AP - The U.S. Embassy on Sunday criticized a Senate resolution that could lead to a division of the country into sectarian or ethnic territories, agreeing with a swath of Iraqi leaders in saying the proposal “would produce extraordinary suffering and bloodshed.”
AP - Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is troubled by the Iraq war. He thinks it has become such a consuming focus of U.S. attention that it may be overstretching the military and distracting the nation from other threats.
Reuters - Violence in Iraq during Ramadan has
fallen by almost 40 percent from last year, the U.S. military
said on Sunday, despite a warning from al Qaeda that it would
increase attacks during the Muslim holy month.
AFP - US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 71 on Sunday, but the toll remained the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
Reuters - "Two days left, one day left, she's
been counting the days," said Hiro's mother as she took her
six-year-old youngest daughter to school for the first time.
AFP - The US military in Iraq said Sunday it had seized sophisticated Iranian-made surface-to-air missiles that were being used by insurgents in the war-torn country.
AFP - Schools across Iraq reopened early after the summer break on Sunday, drawing a trickle of pupils, after the education ministry decided not to wait until the end of Ramadan to resume classes.
Reuters - Iraqi army forces killed 40 militants
during operations in three northern Iraqi provinces in the last
24 hours, a Defense Ministry statement said on Sunday.
AP - Iraq’s foreign minister says Iran is punishing the Kurdish region for something the Kurdish authorities were not responsible for — the arrest of an Iranian official by the U.S. military on Sept. 20.
AFP - Gunmen in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul sprayed the car of a Sunni politician with bullets on Sunday, killing him and three bodyguards, police said.