AP - The French foreign minister arrived Saturday in the southern city of Nasiriyah for his second visit to Iraq in less than a year as Paris seeks to rebuild ties with the war-torn nation.
AP - The U.S. military says a Marine has died in a non-combat related incident in Iraq.
AFP - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Iraq on Saturday on an unannounced visit to underline the “renewed political commitment of France” to the war-ravaged nation, diplomats said.
AP - Air raids two days ago destroyed 16 Kurdish rebel facilities in northern Iraq, Turkey’s military said Saturday.
AFP - Hillary Clinton Saturday makes a last stand in her ebbing White House bid, as the Democratic Party tries to defuse a unity-sapping row over voided primary votes in Michigan and Florida.
AP - Plans for provincial elections in Iraq by the fall have already set Sunni Arabs against each other as factions prepare to compete for control of the local governments that will wield considerable power over security and finances.
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number
of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the
two likely presidential nominees over the unpopular war.
AP - Republican John McCain’s estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off squabbling with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, the latest turn in the presidential rivals’ escalating disagreement over the war.
AP - As of Friday, May 30, 2008, at least 4,085 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— Violence against civilians and U.S. and Iraqi military forces dropped to some of the lowest levels of the war in May even as Iraqi troops are leading offensives in three major cities.