Yahoo! News: Iraq

Double bombing kills 12 outside bank in Iraq (AP)
Radical anti-US Iraqi cleric issues code of conduct (AFP)
Kuwait gets $1.06 bn in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP)
Twin bombings in Saddam hometown kill 12 (AFP)
Jordan convicts mentor of Iraq's al-Qaida chief (AP)
Mother of Iraqi Kurdish leader dies of cancer (AP)
Blasts kill at least 15 in Iraq's Tikrit (Reuters)
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UN pays out $1 billion from Iraqi oil fund (AP)

Double bombing kills 12 outside bank in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:35 PM PDT

AP - A double bombing Thursday struck an Iraqi bank in Saddam Hussein's hometown where policemen were picking up their paychecks, killing 12 and wounding 34 people, officials said.

Radical anti-US Iraqi cleric issues code of conduct (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:41 AM PDT

AFP - All followers of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must sign a strict code of conduct after repeated complaints over rogue elements of his militia, a document seen by AFP showed Thursday.

Kuwait gets $1.06 bn in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:08 AM PDT

AFP - The United Nations released $1.06 billion in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday in the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.

Twin bombings in Saddam hometown kill 12 (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:42 AM PDT

AFP - Twins blasts Thursday involving a car bomb and a suicide attack in Saddam Hussein's hometown in central Iraq killed 12 people near a bank and a market, as shoppers stocked up for Ramadan.

Jordan convicts mentor of Iraq's al-Qaida chief (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:15 AM PDT

AP - The mentor of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was convicted Thursday of aiding the Afghan Taliban and sentenced to five years in prison in Jordan.

Mother of Iraqi Kurdish leader dies of cancer (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:13 AM PDT

AP - Hamayel Khan, the mother of the president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, has died at the age of 85.

Blasts kill at least 15 in Iraq's Tikrit (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Two suicide bombers killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in Iraq's Tikrit city as police and soldiers were collecting their salaries at a local bank, police and hospital officials said on Thursday.

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Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:15 PM PDT

AP - Libyan rebel leadership council says its military commander has been killed.

UN pays out $1 billion from Iraqi oil fund (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:35 AM PDT

AP - A U.N. panel has approved more than $1 billion in compensation payments for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.