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A road mine blasted a bus carrying a wedding party in southern Afghanistan today, killing 10 civilians, a police official said.
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Iraq lawmakers break for vacation, unable to agree on oil-rich Kirkuk, which the Kurds want to annex to the semiautonomous Kurdish region. >>
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A year after Cpl. Garrett Jones lost his left leg to a bomb in Iraq, he has rejoined his unit in Afghanistan. Improved medical care and prostheses -- and his determination -- made it possible. >>
The Bush administration and former top CIA officials denounced a new book's assertion that the White House ordered the forgery of Iraqi documents to suggest a link between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the lead hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks. >>
Gunmen killed a senior leader of a U.S.-allied Sunni Muslim group and six of his guards in an ambush south of Baghdad, a group member and residents said Tuesday. >>
COLUMN ONE
A former Marine fights nightmares of Iraq by struggling to stay awake. Millions, veteran and civilian, face a nightly battle. >>
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani mother of three who studied at MIT, is said to have moved in the terrorist group's inner circles. She faces charges of firing at U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. >>
A stalemate continues in Iraq's parliament over legislation that would allow provincial elections this year. >>
Despite a meeting of senior officials seeking a compromise on Kirkuk, members of parliament fail to muster a quorum for the emergency session. Iraqi officials vow to try again today. >>
Proposals include sending a commando unit against insurgents near the Afghanistan border, officials say. >>
CHINA
Critics see Olympic flip-flop >>
Two U.S. soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder in the shooting of an Iraqi detainee north of Baghdad, the military said Saturday. >>
Officials deny any role in the Indian Embassy attack in Afghanistan but acknowledge that some operatives 'act on their own' and they need to be weeded out. >>
Tensions are high in the disputed northern city, which Kurdish provincial council members want declared part of Iraqi Kurdistan. >>
President Bush is expected to sign the Hubbard Act, named for a California family that lost two of three sons in Iraq. The survivor, Jason, had been denied his benefits after being granted discharge. >>
A United States-Iraq security pact would set a goal -- but no timetable -- for the American units to leave, Iraqi officials say. >>
Downey Savings in Hemet put a hold on two government checks that the parents of Marc Retmier sought to use for funeral expenses. The bank stands by its policy, and a federal official says facts in the >>
Officials believe members of the powerful ISI spy agency aided in the attack on India's mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. >>
Repeating Pentagon announcements about reductions in troop numbers and in the length of tours, the president says the moves are a 'return on success.' >>
On the second day of a campaign to clear militants from Diyala province, the mostly Sunni city isn't sure it can trust the Shiite force. So far, though, the officers are all business. >>
The move comes after lawmakers' summer term ends without passage of the measure to hold provincial balloting this year. >>
The International Rowing Federation announced Wednesday that Iraq's men's rowing double can participate in the Beijing Summer Olympics after all. >>
COLUMN ONE
A friendship has taken hold between U.S. veterans of an unpopular war that ended 33 years ago and newly battle-honed soldiers from a similarly controversial conflict. >>
The operation, aimed at militias and Al Qaeda in Iraq, aims to show the military's increasing independence from U.S. forces. >>
With burgeoning oil income and unspent money from previous budgets, the war-torn nation can meet its own needs, the special inspector general says. >>
The general is being called back before the Senate Armed Services Committee to focus on testimony he gave after the 2003 invasion. >>
The reversal comes after Baghdad pledges to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel. >>
U.S. officials have long sought more action from Islamabad on the troubled region, a haven for militants. But many worry the military isn't prepared for counter-terrorism work. >>
The attacks in Iraq's capital target Shiite pilgrims gathered for a religious holiday. In the north, a Kurdish rally is hit. >>
IRAQ
A U.S. government audit says the engineering firm received $142 million for facilities in the country, including Khan Bani Saad, that were never completed. >>
World Briefing
Cambodia and Thailand agreed to pull back about 1,200 troops stationed near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, a symbolic gesture that fell short of ending a border dispute there. >>
As the last troops sent in a U.S. military buildup leave, security has improved, but Iraqis tread carefully. They know no victor has been declared in the battles that will decide the nation's future. >>
DUST-UP
David B. Rivkin says all signs point to a dramatic turnaround for U.S. forces. Joseph Cirincione says the war has been among the greatest disasters in U.S. history. >>
CAMPAIGN '08
But it's not just due to the increase in U.S. troops, he says. Meanwhile, McCain backs away from comments about a 16-month military withdrawal plan. >>
The military had said the victims in last month's incident at a Baghdad airport compound were criminals who had opened fire from their car. Meanwhile, three female suicide bombers kill 20 in Baghdad. >>
World Briefing
Missile strike near Afghan border kills 6 >>
The U.S. government paid Parsons Corp., a Pasadena-based contractor, $142 million to build prisons, fire stations and police facilities in Iraq that it never built or finished, according to audits by a watchdog office. >>
More than 100 attacked a government center in Khowst province near the border with Pakistan, authorities say. Violence is up in the eastern region as militancy increases. >>
Now that the dream can easily become reality, he's not so sure it's a good idea. >>
DISPATCH FROM BAGHDAD
Now that the dream can easily become reality, he's not so sure it's a good idea. >>
The Inter-Services Intelligence agency recently was accused of being behind an attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai. >>
CAMPAIGN '08
He says his rival is guilty of an 'audacity of hopelessness' in opposing last year's troop buildup. >>
The prime ministers, on a European trip, also invites Benedict XVI to visit Iraq. >>
The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it. >>
ENTERTAINMENT
Away from the war zone, an ethnic minority seeks guidance on creating a film industry. >>
His rhetoric is sweeping. McCain's campaign calls the event presumptuous. >>
COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING
The International Olympic Committee says the seven-member team cannot compete next month because the Iraqi government replaced the country's Olympic panel with a new body. >>
Bush's latest unilateral move in Iraq would imperil troops and hamper his successor. >>
Germans express optimism as he addresses the war in Iraq, torture and other issues important to Europeans. >>
A woman blew herself up Thursday near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqubah, killing at least eight members of the Awakening movement and wounding 24 people, police said. >>
President Talabani objects to a provision delaying voting in Kirkuk, the northern city that Kurds seek to incorporate into their semiautonomous Kurdish region. >>
Though a team that retrieves and processes remains is glad to have much less to do these days, its members work to stay ready. >>
After visits to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Democratic presidential candidate plans to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. >>
The lawmakers object to a secret vote on conditions for provincial elections calling for sharing power in Kirkuk. The move reduces chances of holding those elections this year. >>
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CAMPAIGN '08
The announcement bolsters the Democratic candidate in the early days of his Middle East trip. Meanwhile, John McCain visits with President George H.W. Bush in Maine. >>
Ordinary citizens appear skeptical that the differences between the U.S. presidential candidates have anything to do with them. >>
RED PEN, SILVER LINING
The essay, about Iraq, was supposed to counter one by Obama. >>
Blackwater Worldwide said Monday that it planned to shift away from the security contracting business that earned it millions of dollars and made it a flash point in the debate over the use of private security companies in war zones. >>
He meets with Karzai in Afghanistan and calls for diverting U.S. troops in Iraq to the Central Asian nation, which he says is the main front in the fight against terrorism. >>
The former Nestle nutritionist started a nonprofit that gives free seed to thousands of farmers and offers to pay for the harvest. >>
The Adhamiya Sports Club was nearly destroyed in Baghdad's sectarian violence, but now youngsters are coming off the streets to train. >>
The Democratic candidate meets military planners and troops in Afghanistan on a tour aimed at raising his foreign policy profile. >>
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