AP - Iraqi leaders are hoping to pressure Iran to stop aiding militias in Iraq by presenting Tehran with the latest evidence of weapons and training crossing the border, a senior defense official said Wednesday.
AFP - US Republicans on Wednesday slammed a Democratic Party campaign ad they said misrepresents the views of their presumed presidential candidate John McCain on US troops in Iraq.
AFP - Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad’s Sadr City, an Iraqi official said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to keep up the offensive.
Time.com - Hundreds flee the Baghdad neighborhood as U.S. and Iraqi forces confront the Mahdi Army in an urban stronghold
Reuters - The death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq
reached a seven-month high in April, with the reported deaths
of three more soldiers on Wednesday bringing the monthly total
to 47, the highest since last September.
AP - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September, the military said Wednesday.
AFP - Controversial French lawyer Jacques Verges is ready to defend Iraq’s former deputy premier Tareq Aziz, currently on trial on charges of executing 42 Baghdad businessmen in 1992, his lawyer said Wednesday.
AFP - Insurgents killed two US soldiers in Baghdad in separate attacks of small arms fire and a bomb blast, the American military said Wednesday.
AFP - A blinding dust storm hit Baghdad for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, forcing pedestrians to stay indoors and bringing road and air traffic to a halt, officials said.
AP - White House officials this week privately cautioned lawmakers not to go too far in restricting U.S. aid to Iraq, warning that doing so might only prolong the war, now in its sixth year.