The U.S. military says it has killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader suspected of masterminding deadly bombings in Baghdad.
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Iraq passes province election law
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The Iraqi parliament has passed a law which paves the way for provincial elections, reports say.
Read more »Iraq strikes gas deal with Shell
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Iraq has agreed to set up a joint venture with oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell to invest in developing the country's natural gas supply.
Read more »Odierno warning on Iraq security
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The new US military commander in Iraq, Lt Gen Ray Odierno, has said that recent security gains there are "fragile and reversible".
Read more »Bush keeping Iraq US troop levels steady
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President George W. Bush announced yesterday that he will keep the US force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a bigger boost of troops in troubled Afghanistan.
Read more »U.S. spied on Iraqi leaders
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The Bush administration has conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his staff and others in the Iraqi government, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.
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Read more »Iraq bomb kills police recruits
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At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi province of Diyala, police say.
Read more »Jordan's King Visits Iraq, Urges Arabs to Support
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Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks Monday with Iraq's prime minister after coming to Baghdad on an unannounced visit, the first by an Arab head of state since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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Iraq still leans on government for jobs
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A vital part of Iraq's economy, private sector jobs not related to oil, has failed to make a comeback since the 2003 invasion, a government source said.
"For all the talk about the private sector taking off in Iraq, it didn't materialize," Haider al-Abbadi, a parliamentary economic committee member, told The New York Times. (NYSE:NYT)
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Pentagon using more troops for combat
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The U.S. Department of Defense revealed it's sending a bigger percentage of its troops into combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some 57 percent of active-duty soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors were deployed to the combat zones in June, compared with 50 percent of the Pentagon's troops in June 2006, USA Today reported Monday.
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