Iraq, China agree $3 billion oil deal
Associated Press
Iraqis wait in line to buy fuel for use in generators in Youssifiyah, south of Baghdad, Thursday. China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday.
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Pentagon brass meet secretly with Pakistanis
WASHINGTON, 10:01 a.m. Aug. 28 (AP)
With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers conducted a secret strategy session with commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that he came away from the meeting encouraged that Pakistanis are focused on the problem of militants using the country as a safe haven. But he indicated he's not satisfied that Islamabad and Washington are doing the best job they can against the growing threat.
BAQOUBA, Iraq, 12:29 a.m. Aug. 28 (AP)
Iraqi forces starting to lead but need U.S. aid: The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his American advisers, showing them how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaeda militants were believed hiding.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 7:19 a.m. Aug. 28 (AP)
U.S. coalition: 100 militants killed in Afghanistan: A four-day battle that began with an ambush on a joint U.S-Afghan patrol in southern Afghanistan has killed more than 100 militants, the coalition said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, 7:23 a.m. Aug. 27 (REUTERS)
U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis on riverbank: Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD, 12:29 p.m. Aug. 27 (AP)
U.S. military says Baghdad bombing suspect detained: The U.S. military says it has captured a suspected senior Shiite militant believed to be behind a June bombing in Baghdad that killed four Americans and six Iraqis.
WASHINGTON, 8:47 a.m. Aug. 27 (AP)
Fewer Marines needed in Iraq's western province: The U.S. Marine commandant said Wednesday that his forces in Iraq's once-volatile western Anbar province can be reduced, as the military moves to hand over control of the region to the Iraqis next week.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 8:19 a.m. Aug. 26 (AP)
U.N.: Opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan: Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but the country is still far and away the world's leading source of the heroin-producing crop, the U.N. said Tuesday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 6:12 a.m. Aug. 26 (AP)
U.N. accuses U.S.-led troops in deaths of Afghans: The United Nations said Tuesday it has found “convincing evidence” that U.S. coalition troops and Afghan forces killed some 90 civilians, including 60 children, in airstrikes in western Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, 7:26 a.m. Aug. 26 (AP)
Separate bombings kill at least 30 in Iraq: A suicide bomber in a car laden with explosives sped toward a group of police recruits in an Iraqi provincial town on Tuesday, exploding and killing 25 people, police and witnesses said.
BAGHDAD, 8:00 a.m. Aug. 25 (AP)
Iraq demands deadline for pullout of all U.S. troops: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United States could be reached unless it included a “specific deadline” for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 10:42 a.m. Aug. 24 (AP)
Taliban turns lethal: 101 U.S. deaths in Afghanistan in '08: Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force – one advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks and claim American lives at a record pace.
BAGHDAD, 8:09 a.m. Aug. 24 (AP)
Iraq: Shiite cleric killed in shooting ambush: Gunmen in Iraq killed a Shiite cleric and an outspoken critic of sectarian militias in an ambush on a van carrying his wife, mother and sister, police said Sunday.
BAGHDAD, 3:13 a.m. Aug. 23 (AP)
U.S. forces in Iraq release detained APTN cameraman: The U.S. military released a cameraman working for Associated Press Television News without charges on Saturday, after nearly three months in detention.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 8:11 a.m. Aug. 24 (AP)
10 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan clashes: Taliban militants attacked a patrol of U.S.-led coalition troops in northern Afghanistan, while insurgents came under fire by NATO aircraft after attacking an Afghan army outpost in the south. At least 10 militants were killed in the fighting, officials said.
BAGHDAD, 8:10 a.m. Aug. 23 (REUTERS)
VP choice Biden unpopular in Iraq for autonomy plan: Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way.
KABUL, 6:12 a.m. Aug. 23 (REUTERS)
Afghan president condemns civilian killings: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday condemned a U.S.-led coalition air strike his government says killed 76 civilians, most of them women and children.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 3:14 p.m. Aug. 22 (AP)
U.S.: 30 militants killed in west Afghanistan clash: U.S.-led troops attacked a compound where Taliban leaders were meeting and killed 30 militants, American and Afghan military officials said Friday, but the Interior Ministry said a large number of civilians died. The U.S. said it would investigate.
BAGHDAD, 4:11 p.m. Aug. 21 (AP)
U.S., Iraq close in on deal for pullout of U.S. troops: Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cities by next June, with a broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011.
PARIS, 8:12 a.m. Aug. 22 (AP)
French premier proposes vote on Afghanistan troops: France's prime minister has proposed a parliamentary vote on whether to keep French forces in Afghanistan, his office said Friday, as a new poll showed most of his compatriots want the troops pulled out after 10 died in a vicious ambush.
BAGHDAD, 7:19 a.m. Aug. 22 (AP)
Sadrists denounce emerging U.S.-Iraq deal: Several thousand supporters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested Friday against an emerging U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, saying it would turn Iraq into a U.S. colony.
BAGHDAD, 6:32 a.m. Aug. 22 (AP)
Iraqi ex-minister sentenced to death: An Iraqi court has convicted in absentia and sentenced to death a former Sunni culture minister for his role in a 2005 attack on a secular politician that killed the politician's two sons and left him wounded, a judicial spokesman said Friday.
PARIS, 2:31 p.m. Aug. 21 (AP)
French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban: A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight – the deadliest for allied forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 9:23 a.m. Aug. 21 (AP)
30 militants die in Afghan battle near ambush site: The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday it had killed more than 30 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan, fighters an Afghan governor said were responsible for an attack that killed 10 French troops this week. Officials announced the deaths of six NATO soldiers in two attacks.
BAGHDAD, 7:48 a.m. Aug. 21 (REUTERS)
U.S. military frees Reuters cameraman in Iraq: The U.S. military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges.
KABUL, 6:47 a.m. Aug. 21 (REUTERS)
Afghan civilians said killed in U.S.-led air raid: More than a dozen civilians have been killed in an air strike by U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan's eastern province of Laghman, two provincial officials said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD, 12:24 a.m. Aug. 21 (AP)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq says it killed U.S.-allied Sunni: An al-Qaeda in Iraq front organization is claiming responsibility for a suicide attack that killed a U.S.-allied Sunni leader in northern Baghdad on Sunday.
BAGHDAD, 3:18 p.m. Aug. 20 (AP)
Iraq's Sunni politicians angry over arrests: Top Sunni politicians on Wednesday accused Iraq's Shiite-dominated security forces of carrying out political arrests, and warned that this could push Iraq into another round of sectarian fighting.
TEHRAN, 6:33 a.m. Aug. 20 (REUTERS)
Iran hangs man for murder committed when 15: Iran has hanged five people, including a man convicted of a murder he committed when he was 15, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of executions that have drawn international criticism.
BAGHDAD, 4:53 a.m. Aug. 20 (REUTERS)
Turkish troops shell Kurd rebels in N.Iraq – guard: Turkish troops fired a salvo of shells at Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq early on Wednesday, but it was unclear if there were any casualties, an Iraqi border guard said.
BAGHDAD, 4:29 a.m. Aug. 20 (AP)
Iraq to export oil to Lebanon: Iraq and Lebanon plan to sign a series of trade agreements in coming weeks, including one on Iraq exporting oil to Lebanon, the prime ministers of the two countries said Wednesday.
BAGHDAD, 10:51 a.m. Aug. 19 (AP)
Iraqi Sunnis outraged over Diyala raids, arrests: Iraq's largest Sunni party accused government security forces of sectarian bias Tuesday after soldiers arrested a Sunni university president and a Sunni provincial council member northeast of Baghdad.
SUROBI, Afghanistan, 3:19 p.m. Aug. 19 (AP)
Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at U.S. base: Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.
BAGHDAD, 9:00 a.m. Aug. 19 (AP)
Saddam's luxury train to return to service: Iraqi railway officials say Saddam Hussein's personal luxury train will return to service next month.
BAGHDAD, 1:19 a.m. Aug. 18 (AP)
Iraqis bury U.S.-allied Sunni leader after bombing: Mourners fired guns in the air to show their grief Monday at the funeral of a U.S.-allied Sunni leader killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 11:52 a.m. Aug. 18 (AP)
Afghan militant threat shuts down public ceremony: Afghan leaders celebrated Independence Day on Monday with a small ceremony inside a fortified military compound, in marked contrast to the parade and public festivities a year ago and another sign that Taliban militants are bearing down on the government.
WASHINGTON, 10:10 a.m. Aug. 18 (REUTERS)
U.S. says expects militia leaders to return to Iraq: A top U.S. military commander said Monday he expected Shi'ite militia leaders who fled to Iran for training and equipment to return to Iraq soon to try to foment instability.
KHOST, Afghanistan, 7:09 a.m. Aug. 18 (REUTERS)
Taliban suicide bomber kills 10 Afghan civilians: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the gate of the main U.S. military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 10 civilians as the country observed its Independence Day.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 7:00 a.m. Aug. 17 (AP)
7,000 police secure Kabul amid surge in violence: Afghan police commanders on Sunday ordered 7,000 officers onto the capital's streets, including the country's youngest cadets, to secure Kabul ahead of Independence Day celebrations.
TAL AFAR, Iraq, 10:36 a.m. Aug. 17 (AP)
U.S. drawdown raises security fears in Iraqi city: A series of bombings in this small but strategic northwestern Iraqi city is stoking fears of a return to sectarian conflict here and raising questions about a strategy of handing urban security to Iraqi police.
BAGHDAD, 1:24 p.m. Aug. 16 (AP)
Bombers strike Iraq pilgrims for 3rd straight day: Bombers struck Shiite pilgrims Saturday for a third consecutive day, killing at least three people in the latest in a series of attacks apparently aimed at stoking sectarian tension.
KABUL, 7:48 a.m. Aug. 16 (REUTERS)
More than 90 insurgents killed in Afghanistan: Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 90 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week, the U.S. military and the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 6:15 a.m. Aug. 16 (AP)
Worsening security affecting Afghan aid groups: Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said Saturday.
WASHINGTON, 7:35 a.m. Aug. 15 (AP)
U.S.: Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran: Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 5:36 a.m. Aug. 15 (AP)
2 Taliban militants bitten by U.S. coalition dogs: U.S. coalition dogs bit two fleeing suspected Taliban militants during an operation in eastern Afghanistan in which a total of eight insurgents were detained, the coalition said Friday.
GENEVA, 4:56 a.m. Aug. 15 (AP)
IOM: life not improving for tent camp Iraqis: The world's migration body said Friday that daily life has improved little for thousands of Iraqis living in tent camps, despite a slowdown in the number of people in Iraq being uprooted.
4:25 p.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,141: As of Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, at least 4,141 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
BAGHDAD, 4:09 p.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
Bomber targets Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, kills 18: A woman suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores of others after the government announced new measures to protect worshippers ahead of a major religious festival.
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, 7:21 a.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
Iraq's Talabani had heart surgery, politicians say: Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery in a U.S. hospital, two Iraqi Kurdish politicians said Thursday.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, 8:25 a.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
Pentagon official removed from 2nd Gitmo trial: A Pentagon official who oversees war-crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay has been barred for the second time from participating in a case because of alleged interference.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 6:38 a.m. Aug. 14 (AP)
Afghan blast kills 3 in U.S.-led coalition: An explosion targeting international troops on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan killed three members of the U.S.-led coalition Thursday, the coalition said.
KABUL, 6:13 a.m. Aug. 14 (REUTERS)
Aid workers review Afghan security after killings: Foreign humanitarian agencies in Afghanistan have restricted staff movements and said on Thursday they are considering suspending operations in some areas after suspected Taliban insurgents killed three women aid workers.
BAGHDAD, 5:55 a.m. Aug. 14 (REUTERS)
U.S. Navy charges camp guards with prisoner assault: Six sailors working as prison camp guards in Iraq face courts martial for abusing detainees, some of whom were sealed in a cell with riot control gas, the U.S. Navy said on Thursday
PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan, 3:20 p.m. Aug. 13 (AP)
Taliban ambush kills 3 more Western aid workers: Taliban fighters with assault rifles shredded a U.S. aid group's SUV with dozens of bullets Wednesday, killing three Western women and their Afghan driver amid an escalating militant onslaught against humanitarian workers in Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, 2:50 p.m. Aug. 13 (AP)
U.S. oil company says it has ended talks with Iraq: A major independent U.S. oil producer said Wednesday that it has ended negotiations with Iraq to develop an oil field.
BISMARCK, N.D., 12:27 a.m. Aug. 13 (AP)
Soldiers working with Afghan farmers to grow wheat: Army National Guard soldiers from farm states are hoping to fight terrorism and grow Afghanistan's farm economy, one legitimate crop at a time.
BAGHDAD, 5:09 p.m. Aug. 12 (AP)
Governor escapes injury in suicide blast: A female suicide bomber blasted an Iraqi convoy north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by a woman in Diyala province in as many days.
WASHINGTON, 2:07 p.m. Aug. 12 (AP)
Report: Iraq contracts have cost billions: Military contracts in the Iraq theater have cost taxpayers at least $85 billion, and when it comes to providing security, they might not be any cheaper than using military personnel, according to a report released Tuesday.
6:38 p.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan region at 496: As of Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, at least 496 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. EDT.
5:32 p.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,139: As of Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, at least 4,139 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
BAGHDAD, 1:12 p.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
Iraqi leader gives refugees free flight home: Several hundred Iraqi refugees flew home from Egypt on Monday on the Iraqi prime minister's plane, the first government-organized flight aimed at accelerating the return of Iraqis now that violence has waned.
BAGHDAD, 1:35 p.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
Georgian exit leaves vacuum near Iranian border: The departure of 2,000 Georgian soldiers from Iraq leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Iranian border, forcing the U.S. to shuffle units to fill the vacuum.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 2:41 p.m. Aug. 11 (AP)
Kabul bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds NATO soldiers: A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen people, including some soldiers, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents.
4:03 p.m. Aug. 10 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,139: As of Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at least 4,139 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
4:04 p.m. Aug. 10 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan region at 496: As of Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at least 496 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. EDT.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 8:52 a.m. Aug. 10 (AP)
Afghan president urges military action in Pakistan: President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that airstrikes carried out in Afghan villages by U.S. and NATO troops are only killing civilians and that the international community should instead go after terror centers in Pakistan.
BAGHDAD, 6:40 a.m. Aug. 10 (AP)
Iraq to revive oil deal with China: Iraq and China are set to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraq's oil ministry said Sunday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 5:40 a.m. Aug. 9 (AP)
Afghan official says 20 militants killed in west: About 20 Taliban fighters were killed in a battle with Afghan and U.S.-led forces near a key military supply route in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Saturday.
BAGHDAD, 2:21 p.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
Shiite militia to become religious, cultural body: Anti-U.S. Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered most of his militiamen Friday to lay down their arms, and his spokesman said the young cleric might call off all resistance if the Americans accept a timetable to leave Iraq.
WASHINGTON, 10:48 a.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
Gates endorses big expansion of Afghan army: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has endorsed a new five-year, $17 billion plan to increase the size of the Afghan army by about 50,000 troops.
WASHINGTON, 10:18 a.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
U.S. weighs stepped-up military forays into Pakistan: Top Bush administration officials are pressing the president to direct U.S. troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in regional counterterrorism strategy, The Associated Press has learned.
WASHINGTON, 8:26 p.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Gates endorses big expansion of Afghan army: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has endorsed an Afghanistan government proposal to increase the size of the Afghan army by more than 50,000 troops.
BAGHDAD, 7:25 a.m. Aug. 8 (AP)
Iraq resumes oil exploration after long halt: Iraq resumed oil exploration Friday after two decades in an attempt to determine whether more oil reserves lie beneath its territory, an Oil Ministry official said.
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, 7:10 a.m. Aug. 8 (REUTERS)
Security developments in Iraq: Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT on Friday. {PI:84} denotes new or updated item.
BAGHDAD, 3:40 p.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Iraqis: U.S., Iraq close to deal on troop withdrawal: Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. officials, however, insisted no dates had been agreed.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 2:21 p.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
American deaths in Afghanistan war reach 500: The deadliest three months for American forces in Afghanistan have pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 500, forcing a war long overshadowed by Iraq back into the headlines.
BAGHDAD, 8:37 a.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Iraq to upgrade Samawah oil refinery: Iraq's Cabinet has approved a multimillion dollar contract to upgrade an oil refinery in southern Iraq, a senior oil ministry official said Thursday.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, 7:46 a.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Bin Laden driver seeks leniency from Gitmo jury: Salim Hamdan pleaded with a military jury on Thursday to spare him from a life in prison, saying he worked as Osama bin Laden's driver because he needed a job.
BAGHDAD, 7:00 a.m. Aug. 7 (AP)
Iraqi cleric links truce, U.S. withdrawal timetable: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to maintain a cease-fire against American troops but may lift the order if a planned Iraq-U.S. security agreement lacks a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, a spokesman said Thursday.
BAGHDAD, 2:41 p.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
U.S. officials defend Iraq's oil-fed budget surplus: Iraq is paying for more of its own reconstruction but is still struggling to spend its multibillion-dollar surplus as it copes with a flood of oil revenue and a cumbersome approval process meant to curb corruption, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
BAGHDAD, 4:48 p.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
Iraqi election bill falls to ethnic rivalry: Iraqi lawmakers failed Wednesday to agree on a provincial election law and adjourned for the month, casting doubt whether U.S.-backed balloting can be held this year in the country's 18 provinces.
BAGHDAD, 3:21 p.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
U.S. military works to keep out Iraq militia leaders: Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen who fled U.S.-Iraqi operations in Baghdad hope to return, but the U.S. military is confident they won't receive a warm homecoming, officials said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, 3:27 p.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
Roadside bombs now less sophisticated, more vexing: Roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan have gotten less sophisticated and as a result harder for troops to find or avoid, a military official said Wednesday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 8:18 a.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
Afghanistan accusing Pakistan of aiding insurgents: Afghanistan's spy agency alleged Wednesday that a Pakistani consulate official directed and funded terrorist activities carried out by a Taliban commander.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, 7:38 a.m. Aug. 6 (AP)
Military jury convicts bin Laden's driver: A jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay reached a split verdict Wednesday in the war crimes trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others that could send him to prison for life.
WASHINGTON, 7:14 p.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
GAO: Iraq could have $79 billion budget surplus: The Iraqi government could end the year with as much as a $79 billion budget surplus as ever-increasing oil revenues pile on top of leftover income the Iraqis still haven't spent on their national rebuilding effort, congressional auditors say.
FORT BRAGG, N.C., 1:30 p.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Soldier may face murder charge in Afghan death: Army prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to seek a murder charge against a Special Forces soldier accused of killing and mutilating the body of a civilian in southern Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, 7:25 a.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Iraq: Gunmen kill U.S.-allied Sunni group leader: Gunmen killed a senior leader of a U.S.-allied Sunni group and six of his guards in an ambush south of Baghdad, a group member and residents said Tuesday.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, 8:30 a.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Jurors back to deliberate in 1st Gitmo trial: A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden on Tuesday as the U.S. neared completion of its first war crimes trial since World War II.
LONDON, 6:28 a.m. Aug. 5 (AP)
Report: UK troops cut deal and avoided Iraq battle: A secret deal with an Iran-backed militia kept British forces out of a battle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, leaving U.S. and Iraqi forces to fight alone, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Ministry of Defense denied any deal was struck and said it held back to ensure that the operation was seen as Iraqi-led.
6:20 p.m. Aug. 4 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan region at 491: As of Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures July 26 at 10 a.m. EDT.
6:13 p.m. Aug. 4 (AP)
U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,131: As of Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at least 4,131 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
WASHINGTON, 10:17 a.m. Aug. 4 (AP)
Petraeus: More than 80,000 buildings under review: More than 80,000 facilities in Iraq will be inspected for faulty wiring as part of an effort to prevent future accidental electrocutions of U.S. troops, the top commander in Iraq said.
9:08 p.m. Aug. 3 (AP)
Part II: Welcome to Iraq, and a long separation: The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out. “Where are you?” she asked.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 11:27 a.m. Aug. 2 (AP)
Mine hits bus with Afghan wedding party: A road mine blasted a bus carrying a wedding party in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 civilians, a police official said.
BAGHDAD, 9:34 a.m. Aug. 2 (AP)
2 U.S. soldiers charged in Iraqi detainee's death: The U.S. military says two American soldiers have been accused of killing an Iraqi detainee and lying about it.
BAGHDAD, 6:25 a.m. Aug. 2 (AP)
U.S. has freed 10,000 Iraq detainees this year: The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year – more than in all of 2007 – as it continues to try to phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.
BAGHDAD, 1:20 p.m. Aug. 1 (AP)
Iraq suffers from dirty water, fears about cholera: Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked the facility and killed the manager. Looters took care of the rest.
BAGHDAD, 12:50 p.m. Aug. 1 (AP)
Iraq: insurgents linked to U.S. Marine deaths caught: Iraqi troops captured two suspected insurgents linked to a suicide bombing that killed three U.S. Marines and several Sunni sheiks, the military said Friday.
WASHINGTON, 11:36 a.m. Aug. 1 (REUTERS)
Pentagon OKs over $10 billion in arms sales for Iraq: The U.S. Department of Defense approved up to $10.7 billion in arms sales for Iraq over the past week, including a $2.16 billion sale of M1A1 Abrams tanks built by General Dynamics Corp.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 7:05 a.m. Aug. 1 (AP)
NATO says 4 soldiers killed in east Afghanistan: NATO says four soldiers and one civilian have been killed in a roadside blast in eastern Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, 1:11 p.m. July 31 (AP)
U.S. toll in Iraq hits all-time low as month ends: The monthly U.S. toll in Iraq fell to its lowest point since the war began, with at least 10 American deaths as July drew to a close Thursday after the departure of the last surge brigade.
BERLIN, 6:37 a.m. July 31 (AP)
U.S. troops charged in Iraq deaths to face tribunal: Four American soldiers accused of involvement in the slaying of prisoners in Iraq will be brought before a military tribunal in Germany next month, the Army said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, 5:59 a.m. July 31 (AP)
Text of Bush's remarks on progress in Iraq war: Text of President Bush's remarks on the Iraq war Thursday, as provided by the White House:
BAGHDAD, 4:11 a.m. July 30 (AP)
50,000 Iraqi troops in Diyala operation: Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaeda in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, 10:14 a.m. July 30 (AP)
Lawmakers probe electrocutions of soldiers in Iraq: Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed officials from the Pentagon and KBR Inc. to explain what has delayed the proper protection of U.S. forces in Iraq from deficient electrical work already being blamed for the deaths of at least 16 people.
BAGHDAD, 5:17 p.m. July 29 (AP)
'Martyrs' List' tallies Mahdi Army's troubles: Loyalists within Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia network call it the “martyrs' list,” and it's long and growing: At least three dozen senior members killed in slayings or fighting since last summer and nearly 60 others detained.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 2:08 p.m. July 29 (AP)
Olympic panel ends ban, says Iraq can go to games: The International Olympic Committee ruled Tuesday that Iraq could participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel.
BAGHDAD, 7:17 a.m. July 29 (AP)
U.S. troop deaths down in July: U.S. military has reported nine U.S. troop deaths so far in July, a reflection of overall drop in violence around Iraq.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 5:50 a.m. July 29 (AP)
Turkish planes attack rebels in Iraq: The Turkish military says its warplanes attacked Kurdish rebels in Iraq's north. The attacks came two days after bombings in Istanbul killed 17 people. The government blamed Kurdish rebels.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 1:04 a.m. July 29 (AP)
'Several' militants killed in central Afghanistan, U.S. coalition says: U.S.-led coalition troops killed several militants during a raid in central Afghanistan, while a suspected bomb maker and his family died in an accidental blast in the east, officials said Tuesday.
LONDON, 2:09 p.m. July 28 (AP)
UK: No prosecution over journalist death in Iraq: Prosecutors said Monday there was not enough proof to charge anyone in the death of a British journalist in southern Iraq during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion though forensic evidence suggests he was killed by American forces.
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Sergeant was slated for mid-tour visit home: Alejandro A. Dominguez loved the Army so much that he listed “my tank manual” as his favorite book on his MySpace page.
General backs bigger role for Marines in Afghanistan: Gen. James Conway, the nation's top Marine, yesterday renewed his pitch to increase the role of the Marine Corps in Afghanistan – a prospect that some observers see as increasingly likely.
The Iraq Study Group report released Dec. 6, 2006 (PDF).
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