AP - Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on President-elect Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and abandon the war on terror, an Internet monitoring service reported Friday.
AFP - US and Iraqi forces killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader allegedly responsible for organising car bombs and suicide attacks in a firefight outside Baghdad, the US military said on Saturday.
Reuters - Iraqi and U.S. officials are concerned about an apparent surge in "sticky bombs," explosives fixed to vehicles with magnets or glue, as a tactic for assassinating Iraqi officials.
AFP - Several prominent Shiite preachers in Iraq gave fiery Friday sermons warning against the signing of a new security agreement which would keep US forces in the country for up to another three years.