Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• U.N. complains to Iraq over attack on dissident camp (Reuters)
• US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Turkey acknowledges killing civilians in Iraq strike (Reuters)
• Turkey: Strikes kill 35 people mistaken for rebels (AP)

U.N. complains to Iraq over attack on dissident camp (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 02:11 PM PST Reuters - The United Nations has complained to Iraq about mortar attacks this week on an Iranian dissident camp near Baghdad and has won a promise that they will be stopped, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.

US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 01:58 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - With the spike in violence in Iraq since the US troop pullout two weeks ago, concern is rising about US weapons sales to Iraq's government and whether a buildup of armaments could even serve to fuel sectarian tension there.

Turkey acknowledges killing civilians in Iraq strike (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 10:18 AM PST Reuters - Turkish warplanes killed 35 civilian smugglers in northern Iraq after mistaking them for Kurdish militants, Ankara's ruling party said on Thursday, promising not to allow a cover-up of an incident that threatens to wreck relations with minority Kurds.

Turkey: Strikes kill 35 people mistaken for rebels (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 09:36 AM PST AP - Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a senior official said Thursday, one of the largest one-day civilian death tolls during Turkey's 27-year drive against the guerrillas.

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