Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• A veteran's perspective on the end of combat operations in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• Navy denies parole for Marine in Iraq war crime (AP)
• Iraq to open talks with US on training mission (AFP)
• Iraq to negotiate continued US troop presence (AP)
• Top US officer pushes for troop decision in Iraq (AFP/Getty Images/File)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,473 (AP)
• Iraq sentences 3 to death in Baghdad church attack (AP)
• Bombers target churches in northern Iraq: police (Reuters)
• US troops must have legal immunity to stay in Iraq (AP)
• U.S. troops in Iraq will need immunity: U.S. chief (Reuters)
• US says Iran-backed militia attacks down in Iraq (AFP)
• Car bomb at Kirkuk church injures 15: police (AFP)
• Iraq's government shuts down amid 120-degree temps - and no A/C (The Christian Science Monitor)

A veteran's perspective on the end of combat operations in Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:51 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - It was with mixed emotions that I read President Obama's announcement at the end of August that combat operations were ending in Iraq. These mixed feelings were not because I wanted combat operations to continue.

Navy denies parole for Marine in Iraq war crime (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:44 PM PDT AP - The Navy has denied parole for a Camp Pendleton Marine convicted of murder in a major Iraq war crime case, rejecting the request by his lawyer who had argued that he should be released because of an error at his 2007 trial.

Iraq to open talks with US on training mission (AFP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:25 PM PDT AFP - Iraq will open talks with Washington over an American military training mission that lasts beyond the end of 2011, when all US troops had to withdraw, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP Wednesday.

Iraq to negotiate continued US troop presence (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:48 PM PDT AP - Iraq's political leaders gave the government the green light Tuesday to begin negotiating a deal with the U.S. to keep American troops in the country past the end of the year to train Iraqi security forces.

Top US officer pushes for troop decision in Iraq (AFP/Getty Images/File) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:31 PM PDT AFP/Getty Images/File - Iraq must decide on the future of the US troop presence in the country as soon as possible and include provisions on immunity for American soldiers, the top US military officer said in Baghdad on Tuesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,473 (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 10:13 AM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, August 2, 2011, at least 4,473 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq sentences 3 to death in Baghdad church attack (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:48 AM PDT AP - An Iraqi court sentenced three men to death Tuesday for masterminding a church siege last year that killed 68 people in one of the most horrific attacks on the nation's Christian minority.

Bombers target churches in northern Iraq: police (Reuters) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT Reuters - A car bomb exploded near a Catholic Church in northern Iraq on Tuesday, injuring at least 16 people in part of a coordinated attack on Christian places of worship in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk, a senior police official said.

US troops must have legal immunity to stay in Iraq (AP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:46 AM PDT AP - The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that American troops must be given immunity from prosecution as part of any agreement to keep them in Iraq beyond the end of the year and that this protection must be approved by Iraq's parliament.

U.S. troops in Iraq will need immunity: U.S. chief (Reuters) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:50 AM PDT Reuters - Any agreement for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal would require the Iraqi parliament to agree to grant American soldiers legal immunity, the top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday.

US says Iran-backed militia attacks down in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:40 AM PDT AFP - There has been a significant decline in attacks carried out by Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq in recent weeks, after June saw the highest US death toll in two years, the top US officer said on Tuesday.

Car bomb at Kirkuk church injures 15: police (AFP) Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:57 PM PDT AFP - Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a police officer and a priest said.

Iraq's government shuts down amid 120-degree temps - and no A/C (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:24 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq declared a government holiday due to the heat for the first time today, as temperatures soared above 120 degrees F. (50 degrees C.) in the midst of a summer electricity crisis that has sparked public protests.

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