AP - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.
AP - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his militia after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives.
Reuters - Residents buried their dead after calm
returned to the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, but
fighting broke out in Baghdad despite a truce called by Shi’ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a week of bloodshed.
AP - The parents of Staff Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin had vowed never to let the U.S. Army forget about finding their son.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— The Iranian general who helped broker an end to a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker.
AFP - The remains of a US soldier have been found in Iraq after he went missing nearly four years ago in April 2004 when insurgents attacked his convoy, the American military announced on Monday.
AP - The Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rarely ventures into the public eye. But he’s never far from the minds of Iraq’s leaders as one of the nation’s most influential and wily political survivors.
AP - Republican Sen. John McCain embarked on a carefully crafted tour to introduce himself to a wider election audience on Monday, but quickly veered off script to express surprise at the Iraqi government’s crackdown on Shiite militias.
AFP - Iraqi forces appear to have done “a pretty good job” in an offensive to regain control of Basra from Shiite gangs and militias, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.
Time.com - Sgt. Matt Maupin is heading home, sadly, after nearly four years of a hometown’s unanswered prayers