Kirkuk, Iraq News

The U.S. military says a teenage boy killed by American gunfire yesterday in Iraq was the son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper.

Iraq's political party leaders are being asked to study objections to a draft provincial elections law and offer proposals within 48 hours.

Iraq's presidential council on Wednesday rejected a draft provincial elections law and sent it back to parliament for reworking _ a major blow to U.S. hopes that the vote can be held this year.

The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle a day earlier in the northern Iraqi city of ...

KIRKUK: The son of a journalist at a popular weekly newspaper in northern Iraq was allegedly shot dead by US troops when his car appeared to veer wildly, local police said on Thursday.

Gunmen killed three guards from a U.S.-allied Sunni group Thursday in drive-by shootings in northern Baghdad, an official said.

Iraqi army troops headed Wednesday into Diyala, one of Iraq's last remaining restive provinces, in preparation for the next major government offensive, as Iraqi president Jalal Talabani vetoed a long-awaited ...

The Iraqi parliament approved a bill Tuesday that calls for crucial provincial elections on Oct.

Gunmen have shot dead an Iraqi journalist in a Kurdish neighbourhood of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, the city police chief Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said on Tuesday.

Iraq's parliament passed a law Tuesday meant to pave the way for provincial elections despite a Kurdish boycott, but critics warned it's unlikely the vote will be held this year as had been expected.

Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Iraqi police say gunmen have killed a Kurdish journalist near the northern city of Kirkuk.

Iraq's Electoral Commission said on Sunday time was running out to hold provincial elections this year because of parliament's delay in passing legislation needed for the poll.

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is popular among Iraqis. In two dozen interviews across the country, many told Reuters a black man would understand their plight.

People cheer as they observe an Iraqi Airways flight that had just landed at a newly-opened airport in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 20, 2008.

Coalition forces detained 15 suspected terrorists, including an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq leader , during operations around Iraq today targeting bombing cells and foreign-terrorist facilitators.

A voice purported to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri said 2008 "will be the final and decisive year for the American presence" * Political tensions: An attempt to push through legislation needed to hold Iraq's ...

By Dean Yates and Khalid al-Ansary

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis want the U.S. military presence to end. But when that occurs -- and whether a timetable should be set for troops to leave -- is something ordinary Iraqis, security officials and politicians cannot agree on.

The differing views of two dozen people interviewed across the country reflect the dramatic changes in the past few months in Iraq, where violence is at a four-year low.

Iraqi security forces, with U.S. military backing, have cracked down on Shi'ite and Sunni Arab militants in several large-scale operations across the country.

Iraq's vast oil reserves have been opened to foreign investment for the fist time since 1972.

Kurdish lawmakers objected to an attached proposal that would establish a provincial council in Kirkuk [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] to include equal numbers of Kurdish, Arabs and Turkmeni representatives.

Iraq's Kurdish leaders blocked a vote on the country's proposed provincial election law Tuesday when they walked out of parliament, leaving the legislature without a quorum.