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2008-11-10 18:24

Syrian president criticizes proposed US-Iraq pact (AP)

Syrian President Bashar Assad greets Arab Parliamentarians at the opening of their session in Damascus Sunday Nov 9 2008. In a speech, Assad said Israel is not genuine in its professed desire for peace with its Arab neighbors. He says Israel must prove it wants peace by withdrawing from all occupied Arab territories and will get no more concession from Damascus.(AP Photo /Bassem Tellawi).AP - Syria's president criticized Sunday a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years.


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2008-11-10 18:24

Syria's Assad says US should withdraw from Iraq (AFP)

US soldiers patrol the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit on November 5. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called on the United States to pull its troops out of Iraq, saying they posed a threat to neighbouring states.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday called on the United States to pull its troops out of Iraq, saying they posed a threat to neighbouring states.


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2008-11-10 18:24

Iraqi local elections set for January 31 (AFP)

An Iraqi casts his vote during a constitutional referendum in 2005. Iraq will hold long-awaited provincial elections -- seen by Washington as a key benchmark for achieving national reconciliation -- on January 31.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)AFP - Iraq on Sunday timetabled long-awaited provincial elections for January 31 as an opinion poll showed religious parties apparently losing support.


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2008-11-10 12:24

Iraq presidency approves local council quota for minorities (AFP)

Iraq Presidency Council Chief of Staff Naseer al-Ani. Iraq's three-member presidency council on Saturday approved a controversial resolution that will reserve six local council seats for the nation's minority groups.(AFP/POOL/File)AFP - Iraq's three-member presidency council on Saturday approved a controversial resolution that will reserve six local council seats for the nation's minority groups.


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2008-11-10 12:24

Iraqi council OKs Christian quota bill (AP)

Nine-year-old Abdulla Mohammed is helped by a medic in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. A suicide bomber struck in a crowd that had gathered where an explosion went off moments earlier, with both blasts killing at least 28 people and wounding 68 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali)AP - Iraq's presidential council Saturday signed off on legislation giving Christians and other religious minorities fewer guaranteed seats on provincial councils than the U.N. and some political groups had recommended.


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2008-11-10 12:24

Female suicide bomber kills three at Iraqi hospital (AFP)

A US soldier stands guard as Iraqi firefighters battle a blaze in Fallujah. A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives vest in front of a hospital near the Iraqi city of Fallujah, killing three people and wounding seven.(AFP/US Military/File/Cpl. Samuel D. Corum)AFP - A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives vest in front of a hospital near the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Sunday, killing three people and wounding seven, security officials said.


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2008-11-10 06:04

US combat troops in Iraq battle to defend savings (AFP)

US soldiers patrol on November 5, 2008 a residential neighbourhood in central Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. The economic crisis back home has dealth a cruel blow to combat troops. The impact of the crisis on the savings and pensions of US troops in Iraq is difficult to estimate. But it has spared neither the young recruits nor the veterans nearing retirement.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - US Lieutenant Colonel Mark Grabski has been busy on the computer over the past few weeks -- not to follow the history-making presidential election but to check on his dwindling savings.


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2008-11-10 06:04

Bush, Obama focus on economy in radio addresses (AP)

President-elect Barack Obama answers a journalist's question during his first press conference following his election victory in Chicago, November 7, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)AP - With the economy in a downward spiral, U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the nation under threat from terrorists, President Bush pledged Saturday to make a smooth transition to an Obama administration a top priority for the rest of his days in office.


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2008-11-10 06:04

German minister plans first postwar visit to Iraq (AP)

AP - Germany says it plans to send a government minister to Iraq early next year

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2008-11-10 00:06

Iraqi forces kill senior al Qaeda leader (Reuters)

Reuters - Iraqi security forces supported by U.S. firepower killed a senior al Qaeda leader who made car bombs and ran Islamist militant cells throughout northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday.

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2008-11-10 00:06

Suicide bombing kills 8 in western Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - Two suicide bombers killed eight people and wounded 14 in an attack on a police headquarters just outside the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Saturday, police said.

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2008-11-10 00:06

Five Iraqis killed in suicide attack (AFP)

A US soldier stands guard during a Peace Concert at Zawrak Park in Baghdad. Five civilians were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint near the western Iraqi town of Ramadi.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Five civilians were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint near the western Iraqi town of Ramadi, police said.


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