:31 AM PDT AFP - Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman.

Iran threatens to attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq (AP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:04 AM PDT AP - An Iranian military official on Monday threatened to attack bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran threatens to attack rebels across Iraq border (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:39 AM PDT AFP - Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.

US forces 'still attacking Iraq Shiite insurgents' (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:52 AM PDT AFP - US forces are carrying out operations against Shiite insurgents, almost a year after the military announced a formal end to its combat operations in Iraq, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.

Iraqis who fled to Syria for safety now returning (AFP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:56 AM PDT AFP - When his six-year-old son was killed in a 2006 Baghdad gun battle, Seif Rashid decided to flee with his family to Syria, but the deadly unrest there forced him to return to Iraq last month.

(AP) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:23 AM PDT AP - Witnesses say Syrian protesters attack US embassy compound in Damascus, cause damage

Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 09:01 PM 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.

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