Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Iraq war over, US troops coming home, Obama says (AP)
• U.S. to pull out of Iraq after nearly 9 years of war (Reuters)
• Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)
• Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)
• End in sight, U.S. veterans ponder pain of Iraq war (Reuters)
• For Veteran, Iraq Decision a Relief, but no Surprise (ContributorNetwork)
• Analysis: Will Obama's foreign policy success help? (Reuters)
• Obama's Iraq Withdraw Courts Disaster in the Middle East (ContributorNetwork)
• The Iraq War, by the Numbers (ContributorNetwork)
• Panetta: Military's role to be discussed with Iraq (AP)
• The Cost of 9 Years of American Occupation in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• Veteran: Cautious Optimism in the Face of Obama's Iraq Annoucement (ContributorNetwork)
• Army Wife: Iraq Troop Withdrawal Good for Family's Sanity (ContributorNetwork)
• Could Libya Become the Next Iraq? (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama on ending the Iraq war, over the years (AP)
• Analysis: Turkish offensive in Iraq risky for unstable region (Reuters)

Iraq war over, US troops coming home, Obama says (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:39 PM PDT AP - America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops ""will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday.

U.S. to pull out of Iraq after nearly 9 years of war (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing U.S. hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighboring Iran's influence.

Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

End in sight, U.S. veterans ponder pain of Iraq war (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:38 PM PDT Reuters - They remembered friends who died and brave Iraqis they had met, but news on Friday that the Iraq war was ending couldn't erase questions among U.S. veterans about whether it has all been worth it.

For Veteran, Iraq Decision a Relief, but no Surprise (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:12 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - Yahoo! News asked service members and their families for their perspective on Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq . Below is a story from a reader.

Analysis: Will Obama's foreign policy success help? (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama delivered on another foreign policy promise on Friday with plans to pull the last U.S. troops from Iraq. But in a re-election campaign all about the weak U.S. economy, he may not get much credit.

Obama's Iraq Withdraw Courts Disaster in the Middle East (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:58 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Barack Obama has announced the full and total withdraw of American troops from Iraq. Mission accomplished, he might have said. Our long, national nightmare is now over.

The Iraq War, by the Numbers (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:58 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - On Friday, President Barack Obama announced the end of the Iraq War, saying that U.S. troops will be leaving the country by the end of the year. This comes after many talks with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who at first had expressed concerns that the Iraqi forces would need a U.S. presence to remain in his country as a training force. The Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom has been a very long and arduous road for all involved. Here is some more information on this war by the numbers.

Panetta: Military's role to be discussed with Iraq (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:55 PM PDT AP - Once all U.S. troops in Iraq have left by year's end, Washington will negotiate with the Iraqi government on a possible American role in training the country's land and air forces, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday.

The Cost of 9 Years of American Occupation in Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:52 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the war in Iraq is over, according to Associated Press. All American troops would return home by the end of the year under terms of withdrawal negotiated by his predecessor in 2008, he said.

Veteran: Cautious Optimism in the Face of Obama's Iraq Annoucement (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:26 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - Yahoo! News asked service members and their families for their perspective on Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Below is a story from a reader.

Army Wife: Iraq Troop Withdrawal Good for Family's Sanity (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:42 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - Yahoo! News asked service members and their families for their perspective on Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Below is a story from a reader.

Could Libya Become the Next Iraq? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:28 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - Now that Moammar Gadhafi is dead, can the transitional government in Libya establish order and restore public confidence in government or are they headed down the same path as Iraq?

Obama on ending the Iraq war, over the years (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:54 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama announced Friday that U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by year's end and the war would be over. It's not the first time he's declared an end to the conflict that began when the U.S. invaded in 2003.

Analysis: Turkish offensive in Iraq risky for unstable region (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:16 AM PDT Reuters - A full-blown Turkish military incursion into Iraq may assuage public anger over this week's attacks by Kurdish militants, but would not deal a fatal blow to the rebels and could inflame Turkey's ties with its Middle East neighbors.

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