AFP - US State Department diplomats have criticized new rules that will force some to work in Iraq against their will or risk dismissal, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
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Reuters - When asked about security in
southern Iraq after Britain’s 5,000 troops pull out, British
commanders tend to trot out two words: “Mohan” and “Jalil.”
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Reuters - Turkey said on Thursday planned economic
sanctions against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq would be
targeted at groups providing support for the rebels.
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AP - Turkey’s foreign minister said Thursday that any incursion by Turkish forces into Iraq would target Kurdish guerrilla fighters and would not be an invasion.
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AP - Bombs killed at least 16 people Thursday in attacks across the Iraqi capital and its northern suburbs, but many here are increasingly concerned about the threat of attacks by Turkey against the country’s northern Kurdish areas.
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AFP - At least 554 Iraqis were killed in Iraq in October, ministry data showed Thursday, the lowest death toll since an attack on a shrine in February last year unleashed violence across the nation.
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AFP - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denied that his country had closed its air space to planes bound for northern Iraq as part of economic sanctions over the safe haven Kurdish rebels enjoy in the region.
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AFP - An explosion killed two US soldiers and wounded another two in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, the military said Thursday.
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Reuters - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two
wounded when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in the northern
Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on
Thursday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two fugitives and the former prison guard who may have helped them escape were arrested Wednesday after a short-lived struggle that involved shots fired at the officers, authorities said.
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