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U.S. military: Senior al Qaeda chief killed in IraqThe U.S. military announced Wednesday that coalition forces recently killed al Qaeda in Iraq's "charismatic" senior leader in northern Iraq.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 15:40
US: Senior Al-Qaida in Iraq Militant Killed
US military says Abu Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, led AQI in northern Iraq until he was killed during an operation in Mosul October 5
Source : voanews.com | 15-Oct-2008 12:49
Madisonville Prepares For Soldier's Funeral
Madisonville residents are preparing for the funeral a Hopkins County soldier who died in combat in Iraq.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 11:03
Iraqi PM meets with president on US security pact
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met Tuesday with the nation's president and two vice presidents to review a "final draft" of the security pact with the United States -- a first step in a process that could ...
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 06:37
Britain says critical to reach forces accord with Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) - It is critical for Iraq to reach an agreement in the next few weeks permitting British troops to stay in the country after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of this year, a British Foreign Office minister said Tuesday.
Iraq and the United States have been negotiating for months over a security agreement to settle the status of American troops once the mandate enacted after the 2003 invasion expires.
Once those negotiations are complete, Britain, which has 4,100 troops in Iraq, wants to secure a similar agreement.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 01:55
Terrorist Explosions Kill, Injure Iraqis
Coalition officials denounced the a oebarbarica and a oecowardlya acts of terrorists who killed more than a dozen Iraqis and injured scores of others with bombings in Iraq over the past several days.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 21:29
Iraq's Kurds to meet Turkish delegation in Baghdad
A senior aide to Iraq's Kurdish leader says the politician plans to meet a Turkish delegation in Baghdad.
The meeting later on Tuesday will be the first direct talks in four years between Turkey and the Kurdish region's president, Massoud Barzani.
Tensions are high after Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers on the Turkey-Iraq border on October 3.
Kurdish authorities condemned the attack. But Turkey has been pressuring them to cut supply lines to the rebels and arrest and hand over rebel leaders.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 16:45
Egypt's FM: Better Iraq Security Allows Closer Ties
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit says building relations between the two countries will increase as security in Iraq improves
Source : voanews.com | 14-Oct-2008 14:20
Turkey, Iraq Meet in Baghdad on Border Security
Iraqi prime minister's office says that during meeting Nouri al-Maliki condemned cross-border attacks on Turkey by Kurdish rebels
Source : voanews.com | 14-Oct-2008 14:01
US-Iraq deployment pact may miss deadline
BAGHDAD a ' Time's running out for reaching a security agreement with the United States, and an accord is unlikely before the end of this year, Iraq's Sunni Muslim vice president said Monday.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 12:02
Iraq strives to move beyond body count
By Missy Ryan
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In five years of war, Iraq has been hostage to a parade of grim statistics: car bombs, corpses, cholera and refugees fleeing rampant bloodshed.
But as violence drops sharply and Iraq turns toward reconstruction, officials seize upon a more quotidian, yet scarcely less important, set of numbers: economic output, employment, childhood vaccinations and even the whereabouts of Iraq's war-weary population.
The U.S. government, World Bank and other donors have backed efforts in recent years to help Iraqi's statistics agency, COSIT, get a better grasp of the country's vital figures.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 07:34
Beloved pup's fate in Iraq becomes international cause
Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 14:36. Army Sgt. Gwen Beberg isn't having an easy year in Iraq.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 02:50
Rochester Teens on National Forum
They asked Obama and McCain questions about gas prices and the Iraq War
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 22:21
US Commander: Too Early to Leave Anbar Province
American Forces Press Service Despite transitioning Anbar province to Iraqi control last month, it's still too soon for US troops to withdraw from the region, the commander of Multinational Force West said.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 17:46
US: Iran Tries to Bribe Iraqis Against US Troop Agreement
Washington Post newspaper quotes General Ray Odierno as saying Iran is trying to undermine bilateral agreement that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq after the end of this year
Source : voanews.com | 13-Oct-2008 14:05
Iraq calmer but copycat kidnappings spread
Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again.
Besides the personal tragedy, his disappearance and those that have followed have taken on a larger significance. They mark a turning point in terrorist tactics that U.S. intelligence officials say has produced a startling statistic: a 500 percent increase in foreigners taken hostage around the world as militants adopt the methods of the most violent figures in the Iraq insurgency.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 13:20
Iraqi PM Tells British Troops to Go Home
In an interview with The Times newspaper published Monday, Mr. Maliki thanked the British troops for their help
Source : voanews.com | 13-Oct-2008 10:28
Saddam Hussein nostalgia People in the Iraqi town of Dujail say they...
'Dinner guest': one Shiite from the town said he would invite the former dictator to his house for a meal.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 08:51
Iraq says time for British troops to go: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted on Monday as saying it was time for British combat forces to leave the south of the country because they were no longer needed to maintain security and control.
Maliki told The Times newspaper in an interview there might still be a need for their experience in training Iraqi forces and on some technological issues, but the emphasis was now on business links.
He thanked U.S.-led forces for their "important help" but said "the page has been turned."
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 04:19
Iraq to begin first oil bid round in London
Iraq's oil minister will meet Monday in London with representatives of international oil companies for the first round of bidding for new contracts in the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the minister's spokesman said.
Last April, Iraq chose 35 oil companies out of the 120 that applied to participate in the bidding round to develop six major oil fields and two gas fields.
Topping the list of companies are the world's oil giants: Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC, ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 23:45
Dirndls, oom-pah, sausages? Oktoberfest in Iraq
Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill.
Welcome to Iraq?
It may still be a far cry from the Oktoberfest party in Munich, Germany, that draws in 6 million people each year. But Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is looking to cash in on the relative peace it is enjoying with new investment and _ despite the challenge of attracting foreigners to one of the world's most dangerous countries _ perhaps the beginnings of a tourism industry.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 19:03
Volunteers make over home for vet
Waterford -- An army of volunteers is helping to make life a little easier for an injured Iraq War veteran.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 14:37
Iraqi Government Encourages Refugees, Internally Displaced to Return
International Organization for Migration says 100,000 people have returned to Baghdad and nearly 72,000 more people have returned mostly to the provinces of Anbar and Diyala since September 1
Source : voanews.com | 12-Oct-2008 13:59
Latest Iraqi Violence Kills 16
Separate attacks wound at least 50 others in northern and central Iraq
Source : voanews.com | 12-Oct-2008 13:35
INTERVIEW-US says no surge in violence in Iraq guard transfer
Fears that the U.S. military's handover of neighbourhood guard units to Iraqi control would unleash a new wave of violence in Baghdad have so far proved unwarranted, the U.S. military said.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 09:55
US-Iraq security pact a "pure Iraqi issue": Iran's Ambassador
Iran's ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Qomi said the US-Iraq security pact is a "pure Iraqi issue." Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times , he noted the security pact is one-sided and emphasized the U.S. ...
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 05:20
Former Finnish president named Nobel Peace Prize winner
Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work on conflict resolution.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 00:51
Official: 500 Christian families flee Iraq's Mosul
An upswing in insurgent attacks against Christians in Mosul has forced 500 families to flee in the last week and seek shelter at churches, monasteries and relatives' homes, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province said Saturday.
Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula estimated some 3,000 people have fled the city in what he called a 'major displacement.'
So far this month, police in Mosul have reported finding the bullet-riddled bodies of seven Christians killed in separate attacks, the latest a day laborer found on Wednesday.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 20:26
Iraqi journalist killed in Kirkuk
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Col. Taha al-Din of Kirkuk police said Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a journalist with Iraq Eye media, was assassinated Friday in the city center.
Ethnic and religious tensions have risen in the city, which has been the site of a tense standoff between Arabs and Kurds. Kurds want to incorporate Kirkuk into their semiautonomous region in the north and Iraq's government has been stalled for months over the future status of the oil-rich city.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 15:52
Turkish Military Bombs Kurdish Rebels in Northern Iraq
Military statement says 31 positions of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were successfully hit in the late Friday strikes
Source : voanews.com | 11-Oct-2008 12:31
France markets arms to Iraq after 2-decade lull
France, which famously opposed the Iraq war, is in talks to resume sales of military equipment to Baghdad for the first time in nearly two decades, French and Iraqi officials say.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 11:26
In Iraq, A Shift To Assassinations
As provincial elections approach, some officials worry that assassinations will increase as political parties try to eradicate their competitors.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 06:55
Rebuilding hope in Samarra
Oct. 10 - As Golden Mosque in Samarra is restored, some hope it will become symbol of reconciliation and recovery.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 02:33
Obama's Illegal Meddling Has Undercut US Strategic Interests in Iraq
Apparently the Left's messiah doesn't want to wait to be elected before throwing a monkey wrench into our foreign policy: At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to ...
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 22:07
Minister Says Iraq Has No Budget Surplus, Worries over Reconstruction
Iraq's finance minister asserts his country does not have a surplus of funds and expresses concern about the potential impact of the global financial crisis, and falling oil prices, on Iraq.
Source : cfr.org | 10-Oct-2008 21:25
Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 17:34
State Department Report on Iraq: "Consolidating the Gains, Completing the Transition"
Report
Source : cfr.org | 10-Oct-2008 16:39
Petraeus: Serious Ethnic Challenges Loom in Iraq
US military commander warns of possible 'uptick' in violence ahead of regional elections.
Source : voanews.com | 10-Oct-2008 14:53
Many Iraqi Refugees in US Face Hardship
Refugee aid groups say resources for resettling Iraqis are insufficient
Source : voanews.com | 10-Oct-2008 14:30
Blast in Baghdad Shi'ite Area Kills 12
Authorities say another 22 people were injured by bomb, which went off in crowded market in Abu Dshir
Source : voanews.com | 10-Oct-2008 13:49
Three Christians killed in Iraq
Three Christians have been killed in the past 24 hours in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the Voices of Iraq news agency reported on Wednesday, quoting police sources.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 13:06
Turkish Air Strikes Target Kurdish Rebels in Iraq
Military spokesman says rebels detected while trying to sneak into Turkey, most of them were killed
Source : voanews.com | 10-Oct-2008 10:41
U.S. tries tough love to reduce Iraq's dependence
In the past, when Iraqi police here ran out of gas, they often turned to the Marines, who generally obliged by filling the trucks and generators - courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 08:29
Iraqi suicide bomber kills 10
BAGHDAD : A suicide bomber blew herself up in the provincial capital of Diyala Province on Wednesday, killing 10 people on a street that has already been attacked by suicide bombers at least 16 times in the ...
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 03:58
Victory of a different kind
" nce war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 23:29
Roadside Bomb Kills Senior Shi'ite Lawmaker in Iraq
Iraqi authorities say bomb planted on a motorcycle struck a car carrying Saleh al-Auqaeili as he traveled in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood
Source : voanews.com | 09-Oct-2008 19:56