AFP - The commander of US forces in Iraq has predicted it would take "a couple of months" for leaders to form a post-election government but downplayed fears of instability.

[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:16:30 GMT]
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AFP - The commander of US troops in Iraq on Tuesday praised Oscar-winning drama "The Hurt Locker," saying that unlike some media coverage it showed the complexities on the field.

[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:20:24 GMT]
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AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:28 GMT]
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AP - As of Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at least 4,382 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:27 GMT]
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AP - Britain opened an inquiry Tuesday into claims that its soldiers murdered and abused civilians in southern Iraq in 2004, some of the most serious allegations made against British forces over the war and occupation of the country.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:44:47 GMT]
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AP - Iraq's election commission says ballots are still being counted in the historic parliamentary elections and backed off from an expected announcement of partial results.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:10 GMT]
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AFP - Iraq awaited initial results Tuesday from polls touted as a test of its young democracy, with Baghdad holding the key as the prime minister's list and its top secular rival jockeyed for pole position.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:46:11 GMT]
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Reuters - Preliminary results from Iraq's parliamentary election will be released on Wednesday, an electoral commission official said on Tuesday.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:28 GMT]
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AP - American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people understood what they did.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:02:04 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - The Iraq election has shored up the country’s fragile democracy, but the months ahead are fraught with potential dangers far more worrying than the bombs that echoed through Baghdad as voters went to the polls over the weekend.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:00 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - Expectations of good news have rarely been higher in the poor Iraqi household of Karima Selman Methboub, whose son Ali is due in coming weeks to be released from prison after more than 1-1/2 years.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:40:00 GMT]
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Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:07:20 GMT]
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AFP - The top US general in Iraq said Monday it could be years before the United States can gauge whether its long military campaign there had achieved any measure of success.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:08 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi election workers began tallying votes from 47,000 polling stations across the country Monday, a day after the country pulled off a landmark vote despite dozens of scattered explosions that went off in Baghdad and in other parts of the country.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:00 GMT]
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AFP - Britain's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:16:31 GMT]
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AP - The top U.S. general in Iraq says the Iraqi military performed superbly on Sunday's mostly peaceful election day and that President Barack Obama's plan to remove American combat troops from that country by Sept. 1 is proceeding on schedule.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:26:04 GMT]
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Time.com - The election is over. But the counting -- and the dealing -- could go on for a while
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT]
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AFP - Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:22:41 GMT]
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AP - President Barack Obama praised the Iraqi people for passing "an important milestone" Sunday, when millions turned out for national elections despite insurgent attacks that killed more than 30 people.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:16:59 GMT]
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Reuters - President Barack Obama called Iraq's election an "important milestone" on Sunday despite deadly violence, praising Iraqi security forces and repeating his end-2011 goal for removing all U.S. troops from the country.

[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:11:32 GMT]
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