Iraq
Iraq presidency approves local council quota for minorities (AFP)
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. ...US combat troops in Iraq battle to defend savings (AFP)
AFP - US Lieutenant Colonel Mark Grabski has been busy on the computer over the past few weeks -- not to follow the history-making presidential ...Bush pledges to work for smooth transition (AP)
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 ...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 ...Five Iraqis killed in suicide attack (AFP)
AFP - Five civilians were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint near the western Iraqi town of ...Senior Al-Qaeda member killed in Iraq: US (AFP)
AFP - US and Iraqi forces killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader allegedly responsible for organising car bombs and suicide attacks in a firefight outside Baghdad, ...Iraq deputy PM says Iraqis still need US (AP)
AP - Iraq's deputy prime minister says Iraqis still need the U.S. military and time is running out for approving a security agreement with the ...US says al-Qaida regional leader killed (AP)
AP - The U.S. military says U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader in the Tarmiyah area north of Baghdad. ...Insurgents to Obama: Pull troops from Iraq (AP)
AP - Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on President-elect Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and abandon the war on terror, an Internet ...






