Iraq
US, Iraq, Turkey to fight PKK ‘terrorists’: US embassy
(AFP)
20 Nov 2008 at 10:31am
AFP - The United States, Iraq, and Turkey have condemned the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a “terrorist organisation” and formed a joint committee to combat them, the US embassy said Thursday.
Iraqi parliament likely to approve US pact
(AFP)
20 Nov 2008 at 10:26am
AFP - Iraq’s parliament appeared likely to approve a comprehensive US military pact that would see all troops leave by the end of 2011 despite a loud and contentious debate of the measure on Thursday.
Shouting and pounding, Iraqis fight over US pact
(AP)
20 Nov 2008 at 9:37am
AP - Opposition lawmakers shouted and pounded their desks in protest Thursday in a second day of emotional debate in parliament over a proposed agreement with the U.S. that would allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three more years.
U.S. forces kill Qaeda leader wanted for attacks
(Reuters)
20 Nov 2008 at 9:16am
Reuters - U.S. forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader wanted for planning suicide bombings, kidnappings and assassinations, including the abduction and killing of a U.S. army sergeant in 2004, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
US raid kills Iraqi blamed in 2004 reservist death
(AP)
20 Nov 2008 at 7:57am
AP - An al-Qaida in Iraq leader blamed in the 2004 abduction and murder of an Army reservist and other deadly attacks over several years was killed in an American raid in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday.
Top Iraq Shiite cleric demands MP vote on US pact
(AFP)
20 Nov 2008 at 5:25am
AFP - Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq’s highest Shiite religious authority, on Thursday lashed out at lawmakers who had left on a pilgrimage instead of voting on a divisive US military pact.
U.S. pact can pass Iraqi parliament: minister
(Reuters)
20 Nov 2008 at 4:25am
Reuters - A pact allowing U.S. troops to stay in Iraq for three more years has a chance of being approved by parliament despite some heated opposition, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday.
Dead San Diego Marine again denied Medal of Honor
(AP)
19 Nov 2008 at 10:52pm
AP - The Department of Defense has reaffirmed its decision not to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine from San Diego who witnesses say threw himself on a grenade to save his colleagues during fierce fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200
(AP)
19 Nov 2008 at 9:30pm
AP - As of Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Defense officials highly critical of U.S.-Iraq troop accord
(McClatchy N…
19 Nov 2008 at 7:43pm
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for the next three years than the U.S. had ever contemplated.
Gates, Rice defend US-Iraq security agreement
(AP)
19 Nov 2008 at 5:40pm
AP - The security agreement between U.S. and Iraq provides both the time and authority needed for American troops to train Iraqi forces and pursue terrorists, senior Bush administration officials said Wednesday.
Lawmaker accuses Bush of secrecy over Iraq deal
(Reuters)
19 Nov 2008 at 5:38pm
Reuters - The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday.
Iraqis doubt security agreement will end U.S. presence
(McClatchy Newspa…
19 Nov 2008 at 4:21pm
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi and American leaders say that a new security pact will have all U.S. forces and military contractors out of Iraq by 2012, but 14th Ramadan Street is skeptical.
White House confident Iraq accord will pass
(AFP)
19 Nov 2008 at 1:50pm
AFP - The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.
Hardline Iraqi MPs shout down US pact in parliament
(AFP)
19 Nov 2008 at 10:55am
AFP - Lawmakers loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shouted down the Iraqi parliament’s second reading on Wednesday of a military pact allowing US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.
Iraqi forces can control restive north: US general
(AFP)
19 Nov 2008 at 9:29am
AFP - Iraqi forces are ready to take security control of the north of the war-torn country, one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military General Tony Thomas told AFP.
Iraq discovers remains of 150 Kurds in south Iraq
(Reuters)
19 Nov 2008 at 9:08am
Reuters - Iraqi officials flew the remains of 150 Kurds found in a mass grave home to Kurdistan on Wednesday, after a moving ceremony that paid tribute to victims of repression under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
US arrests suspected Iranian agent in Iraq
(AP)
19 Nov 2008 at 1:25am
AP - The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.
Pact would force U.S. troops to leave Iraq by ‘12
(McClatchy Newspapers)
18 Nov 2008 at 6:30pm
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The status of forces of agreement between the United States and Iraq is now called the withdrawal agreement, and that’s exactly what it is: an ultimate end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
Iranian commando arrested at Baghdad airport: US
(AFP)
18 Nov 2008 at 6:01pm
AFP - Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged “senior” Iranian commando from the elite Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force at Baghdad International Airport, the US military said Wednesday.
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