AP - As of Friday, June 29, 2007, at least 3,576 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,934 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
AFP - British police defused two car bombs Friday which could have caused carnage in London's entertainment district and which counter-terrorism experts said resembled those used in Iraq.
AFP - Anti-war Democrats fine-tuned a new line of attack over Iraq Friday, hoping to exploit President George W. Bush's political woes with a fresh call for troop withdrawal timetables.
AFP - Four years after the US-led invasion of Iraq failed to turn up Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Security Council Friday shut down a UN program that monitored such arms, closing "an appalling chapter in Iraq's history".
Reuters - As the United Nations officially
disbanded its weapons inspections unit for Iraq on Friday, the
United States again defended faulty intelligence it had cited
to justify its 2003 invasion of the country.
Reuters - Democratic leaders vowed Friday to
keep up the pressure on President George W. Bush to end the
Iraq war with more votes next month on withdrawing U.S. troops.
Reuters - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on
Friday it was suspending its participation in cabinet because
of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers,
deepening the sectarian gulf between the country's politicians.
AFP - Turkey has drawn up plans for an eventual incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Friday.
U.S. News & World Report - Despite rising opposition to the war, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is sticking with President Bush's "surge" strategy of sending a wave of extra troops into Iraq, at least until the fall.
AP - Four Sunni Cabinet ministers will refuse to attend government meetings to protest the way Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki handled legal proceedings against one of their Sunni colleagues, a Sunni politician said Friday.