Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,439 (AP)
• Marine in Iraq war crime case seeks clemency (AP)
• US diplomat: Budget fight threatens Iraq gains (AP)
• Iraq criticises Bahrain intervention; Sadrists march (Reuters)
• Iraq's Aziz gets life sentence over Shiite murders (AFP)
• Fellow Shiites rally behind Bahrain protesters (AFP)
• Iraq bomb kills mother and newborn, wounds 33 (AFP)
• Iraq Shiite authority condemns Bahrain crackdown (AFP)
• Woman killed, 22 wounded by Iraq car bomb (AFP)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,439 (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:38 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at least 4,439 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Marine in Iraq war crime case seeks clemency (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT AP - A lawyer for a Marine convicted of murder in a major Iraq war crime case asked the Navy on Wednesday to grant his client clemency, arguing that freedom is warranted because of an error during the 2007 trial.

US diplomat: Budget fight threatens Iraq gains (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:48 AM PDT AP - Eight years of work to stabilize Iraq could go to waste if Congress guts funding to train Iraqi police forces after U.S. combat troops leave the country, a senior diplomat said Wednesday.

Iraq criticises Bahrain intervention; Sadrists march (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:18 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday criticized military intervention by Sunni Arab neighbors in Bahrain, and followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad.

Iraq's Aziz gets life sentence over Shiite murders (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 10:46 AM PDT AFP - Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz received a life sentence on Wednesday for his role in the 1980s killing of Shiite officials, a judicial spokesman said.

Fellow Shiites rally behind Bahrain protesters (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 07:23 AM PDT AFP - From Iran to Saudi Arabia and through the Iraqi city of Najaf, Shiites in the Middle East rallied Wednesday behind Shiite protesters in Bahrain against a violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni dynasty.

Iraq bomb kills mother and newborn, wounds 33 (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:10 AM PDT AFP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing a mother and her newborn baby and wounding 33 other people, police said.

Iraq Shiite authority condemns Bahrain crackdown (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:27 AM PDT AFP - A leading Iraq-based Shiite Muslim authority on Wednesday condemned a deadly government crackdown on mainly Shiite protesters in Bahrain, saying the violence must stop immediately.

Woman killed, 22 wounded by Iraq car bomb (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2011 12:38 AM PDT AFP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 22, with a woman and baby among casualties, police and a doctor said.

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