AP - As major U.S. combat operations in Iraq end, some families of soldiers and Marines convicted of crimes during battle hope the nation doesn't forget their sons.

[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:35:33 GMT]
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AP - A powerful Iranian-backed Shiite bloc put forward its own candidate for prime minister Friday, further complicating Iraq's fractured political scene as the country stumbled into month six without a new government.

[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:44:32 GMT]
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AFP - The UN refugee agency on Friday urged European countries not to send Iraqi refugees back to central parts of Iraq, just days after the official withdrawal of US combat troops.

[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:33:58 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - At a police outpost in the middle of Baghdad, the latest theft they’re investigating is someone in the neighborhood stealing electricity – from the police station.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:21:50 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - The shrinking US military footprint here is particularly evident in this community south of Baghdad, where a few dozen American soldiers live among 1,000 Iraqi troops in an area crucial to Baghdad's security.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:25:00 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - Tony Blair began his leadership as a dashing popular British Bill Clinton -- a fresh answer to “the suit,” as Fleet Street called John Major. After 2001, it all went sideways and Mr. Blair’s 10-year tenure terminated with him portrayed at home as a “lap dog” for President George Bush.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:10:00 GMT]
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AFP - Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011.

[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:48:23 GMT]
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Time.com - President Obama's Oval Office address indicated that the Iraq withdrawal would lead to more forces for Afghanistan. But Afghans only see an eventual withdrawal from their own troubled country
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:30:00 GMT]
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Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden, in Baghdad to mark the end of U.S. combat operations, said on Wednesday he believed Iraq's political stalemate was nearly over and officials would form a government in "the next couple of months."
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:17:46 GMT]
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Reuters - The Commerce Department said on Wednesday it will lead 15 U.S. companies, including Boeing, General Electric and Wamar International, on a trade mission in October to help rebuild Iraq.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:43:33 GMT]
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The Christian Science Monitor - The United States marked the official end of its combat role in the seven-year Iraq war today, acknowledging the immense sacrifices of a war that has divided Americans as well as Iraqis and pledging to help the country move forward.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:40:20 GMT]
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Time.com - Analysis: Even as the U.S. remains the supreme military power in Iraq, Iran has more influence over Iraqi politics
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:30:00 GMT]
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McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The U.S. military Wednesday marked the end of its combat mission in Iraq amid a series of conflicting messages that underscored the mixed feelings many here, both American and Iraqi, have toward a seven-and-a-half-year effort that cost tens of thousands of lives but left the political outcome undecided.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:22:00 GMT]
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AFP - Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 US troops.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:32:23 GMT]
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Reuters - U.S. forces are in the final phase of the Iraq war after ending combat missions, officials said on Wednesday as they urged Iraqi leaders to get on with forming a government six months after an election.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:19:17 GMT]
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AFP - Tony Blair does not regret the Iraq war despite the "nightmare" it unleashed, but he feels "desperately sorry" for those who died, the former British prime minister says in memoirs published on Wednesday.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:45:15 GMT]
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AFP - Iraq is "close" to forming a new government nearly six months after elections, US Vice President Joe Biden told CBS on Wednesday during a visit to the country.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:27:02 GMT]
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AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that history will judge whether the war in Iraq was worth it.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:26:39 GMT]
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AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that American forces had begun a new mission in Iraq, a day after the US combat role in the war-torn country officially came to an end.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:20:16 GMT]
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AP - Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.

[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:49:42 GMT]
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