Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift
• Every 4 years, something more than just politics
• Clinton's planned Pacific trip 'sends message to China'
• Dead Japanese reporter had nine bullet wounds: police
• Iraqi officials: Series of attacks kill 8 people
• Iraq attacks kill 10 people
• Iraq seeks to curb frontier spillover from Syria crisis
• Exclusive: Iraq pipeline delays threaten Shell's Majnoon
• NATO says combat operations unaffected by pullout logistics
• AP Interview Transcript With President Obama
• Australia reopens probe of 1982 anti-Israel bombings
• Today in History
• Car runs down NH memorial ride cyclists, killing 2

Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:49 PM PDT Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party's two core wings: social conservatives and corporate interests.

Every 4 years, something more than just politics Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:45 PM PDT So much can change in four years.

Clinton's planned Pacific trip 'sends message to China' Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:26 PM PDT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare foray to the South Pacific this week, in a move analysts say is aimed at curbing China's growing influence among the region's small island nations.

Dead Japanese reporter had nine bullet wounds: police Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT A veteran Japanese war reporter killed while covering the anti-regime movement in Syria suffered nine bullet wounds with the fatal injury sustained in the neck, police said Sunday after an autopsy.

Iraqi officials: Series of attacks kill 8 people Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT Attacks by insurgents killed eight police and soldiers in Iraq Sunday, police said, the latest onslaught meant to undermine the Baghdad government.

Iraq attacks kill 10 people Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:17 AM PDT A series of attacks in and around Baghdad and in north Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including three soldiers and two policemen, security and medical officials said.

Iraq seeks to curb frontier spillover from Syria crisis Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military is trying to staunch spillover from Syria's crisis, tightening border controls as its troops exchange fire with gunmen, rockets hit a frontier patrol and Syrian army shells land on an Iraqi border town. Iraq's army last week took over frontier operations. A border crossing to Syria's Albu Kamal is temporarily closed as Syrian forces backed by aircraft and rebels fight to control the town, which sits on key supply routes from Iraq. Spillover from Syria worries an Iraqi government struggling to overcome its own insurgency and legacy of sectarian violence. ...

Exclusive: Iraq pipeline delays threaten Shell's Majnoon Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Delays in Iraq's pipeline construction threaten to stall production at Royal Dutch Shell's Majnoon oilfield for at least three months, forcing the field to miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day, oil ministry documents showed. Wary of losses, Shell has asked Iraq for a waiver to start recovering costs if Majnoon does not meet its first commercial production target by year-end - a contract requirement before costs can be retrieved, according to documents seen by Reuters. Shell's troubles illustrate infrastructure hurdles facing oil operators in the OPEC nation. ...

NATO says combat operations unaffected by pullout logistics Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. logistics commander rejected accusations on Sunday from frontline combat troops that the complicated rollback from bases across Afghanistan and packing up of military equipment was disrupting NATO-led operations against insurgents. U.S. Brigadier-General Steven Shapiro said around 400 bases had been successfully closed or handed to Afghan security forces from a high of around 800 last October as part of a withdrawal of foreign troops from combat operations winding up in 2014. ...

AP Interview Transcript With President Obama Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT AP interview transcript with President Obama

Australia reopens probe of 1982 anti-Israel bombings Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:23 AM PDT Australian police Sunday reopened inquiries into the 1982 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Sydney and a Jewish club, reportedly after interviewing an extremist jailed over a blast on a Pan Am flight that year.

Today in History Posted: 25 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT Today is Sunday, Aug. 26, the 239th day of 2012. There are 127 days left in the year.

Car runs down NH memorial ride cyclists, killing 2 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 05:43 PM PDT Police say an 87-year-old driver crossed the center lane of traffic and struck a bevy of motorcyclists participating in a New Hampshire memorial ride, killing two of them. Six other people were hurt.

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