Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1473 Iraq en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04:18 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1473 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_corruption ap/20080512/us_iraq_corruption AP Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_corruption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds57.120508213923.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mhj1LJobHHzdCncNp0AE5Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment conduct a joint air assault mission with Iraqi forces in search for weapons caches across agricultural belts in Shakiriyah, south of Baghdad. A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_corruption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds57.120508213923.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mhj1LJobHHzdCncNp0AE5Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment conduct a joint air assault mission with Iraqi forces in search for weapons caches across agricultural belts in Shakiriyah, south of Baghdad. A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/pl_afp/usiraqcongresscorruption afp/20080512/usiraqcongresscorruption AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/pl_afp/usiraqcongresscorruption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds57.120508213923.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mhj1LJobHHzdCncNp0AE5Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment conduct a joint air assault mission with Iraqi forces in search for weapons caches across agricultural belts in Shakiriyah, south of Baghdad. A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/pl_afp/usiraqcongresscorruption"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds57.120508213923.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mhj1LJobHHzdCncNp0AE5Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment conduct a joint air assault mission with Iraqi forces in search for weapons caches across agricultural belts in Shakiriyah, south of Baghdad. A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq ap/20080512/iraq AP Mon, 12 May 2008 19:03:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.c3c18bdcb02442a88f0f976e8f555a23.iraq_sadr_city_bag101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=wRkZEVfLcQSQFFUKMlio0Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A car parts shop owner cleans up after a number of car parts and repair shops burned overnight Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008. According to eyewitnesses market caught fire from anti ground missile flares shot by the US helicopters. Overnight clashes in Sadr City have killed two people and wounded 25, including five children, despite a reported cease-fire in the Iraqi capital's sprawling Shiite slum, Iraqi health officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)" border="0" /></a>AP - Iraq's main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile cease-fire in Baghdad's Sadr City on Monday, hoping to end seven weeks of fighting that has left hundreds dead.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.c3c18bdcb02442a88f0f976e8f555a23.iraq_sadr_city_bag101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=wRkZEVfLcQSQFFUKMlio0Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A car parts shop owner cleans up after a number of car parts and repair shops burned overnight Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008. According to eyewitnesses market caught fire from anti ground missile flares shot by the US helicopters. Overnight clashes in Sadr City have killed two people and wounded 25, including five children, despite a reported cease-fire in the Iraqi capital's sprawling Shiite slum, Iraqi health officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/wl_nm/iraq_dc nm/20080512/iraq_dc Reuters Mon, 12 May 2008 15:55:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/wl_nm/iraq_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t122504_360x450_us_iraq.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=ieismB10wf2xb.wCmZKPRA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="Iraqi soldiers inspect a vehicle that was damaged after a roadside bomb attack, which police said wounded six civilians, near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, May 11, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Iraq's prime minister said on Monday a crackdown on Shi'ite militias proved his government was not sectarian, in the face of persistent accusations by Sunni Arabs that he has favored Shi'ites since taking office.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/wl_nm/iraq_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t122504_360x450_us_iraq.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=ieismB10wf2xb.wCmZKPRA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="photo" title="Iraqi soldiers inspect a vehicle that was damaged after a roadside bomb attack, which police said wounded six civilians, near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, May 11, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity afp/20080512/iraqunrestussadrcity AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 15:27:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndq96.120508172702.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_lx.TN8GfLIPAh1aofTYOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US troops patrol the Iraqi town of Yusufiyah on May 10. Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has given his personal backin to a deal between his militia and the Iraqi government to halt bloodshed in his Baghdad stronghold, even as sporadic fighting there claimed three lives.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gave his personal backing on Monday to a deal between his militia and the Iraqi government to halt bloodshed in his Baghdad stronghold, even as sporadic fighting there claimed three lives.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndq96.120508172702.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_lx.TN8GfLIPAh1aofTYOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US troops patrol the Iraqi town of Yusufiyah on May 10. Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has given his personal backin to a deal between his militia and the Iraqi government to halt bloodshed in his Baghdad stronghold, even as sporadic fighting there claimed three lives.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_iraq_us ap/20080512/iran_iraq_us AP Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:30 GMT AP - Two hard-line newspapers seen as speaking for Iran's clerical establishment called Monday for Iraqis to oppose a strategic framework deal with the United States, Tehran's first public condemnation of the arrangement. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080512/wl_csm/ojam csm/20080512/ojam The Christian Science Monitor Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080512/wl_csm/ojam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080510/2008_05_10t060150_320x450_us_iraq_violence.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=061eBeWKXn3u7pbk_3v5yw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="A barefoot mourner displays a poster of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a funeral for two Mehdi army fighters killed after overnight clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City May 10, 2008. Two hospitals in east Sadr City slum said they had received the bodies of 19 people and treated 116 wounded in clashes in the past 24 hours. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>The Christian Science Monitor - A cease-fire deal to end seven weeks of fighting in Sadr City could provide the clearest test yet of just how much sway the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has over armed militants operating inside his sprawling bastion of support in Baghdad.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080512/wl_csm/ojam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080510/2008_05_10t060150_320x450_us_iraq_violence.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=061eBeWKXn3u7pbk_3v5yw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="A barefoot mourner displays a poster of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a funeral for two Mehdi army fighters killed after overnight clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City May 10, 2008. Two hospitals in east Sadr City slum said they had received the bodies of 19 people and treated 116 wounded in clashes in the past 24 hours. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Christian Science Monitor) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_kurds ap/20080512/turkey_kurds AP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:51:06 GMT AP - Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/britainpoliticsiraqblairpeople afp/20080512/britainpoliticsiraqblairpeople AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 03:17:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/britainpoliticsiraqblairpeople"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndn80.120508051523.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=zrPKb00DF9yeLIFhqhrxPQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="News of a miscarriage suffered by Cherie, seen here, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq(AFP/Farjana Khan Godhuly)" border="0" /></a>AFP - News of a miscarriage suffered by the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq, she said in comments printed in newspapers Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/ts_afp/britainpoliticsiraqblairpeople"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndn80.120508051523.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=zrPKb00DF9yeLIFhqhrxPQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="News of a miscarriage suffered by Cherie, seen here, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq(AFP/Farjana Khan Godhuly)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths ap/20080511/iraq_us_deaths AP Sun, 11 May 2008 23:26:36 GMT AP - As of Sunday, May 11, 2008, at least 4,075 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqcongresspoliticsbudget afp/20080511/usiraqcongresspoliticsbudget AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 19:49:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqcongresspoliticsbudget"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndm42.110508214823.photo00.photo.default-407x512.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=3HfCRiMxnWjiorT6ZXITbg--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="Iraqi Ambassador to the United States Samir Sumaidaie, seen here in April 2008, insisted Sunday his government was doing more to pay its own way as angry Democrats in Congress push to cut US funding for reconstruction.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Iraq's ambassador to the United States insisted Sunday his government was doing more to pay its own way as angry Democrats in Congress push to cut US funding for reconstruction.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqcongresspoliticsbudget"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndm42.110508214823.photo00.photo.default-407x512.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=3HfCRiMxnWjiorT6ZXITbg--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="photo" title="Iraqi Ambassador to the United States Samir Sumaidaie, seen here in April 2008, insisted Sunday his government was doing more to pay its own way as angry Democrats in Congress push to cut US funding for reconstruction.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_contractor_hearing ap/20080511/iraq_contractor_hearing AP Sun, 11 May 2008 15:50:45 GMT AP - The U.S. military on Sunday ordered a court-martial for a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army translator in Iraq — the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080511/wl_time/alsadrwinsanotherround time/20080511/alsadrwinsanotherround Time.com Sun, 11 May 2008 14:35:00 GMT Time.com - U.S. and Iraqi forces spent two months battling al-Sadr's Mahdi Army only to see the cleric standing strong after a hastily arranged cease-fire http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/disabled_veterans ap/20080511/disabled_veterans AP Sun, 11 May 2008 18:18:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/disabled_veterans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080511/capt.be39380197184825b6cb6c0a830f6045.disabled_veterans_wx303.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=GhwHcfzwRhO_dC2wc0mYlA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, wounded soldiers involved in physical therapy wait for President Bush to visit a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Lines of U.S. troops are limping away from the military with damaged bodies and minds, a surging increase in disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total of America's vets from all wars has begun to shrink. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America's vets shrinks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/disabled_veterans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080511/capt.be39380197184825b6cb6c0a830f6045.disabled_veterans_wx303.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=GhwHcfzwRhO_dC2wc0mYlA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, wounded soldiers involved in physical therapy wait for President Bush to visit a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Lines of U.S. troops are limping away from the military with damaged bodies and minds, a surging increase in disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total of America's vets from all wars has begun to shrink. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/ts_nm/turkey_iraq_pkk_dc nm/20080511/turkey_iraq_pkk_dc Reuters Sun, 11 May 2008 13:26:37 GMT Reuters - Turkey's military said on Sunday it launched overnight air and artillery attacks against Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq overnight an insurgent strike on a military base. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusmosul afp/20080511/iraqunrestusmosul AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 10:31:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusmosul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndj87.110508123129.photo00.photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=YxGMtsUTAKAlJAKOK6XnFw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Iraqi forces are seen rolling through the streets of the northern city of Mosul. American troops have killed a woman and a child along with two gunmen near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during a new assault against Al-Qaeda militants, the military has said.(AFP/Mujahid Mohammed)" border="0" /></a>AFP - American troops killed a woman and a child along with two gunmen near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during a new assault against Al-Qaeda militants, the military said on Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusmosul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndj87.110508123129.photo00.photo.default-512x358.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=YxGMtsUTAKAlJAKOK6XnFw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iraqi forces are seen rolling through the streets of the northern city of Mosul. American troops have killed a woman and a child along with two gunmen near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during a new assault against Al-Qaeda militants, the military has said.(AFP/Mujahid Mohammed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_afp/turkeyunrestkurdsiraq afp/20080511/turkeyunrestkurdsiraq AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 10:28:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_afp/turkeyunrestkurdsiraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndj86.110508122752.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=PhXbmrCbKuq54rnOw6WYSg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Turkish soldiers patrol on a mountain on the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak earlier this year. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight in what was the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish army has said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq, killing an unknown number of militants in the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish army said Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_afp/turkeyunrestkurdsiraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndj86.110508122752.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=PhXbmrCbKuq54rnOw6WYSg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Turkish soldiers patrol on a mountain on the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak earlier this year. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight in what was the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish army has said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/iraq_attack_dc nm/20080511/iraq_attack_dc Reuters Sun, 11 May 2008 07:35:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/iraq_attack_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080512/i/r4042448507.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=aKSHZ7PUhfHStMZv0s5hpg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A U.S. officer walks in front of a column of armoured vehicles from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion during a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (IRAQ)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A woman, a child and two gunmen were killed by U.S. forces conducting a military operation targeting al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military said on Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/iraq_attack_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080512/i/r4042448507.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=aKSHZ7PUhfHStMZv0s5hpg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. officer walks in front of a column of armoured vehicles from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion during a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (IRAQ)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_qaida ap/20080511/iraq_al_qaida AP Sun, 11 May 2008 06:20:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_qaida"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.e4be610f67a24e749f32538ca71083a8.aptopix_iraq_violence_bag110.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=cdDOj2hnrQdTiJKAxi6V1w--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="The wife of Jassim Abdul Hussein, right, mourns over his body at a morgue in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Hussein was killed during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City on Friday. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)" border="0" /></a>AP - Four people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in an operation against al-Qaida near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_qaida"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.e4be610f67a24e749f32538ca71083a8.aptopix_iraq_violence_bag110.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=cdDOj2hnrQdTiJKAxi6V1w--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="The wife of Jassim Abdul Hussein, right, mourns over his body at a morgue in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Hussein was killed during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City on Friday. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_casualties ap/20080511/iraq_us_casualties AP Sun, 11 May 2008 05:34:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_casualties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080512/i/r2388774888.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=TO.56sdOsugm5VrSISmpdw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion listen to their commander's briefing before a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. Picture taken through armoured glass. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (IRAQ)" border="0" /></a>AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in a vehicle accident near al-Asad.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_casualties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080512/i/r2388774888.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=TO.56sdOsugm5VrSISmpdw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion listen to their commander's briefing before a patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. Picture taken through armoured glass. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (IRAQ)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)