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The Defense secretary says the new U.S.-Iraq security agreement changes the conversation from debating a timeline for withdrawal to figuring out how to reduce troops responsibly.
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340 sailors and Coast Guardsmen deploy from North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado to take over security duties for two Iraqi oil platforms. >>
Bombings Tuesday killed 14 Iraqis, including a child hit by a blast outside his primary school in the northern city of Mosul, police said. >>
The Shiite cleric was once key to keeping Nouri Maliki in power but could use his supporters' street credibility against the prime minister. Now his political future is in doubt. >>
The twin bombings are among several attacks across Iraq that leave as many as 36 dead, including two attackers. >>
One American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a significant drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to its campaign against insurgent leaders, operations by Afghan and Pakistani forces and the onset of winter. >>
In an interview with Charles Gibson, the president is unusually blunt about shortcomings on the Iraq war and praises his HIV/AIDs initiative as a success. >>
Positions of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq are reported to be under attack. >>
The remains of 150 found in southern Iraq are met at the airport in Irbil. There is a ceremony, but also disappointment for many. >>
Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll mounts / Romania: Leftists appear to win vote / Switzerland: Voters make heroin program permanent / Mideast: Iran, Iraq swap troops' remains / Nigeria: Violence quelled >>
A bomb attached to the vehicle used by an NPR correspondent and three Iraqi colleagues explodes. But a warning from Iraqi soldiers helps all escape harm. >>
The strike near the local U.N. headquarters may reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact. An earlier rocket hit the U.S. military compound Camp Victory. >>
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq: >>
Bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 15 people Tuesday in an increase in bloodshed in the Iraqi capital after a week of relative calm, police and hospital officials said. >>
COLUMN ONE
Their husbands, both in the National Guard, died together in what prosecutors say was an attack by Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez. The women have found some comfort in their shared anguish. >>
California is the top state for resettlement. Among those fleeing the violence is a prosperous family that had to leave many possessions behind and is struggling to make a new life in Los Angeles. >>
DISPATCH FROM THE ARAR CROSSING
A key part of the U.S. military's exit strategy in Anbar is to get the provincial government in Ramadi and the national government in Baghdad to reconcile. >>
Cuba: Medvedev visits Fidel Castro / Iraq: Suicide bomber kills at least 12 / China: Wo Weihan is executed >>
The vote is a major step toward ending the American military presence. The presidency council is expected to ratify the accord. >>
The 'malware' strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the U.S. Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack underscores concerns about computer warfare. >>
A San Fernando Valley group sews and donates quilts to those who recently served in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. >>
Eradication effort, along with drought and a global food shortage that boosted the price of wheat, cut production of the crop, which is used to make heroin. >>
Lawmakers say a popular vote on the pact governing U.S. forces will take place next year. The addition to the accord has been a key Sunni Arab demand. >>
Iraq: Would-be female suicide bombers surrender, U.S. says / Afghanistan: Suicide car bomber kills 4 / China: Toy workers protest over pay / Congo: 2 mass graves are found / And finally . . . : QE2 ch >>
Sunnis want concerns, including political reforms and amnesty for prisoners, addressed before lending support to a deal on the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq. >>
Officials say the assailants are Taliban militants opposed to the education of girls. Eleven students and four adults were burned. >>
A Marine and a soldier handing out blankets in northern Iraq are shot down by a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform. >>
The U.S. said Nader Qorbani, who was detained last week, was an arms smuggler. Iran says he did restoration work at religious sites. Now he has been freed, and answers are hard to come by. >>
A female suicide bomber Monday killed seven people waiting to enter the capital's U.S.-guarded Green Zone, and another bomb killed at least 13 people when it destroyed a minibus carrying Trade Ministry employees, Iraqi authorities said. >>
A security deal expected this week would bring glory, and more power, to Prime Minister Nouri Maliki as the man who brought an end to the U.S. troop presence. >>
Top officers have met repeatedly to consider deploying 15,000 Marines to join the 30,000 U.S. troops already there to fight the Taliban and other insurgents. >>
Thailand: Protest delays parliament session / Cuba: Russia may search for oil off island / Israel: Jewish teens jailed for neo-Nazi attacks / Europe: Michael Jackson settles with sheik >>
Editorial
Opposition to the war in Iraq should not be a condition for joining Barack Obama's administration. >>
Normally the fighting slows when the harsh weather sets in, but this year it is likely to be different. >>
Q & A
Moscow and Washington have made the same mistakes in their conflicts there, says Ruslan Aushev. He offers advice for the U.S. as it enters the eighth year of war. >>
War casualtiesTOTAL U.S. DEATHS** In and around Iraq: 4,203 * In and around Afghanistan: 557 * Other locations: 66 >>The 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division -- the Two-Seven -- never expected to deploy to Afghanistan, much less see heavy combat. >>
The crowd of tens of thousands, gathered in Baghdad where a Saddam Hussein statue once stood, protests a security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq through 2011. >>
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that he would like to send more American forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of the 7-year-old war are "far too pessimistic." >>
The Al Qaeda in Iraq leader was accused in the death of Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin, who was captured in 2004. >>
Activists note that most of the candidates for top security posts voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq or otherwise supported launching the war. >>
Legislators' squabbling could hinder quick passage of security plan extending the American troop presence. >>
The missile attack is the first allied assault beyond the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. The Pakistani government denounces it as another 'great provocation.' >>
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War deaths
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