Reuters - From a money-counting table stacked with cash to a staircase out in the hallway, a long line of U.S.-backed Iraqi fighters wait patiently for their dues.
AFP - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari flew in to Damascus on Tuesday, on a surprise visit two weeks after a US raid on a Syrian village launched from Iraq that caused tension with Baghdad.
AFP - Supporters of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, the main Iranian opposition group, began the third month of a protest in front of UN headquarters Tuesday, seeking protection for residents of a group encampment in Iraq.
AFP - Authorities in Baghdad on Tuesday opened a major bridge linking historic Sunni and Shiite districts that was closed in 2005 after nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims perished in a deadly stampede.
Reuters - Two roadside bombs exploded in a crowd of part time laborers in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 17, police said.
Reuters - Sunnis and Shi'ites made an emotional reach across the sectarian divide on Tuesday, reopening a Baghdad bridge between the two communities closed since a 2005 stampede, the deadliest incident of the war.
AP - As of Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at least 4,193 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said passage of a law clearing the way for provincial elections in Iraq was "a milestone" in the process of national reconciliation, but he warned of the possibility of election violence.
AP - The fate of an agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years rests with Iraq's largest Shiite party, which must choose between its two main partners: the United States and Iran.