AP - The Iraqi government said Monday it has halted military operations in Diyala province for a week to give insurgents time to surrender, even as deadly bombings struck the area northeast of Baghdad.
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AFP - Six people were killed on Monday in two powerful bombings in the central Iraqi province of Diyala where thousands of Iraqi soldiers are hunting down Al-Qaeda fighters, officials said.
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AFP - It has been more than two years since Ali Salah arrived in Jordan, one refugee among hundreds of thousands who have fled the violence in Iraq.
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AP - A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent $2.8 billion in five years, The Washington Post reported Monday.
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AP - 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.
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AP - 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.
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AFP - Iraq’s oil ministry said Sunday it plans to resurrect a major oil deal with China that fell apart amid crippling United Nations sanctions and the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. should stop paying for
reconstruction projects in Iraq because the Baghdad government
can fund the rebuilding from its sales of crude oil, two U.S.
senators said.
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AFP - Around half of Georgia’s 2,000-strong contingent in Iraq returned home on Sunday to redeploy in the conflict in its breakaway province of South Ossetia, military spokesmen said.
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AP - The U.S. military began flying 2,000 Georgian troops home from Iraq on Sunday, military officials said, after the Georgians recalled the soldiers following the outbreak of fighting with Russia in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
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