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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Fearful, Iraq's Sunnis leave mixed neighborhoods (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:10 AM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 photo, people gather at a coffee shop in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive Sunni-Shiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. The numbers so far are small and not easy to track with precision, but anecdotal accounts and a rise in business at real estate agencies in Sunni neighborhoods reveal a Sunni community contemplating the worse-case scenario and acting before it's too late. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The question was disturbing: Why do you live here?

Iraqi leader calls for unity, political stability (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki speaks to his supporters in Baghdad, Iraq. Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says the end of the American military presence in Iraq is a new dawn for his country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq's prime minister called Sunday for unity and greater political stability to ensure the country's security after the end of the American military presence.

Iraqi civilian deaths in December lowest level in 2011 (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 05:23 AM PST

Reuters - The number of civilians killed in violence across Iraq dropped to a year low in December, government figures showed on Sunday, despite bombings that rocked the capital after the pullout of U.S. forces.

Feeling marginalized, some Iraq Sunnis eye autonomy (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 03:30 AM PST

Reuters - Amjad Abdul-Salam is one of a growing number of Iraqis who say a separate state for his fellow Sunni Muslims is the only way to stop the country sliding back into sectarian chaos.

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