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2008-11-15 18:56

White House endorses text of US-Iraq military pact (AFP)

Iraqi Members of Parliament from the Moqtada al-Sadr block, sit outside the Iraqi parliament main entrance in Baghdad to protest the State of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraqi and US Governments in October 2008. The White House said on Friday the text of an accord on the future of US forces in Iraq was a AFP - The White House said on Friday the text of an accord on the future of US forces in Iraq was a "good agreement," shortly before the Baghdad cabinet was set to weigh in on the deal.


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2008-11-15 18:56

Iraqi prime minister now backs U.S. security accord (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD

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2008-11-15 18:56

Counting the dead gets more complicated in Iraq (AP)

Jassim Hatem, right, grieves as his son's coffin is taken for burial in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Ali Jassim, 21, was one of 23 people killed in a string of bombings that rocked Baghdad for the third consecutive day on Thursday. By one count, it's been the deadliest three-day period in weeks in Baghdad with 56 people killed in bombings. But the U.S. military puts the overall death toll at about five. Counting the dead has never been an exact science in Iraq, but the discrepancies appear to be widening as the political stakes grow.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - This much is agreed

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2008-11-15 12:58

Iraq improving but al Qaeda, Iran still threats: U.S. (Reuters)

Burnt vehicles are seen after a bomb attack in northern Baghdad's Shaab district November 13, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Violence in Iraq has decreased sharply but al Qaeda, Iranian-backed fighters and other militants remain a serious threat, as this week's bomb attacks showed, Washington's U.N. envoy said on Friday.


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2008-11-15 12:58

Iraq's top Shiite cleric to let govt decide on US pact (AFP)

Shiite Muslim men and clerics take part in the Friday noon prayers at the Imam Hussein mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala. Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani -- revered as the highest religious authority by Iraq's Shiite majority -- will leave it to the government to decide on a controversial US military pact.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric will leave it to the government to decide on a controversial US military pact, but associates of the reclusive leader said it must respect Iraqi sovereignty.


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2008-11-15 12:58

British troops out of Iraq by end of 2009: Iraqi official (AFP)

British soldiers secure the road around Basra airport in 2007. Iraq is likely to approve a military pact with a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by 2011 and British troops will leave by the end of next year, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - All British troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year and a controversial Iraq-US security pact is likely to be approved by Baghdad this weekend, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.


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2008-11-15 06:50

US mil: soldier dies of noncombat causes in Iraq (AP)

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of a noncombat cause in western Iraq.

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2008-11-15 06:50

American University takes root in northern Iraq (AP)

A professor supervises her students' work at the American University in Iraq in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Tucked away in the heart of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, a U.S. style university with bold plans to attract the country's top talent has quickly found a following among young Iraqis. The American University in Iraq, which threw open its doors to students last January, has seen its enrollment soar almost sixfold in its second academic year.(AP Photo/ Yahya Ahmed)AP - Tucked away in the heart of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, a U.S. style university with bold plans to attract the country's top talent has quickly found a following among young Iraqis.


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2008-11-15 06:50

Azerbaijan to withdraw troops from Iraq (AP)

AP - Azerbaijan's parliament has voted to pull the ex-Soviet republic's small peacekeeping force out of Iraq.

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2008-11-15 00:52

Civilian cargo plane crashes in Iraq, 7 killed (Reuters)

A civilian cargo aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday killing all seven people on board, the U.S. military and shipping firm FedEx said. (Graphic/Reuters)Reuters - A civilian cargo aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday killing all seven people on board, the U.S. military and shipping firm FedEx said.


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2008-11-15 00:52

Iraqis measure progress with flip of switch (Reuters)

A worker fixes electric cables in Baghdad's Sadr City November 11, 2008. Electricity has become a central, stubbornly negative, bellwether in assessing how far the country has come since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. Iraq's electricity system is improving, but supply still meets only about half of demand, shaping how ordinary people go about their lives and hobbling efforts to rebuild a shattered economy even as violence across the country drops sharply. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)Reuters - For many Iraqis, progress in rebuilding a nation reduced to rubble by years of war and destruction is measured by the flick of a switch.


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2008-11-15 00:52

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,196 (AP)

A U.S Army soldier of 3rd platoon, 302nd Military Police Company watches at the top floor of a building, as black smoke rises on the sky in the city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - As of Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at least 4,196 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


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