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Pope Benedict Worried About Christians In Iraq
2007-06-21 18:45:00 Returning to a theme he discussed with US President George W. Bush earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he is greatly concerned about the fate of Christian faithful in Iraq . He said he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Christians , Worried
14 US Troops Killed In Iraq
2007-06-21 18:22:00 The United States military said that 14 American troops have died in several attacks in the past 48 hours, including five slain Thursday in a single roadside bombing that also killed four Iraq is in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Troops , Kill , Killed
Japan Parliament Extends Iraq Air Mission
2007-06-20 20:33:00 On Wednesday Japan 's upper house of parliament passed legislation extending the deployment of the country's Air Self-Defense Forces in Iraq for two more years. The extension, which cleared the lower... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Mission , Ends , Liam
Ryan Crocker Has Hope For Iraq
2007-06-20 20:09:00 About twenty-five years ago, a young American Foreign Service officer named Ryan Croc ker was dealing with sectarian militias and suicide bombers in Lebanon. Today, as the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq ,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Hope
Orphans Rescued By US Soldiers In Baghdad
2007-06-20 19:45:00 In Baghdad two dozen boys have been found starved and neglected, some near death, at an orphanage for special-needs children. Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Soldiers , Orphans , Sold , Hans
Wife Of Missing US Soldier Faces Deportation
2007-06-20 19:19:00 The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq could face deportation, her lawyer told a television station. Army Spec. Army Spec. Alex Jimenez has been missing since May 12, when his unit was ambushed by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Wife , Faces , Missing , Soldier , Sold
Troop Surge Could Mean Extended Tours
2007-06-20 18:54:00 The Army is considering whether soldiers could have their combat tours in Iraq extended, depending if President George W. Bush decides to maintain the recent buildup of forces through the spring of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Tours , Surge , Extended , Urge
US Offensive Against Al-Qaeda Continues
2007-06-20 18:28:00 On Wednesday thousands of U.S. troops swept into the northern and southern beltlands of Baghdad in simultaneous operations against militants that the military said was the start of a "summer of hard... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Al Qaeda , Al-Qaeda , Qaeda , Conti
Iraq Ambassador Requests More Staff
2007-06-19 20:46:00 The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the new U.S. ambassador in Iraq says the embassy in Baghdad does not have enough well-qualified staff and has asked the State Department for it's "best... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Assad , Ambassador , Staff , Requests
Tony Blair Knew U.S. Lacked Post-War Plan
2007-06-19 20:20:00 It was reported Sunday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent troops to Iraq, although he knew that the United States had no adequate plan for the post-war period. Peter Mandelson, Blair's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Post , Plan
Iran Open To Further Talks With U.S. Over Iraq
2007-06-19 19:56:00 State-run media reported on Monday that Iran 's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country would be open to holding further talks with the U.S. over Iraq 's security, while also criticizing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Open , With U
Iraq Main Reason For Global Refugee Increase
2007-06-19 19:30:00 For the first time since the beginning of the decade the number of refugees in the world went up in 2006. And the United Nations says Iraq is the main reason for this increase. The UN refugee agency... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Main , Global , Reason , Ease
Baghdad Truck Bomb Kills 78
2007-06-19 19:05:00 On Tuesday a truck bomb struck near a Shiite mosque in a busy commercial district in Baghdad , killing at least 78 people and wounding hundreds more. The blast struck outside the Khillani mosque in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Truck , Bomb , Kill
Major US Offensive Launched Against al-Qaeda
2007-06-19 18:41:00 The U.S. military said that early Tuesday about 10,000 U.S. soldiers launched an offensive against al-Qaida in Iraq northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 22 insurgents. The military said in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Al Qaeda , Launched , Al-Qaeda , Major , Qaeda
Top Sunni Relious Leader Dies
2007-06-18 20:12:00 An official said Iraq's top Sunni Arab religious leader, Sheik Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban, died Sunday at the age of 68. Al-Dabban suffered a heart attack in his hometown of Tikrit, said... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Lead , Dies , Leader , Elio
Bodies of Iraqi Martial Arts Team Found
2007-06-18 19:46:00 It was reported Saturday that the bodies of 13 members of an Iraqi Olympic martial arts team have been recovered near Ramadi. The team was abducted in May 2006 while driving to a training camp in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Martial Arts , Arts , Team , Bodies
Iraq Is World's Second Most Unstable Country
2007-06-18 19:25:00 A recent private survey finds that Iraq is now the second most unstable country in the world, deteriorating from last year's fourth place on a list of the 10 nations most vulnerable to violent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Country , Econ
36 Dead In Iraq Clash
2007-06-18 18:59:00 This morning British troops were involved in a fierce battle with Shiite militiamen in southern Iraq , which resulted in at least 36 deaths. The fighting started 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Dead , Lash , Clash
Basra Police Chief Replaced
2007-06-18 18:35:00 Police said that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired the Basra police chief Monday over his force's failure to stop weekend attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq's second-largest city. A Basra police... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Chief , Police , Lace , Poli
Iraqi Benchmarks Show Some Progress
2007-06-18 18:07:00 A U.S. embassy official said on Monday that Iraq's government, criticised by Washington for its slow progress on three key political benchmarks, could pass two of the laws by the end of July. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Show , Progress , Mark , Iraqi , Marks
Briton Arrested Over Iraq Oil Case
2007-06-14 20:51:00 On Thursday British police arrested a British citizen who the United States accuses of involvement in a scheme to pay kickbacks to Iraq in connection with the scandal-plagued U.N. oil-for-food... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Arrested , Case , Este , Riton
US Steps Up Air Attacks In Iraq
2007-06-07 20:40:00 United States warplanes have again stepped up air attacks in Iraq four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago. The airpower... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Step , Attacks , Tacks , Attack
Oil Jumps To $67 In Reaction To Refinery Rates
2007-06-07 20:15:00 Oil and gasoline futures jumped Thursday as the market reacted to a report of lower U.S. refinery utilization rates on concerns that refineries aren't making enough gasoline to meet domestic demand.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Jump , Fine , Rates , Rate , React
US Troop Surge Nearing Completion
2007-06-07 19:51:00 The United States military said that the buildup of some 30,000 extra U.S. troops aimed at stopping insurgent attacks is nearly complete, but it could take up to two months for the newly arrived... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Surge , Urge
US Death Toll Closes In On 3,500
2007-06-07 19:27:00 On Thursday, Iraq's seemingly inexhaustible corps of terror bombers struck across the country again; from a restaurant in Baghdad's Sadr City, to a police station leveled by a blast near the Syrian... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Death , Toll
Bush's War Czar Questioned Troop Surge
2007-06-07 19:02:00 Top Democrat, Carl Levin, said on Thursday that the three-star general picked by President Bush to become his personal war adviser and oversee the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan suggested that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: War Czar , Surge , Urge
Iraq On Brink Of Another Possible War
2007-06-07 18:39:00 The last thing that the war-torn country of Iraq needs right now is an additional war, but that may be what it's about to get. Turkish security officials said that early yesterday, hundreds of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Ossi
Suicide Bomb Kills 15 In Iraq
2007-06-06 20:02:00 A local police source said that a suicide car bomb went off at a busy market in a town near the restive city of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 20 others. A... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Iraq , Suicide , Bomb , Kill , Cide
McCaul And Republicans Support Iraq Bill
2007-06-06 19:34:00 United States Republica n Michael McCaul one of 45 members of Congress cosponsoring legislation to implement recommendations from a special commission studying the war in Iraq . On Tuesday the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Republicans , Support , Bill
McCain & Brownback Never Read Iraq Report
More articles from this author:2007-06-06 19:11:00 Senators John McCain and Sam Brownback both admitted that they voted to authorize the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq without first reading the formal National Intelligence Estimate in advance.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Report , Read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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