AFP - Turkish forces pulled out from northern Iraq Friday, ending a week-long offensive against Kurdish rebels that the United States feared could fuel a broader conflict in the region.
AP - Truckloads of weary and unshaven Turkish troops returned Friday from Iraq as Turkey ended an eight-day cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels, meeting U.S. demands for a quick campaign.
AFP - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop was kidnapped by gunmen in Iraq’s restive northern city of Mosul on Friday after a shootout that killed his three companions, a local Iraqi army commander said.
Reuters - Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean
Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi
city and killed his driver and two guards, police said.
Reuters - Turkey pulled its troops out of northern
Iraq on Friday, ending a major offensive against Kurdish PKK
rebels that Washington had feared might destabilize the wider
region.
AP - No, John McCain is not proposing a 100-year war in Iraq.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD _Turkey announced Friday that its army units had withdrawn from northern Iraq after a week of shelling and ground battles with Kurdish rebels in Iraq’s Qandil Mountains.
AP - Turkey’s military said Friday it has ended a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq, but said that foreign influence did not play a role in its decision.
AP - Iraq’s presidential council has endorsed the execution within a month of Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali,” for his role in the 1980s scorched-earth campaign against Kurds, officials said Friday. But it spared the life of two other officials amid Sunni protests that they were only following orders.
AFP - The families of five Britons held captive in Iraq appealed for their release Friday, urging those holding them to show their “true humanity.”