Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• UN, Iraq agree on Camp Ashraf resettlement plan (AP)
• Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi army (Reuters)
• U.S. urges dialogue over Iraqi crisis (Reuters)
• Biden calls Iraqi leaders after wave of violence (AP)
• Iraqi political parties seek to resolve crisis (Reuters)
• As Christmas arrives, crisis for Mideast Christians (The Christian Science Monitor)

UN, Iraq agree on Camp Ashraf resettlement plan (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 03:42 PM PST AP - The United Nations and the Iraqi government have signed an agreement to relocate several thousand Iranian exiles living in a camp in northeastern Iraq, the U.N.'s office in Baghdad announced Sunday.

Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi army (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 02:03 PM PST Reuters - Two mortars hit an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq just days after Baghdad extended a year-end deadline for the camp to be closed as the U.N. negotiated resettlement of 3,000 residents there, the Iraqi military said Sunday.

U.S. urges dialogue over Iraqi crisis (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 10:50 AM PST Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden spoke by telephone on Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki about violence in Baghdad and a political crisis that has erupted in the week since the last American troops left Iraq.

Biden calls Iraqi leaders after wave of violence (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:46 AM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden is reaching out to Iraq's leaders to discuss recent violence there and the country's tenuous political climate.

Iraqi political parties seek to resolve crisis (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:11 AM PST Reuters - Iraqi lawmakers tried on Sunday to negotiate an end to the country's worst political crisis in a year after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sought his Sunni vice president's arrest on charges he ran an assassination squad.

As Christmas arrives, crisis for Mideast Christians (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Dec 2011 06:00 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - This fall, a group of Iraqi-American Christians ramped up pressure on the Obama administration, warning that their ancient community in Iraq â€" already hobbled by eight years of war â€" could be pushed over the brink entirely after US forces withdraw by year's end.

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