Worries About A Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move To Fore in Iraq (Washington Post)
QARAQOSH, Iraq — Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen — in baseball caps and jeans, wielding Kalashnikov rifles, with the safeties switched off. They answer to someone else. Leaders of his police force give their loyalty to…
Worries Rise Of A Kudish-Arab Conflict In Iraq (Free Internet Press)
Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen – in baseball caps and jeans, wielding Kalashnikov rifles, with the safeties switched off. They answer to someone else.
Violence mounts in Iraqi flashpoints – Summary (EARTHtimes.org)
Baghdad – Violence mounted in two of Iraq’s most tense cities on Monday, with a series of bomb and gun attacks in Mosul and Falluja, security sources reported. In the northern city of Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, three Iraqi soldiers …
Incumbents ahead in Iraq Kurd vote (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Powerful Kurdish ruling parties appeared to fend off a surprisingly strong opposition challenge in weekend elections in Iraqi Kurdistan, locked in a bitter feud with Baghdad authorities over land and oil.
Suicide bomber strikes in Iraq; 2 killed (Central Chronicle)
Agencies Fallujah, July 27: Two people have been killed and 10 others injured outside Fallujah when a suicide bomber struck a family mourning the death of a relative, police said.
Iraq, NATO sign training measure (UPI)
BAGHDAD, July 27 (UPI) — NATO officials signed a bilateral accord with the government of Iraq to provide training to members of the Iraqi national security force.
Al-Maliki says Iraqi officer was wrong and ‘out of line’ to order US troops detained (The Washington DC Examiner)
WASHINGTON The prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, says an Iraqi officer was wrong to order American soldiers detained after they killed three Iraqis while going after insurgents.
2 people killed in Iraq bombings targeting police in Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul (Kitchener – Waterloo Record)
BAGHDAD – Two people were killed Monday in bombings across Iraq targeting police officers, considered the weakest link among the Iraqi security forces that have taken the lead from withdrawing American forces.
Iraqi Kurd opposition claims fraud in weekend polls (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – The Iraqi Kurdish opposition accused the party of regional president Massud Barzani on Monday of vote rigging in weekend elections, insisting it had made a bigger breakthrough than preliminary results showed.
