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NEWS ABOUT: Iraq

Iraq stories: 1276 news summaries

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Troops to Serve Longer in Iraq

Many will spend
more time in combat zones than the boys
of World War II

Apr 12, 07 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan will have their tours of duty extended to 15 months, from the standard one year, the military said yesterday. The policy—enacted to alleviate troop shortages—allows soldiers to remain at home for at least one year between assignments.  “Our forces are... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • military • Robert Gates • US troops • tour of duty • US Army

Mosque Raid Ignites Baghdad Battle

Residents backed militants in Sunni stronghold

Apr 11, 07 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi soldiers who raided a Baghdad mosque during worship set off an all-day battle yesterday the New York Times calls the most sustained fighting since the start of the new security plan. US troops and Iraqi soldiers fought Sunni militants joined by residents in the largely Sunni Ineighborhood of Fadhil. More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Baghdad • Fadhil • violence • militant

Iran Raises Nuclear Stakes

'Can Produce Uranium on Industrial Scale'

Apr 10, 07 6:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran claims to have scaled up its nuclear capability by enriching uranium "on an industrial scale, " the Guardian reports, in defiance of U.S. and U.N. pressure to dimantle the program. The announcement from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  is sure to heighten conflict with the White House and... More »

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Iraq • Iran • nuclear proliferation • United Nations • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Ali Larijani • uranium

Baghdad No Safer 2 Months Into Surge

As insurgents adapt,  the body count is
rising again

Apr 9, 07 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baghdad is no more stable than it was before the American troop surge, the Times reports. With death squads trying to stay off the radar, sectarian executions have dropped in some corners of the city. But executions have given way to increased car bombings, chlorine gas attacks, and the burning... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • security • troop surge • force buildup • US troops • violence

Anti-American Protests
Mark Iraqi Anniversary

Al-Sadr demonstrations draw tens of thousands

Apr 9, 07 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of Iraqis converged today on the southern city of Najaf, a Shia shrine, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.  Waving Iraqi flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans,  demonstators marched from Kufa to neighboring Najaf. AP reports that two cordons of Iraqi... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • Mahdi Army • protests • Najaf • Muqtada al-Sadr

Al-Sadr Preaches Peace — But Not
Toward U.S.

Urges Iraqis to unite against "occupiers"

Apr 8, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqis Sunday to stop killing each other—and join together to rid their country of Americans. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, he urged both Iraqi forces and insurgents to direct their fight against "the occupiers,"... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Shiite • insurgents • Mahdi Army • America • war • Najaf • Muqtada al-Sadr

Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

Freedom fosters faith and scholarship

Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan.... More »

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Iraq • education • Islam • America • school • scholarship • University of Delaware • Muslim • Iraq war

Insuring Against Political Risks

Coups, riots, civil wars: Companies buy huge policies covering political upheaval

Apr 6, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Political-risk insurance has quietly become a billion-dollar industry, the Economist reports, as Western corporations doing business in the developing world crave protection against coups, embargoes and civil wars. The Berne Union, a syndicate of 30 of the field's biggest insurers, says members have $113 billion in outstanding policies in some... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • insurance companies • political risk • Berne Union • insurance

Iraq Is Breaking the Army

Inadequate training, gear, hobbles troops

Apr 6, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The U.S. Army is stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan that it's sending ill-prepared and ill-equipped young people into harm’s way, Time reports. And the surge in troops is only deepening the crisis: Two of the five new brigades bound for the Middle East will skip vital... More »

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Iraq • John Abizaid • troop surge • US troops • US Army • soldier • training • Iraq war

Big Oil Shut Out
Of Iraq Deals

First new oil contracts go to China, India—even Vietnam and Indonesia

Apr 6, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - U.S. oil companies are far from first in line as Iraq doles out its initial oil contracts.   China, India—even Vietnam and Indonesia—have the inside track instead, thanks to contracts and infrastructure dating back to the Saddam regime, and more positive Iraqi sentiment. "They have... More »

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Iraq • China • oil • Indonesia • Vietnam • India • Iraq oil • Exxon • Shell • Chevron • BP • business • United States • ExxonMobil • fuel

Officer Walls Sects Apart
in Baghdad

Peace barriers defy official policy and stir controversy—but they're working 

Apr 5, 07 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lt. Col. Jeff Peterson is trying to pacify Baghdad one wall at a time, erecting concrete barriers around Sunni and Shiites neighborhoods in the sector of the city he controls. Each mini-community has its own market, mosque, and generator. It's a controversial strategy most often used during civil wars, the... More »

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Iraq • military • Sunni • Shiite • Baghdad • military strategy • US Army • Jeff Peterson

Was There
a Deal with Iran?

Iranian prisoner in
Iraq was freed before
British sailors were

Apr 5, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Officials deny that concessions were made to Iran for the release of the captured British sailors, but the Times speculates that there may have been a secret deal. An Iranian diplomat held in Iraq for eight weeks was freed the day before the British prisoners were. Also, American officials said... More »

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Iraq • Iran • sailor • deal • Britain • hostage

British Sailors Come Home

Apr 5, 07 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fifteen British sailors captured by Iran are back in the UK. As soon as the British Airways jet touched down as Heathrow, Blair traded his measured diplomatic tone  for harsher words, warning the "elements of the Iranian regime" were still arming insurgents inside Iraq." More »

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Iraq • Iran • Tony Blair • terrorism • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • war • Britain • hostage

Support The Troops With
A War Tax

Dems should insist
on paying, not borrowing, for war

Apr 3, 07 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the Democrats want to support the troops but call the question on the war, they should pass a "war tax,"  writes Richard Hall in the Detroit Free Press. They could adopt the supplemental appropriations, but attach an income tax surcharge to finance it. Would the president... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Democrats • taxes • Detroit • war • US troops • Iraq war

The Surge Is
Our Last Stand 

By the beginning of the coming year, "the Army will begin to unravel"

Apr 3, 07 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - "We are in a position of strategic peril," says a retired general who's just back from Bagdhad in a blunt, sobering piece in the L.A. Times. Barry McCaffrey, now at West Point, urges support of the surge and the new strategy to secure Baghdad without  sugar coating... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • troop surge • US troops • timetable • US Army

The Letter That Launched a War

The Post tracks the bogus document from an Italian journalist to the President's hands

Apr 3, 07 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - How the so-called "Italian Letter"—the discredited document suggesting Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Niger—made its way from the hands of an Italian journalist into the President's State of the Union speech is the subject of an irresistible piece of sleuthing by  Peter Eisner in... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • nuclear proliferation • George W. Bush

Bush Staying the Course on Veto

President refuses to compromise on Iraq funding

Apr 3, 07 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush is staying the course in the war with Congress, ripping into "Democrat leaders" in a press conference today, and repeating his vow to veto any bills with troop withdrawal deadlines that crossed his desk. Congress, he said, is more clearly interested in fighting political battles than real ones. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Congress • Pentagon • Democrats • Republican • politics • presidential politics • veto • troop withdrawal • George W. Bush

Cleric Opposes Rebaathification

Sistani rejects law aimed at quelling
Sunni insurgency

Apr 3, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bill allowing Saddam's party members back into power in Iraq has been rejected by that country's most powerful cleric. The law, aggressively  pushed by the U.S.,  would  allow former low-level Baathists--most of them Sunnis--to hold positions in government. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the powerful Shiite cleric, dismissed... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Sunni • Shiite • Ba'thists • Ali al Sistani • Paul Bremer • Baath Party

Baghdad Merchants
Beg to Differ
With McCain

Say sunny security assessment is phony

Apr 3, 07 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Of course John McCain found Baghdad's central market perfectly safe during his weekend visit: He came with 100 soldiers in armored Humvees, backed by attack helicopters and sharpshooters. In a follow-up visit, Kirk Semple of the New York Times found merchants  incredulous at the Congressional delegation's sunny description of the... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Congress • John McCain • Middle East • terrorism • Republican • sectarian violence • Baghdad • Humvees • Mike Pence • security • market • Election 2008

Thompson Joins Race for 2008

Claims he's the only real conservative
in the GOP field

Apr 2, 07 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former governor and Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson announced  for president yesterday, staking a claim to the territory to the right of the other GOP contenders. "I am the reliable conservative, my record shows that,"  said the one-time secretary of Health and Human Services and four-term governor... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Middle East • Republican • health insurance • politics • Tommy Thompson • Health and Human Services • presidency • Wisconsin • Cabinet • presidential campaign • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

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