AFP - Two civilians were killed and eight others were injured in a bomb explosion on Saturday in a neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, a security forces official told AFP.
AFP - US troops have shot and critically wounded a newly-wed Iraqi female television producer after she failed to heed warnings from soldiers in Baghdad, the military and her station said on Saturday.
Reuters - The U.S. military took a step toward pulling combat troops from Iraqi cities on Saturday, moving out of a Baghdad base that Iraqi officials said would be dismantled and converted back into a shopping mall.
Reuters - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.
AP - Iraq’s prime minister is visiting Iran where the newly implemented security deal between the United States and Baghdad is expected to top his agenda.
Reuters - Iraq’s prime minister, who started a visit to Iran on Saturday, told Iranian state television his government would not allow Iraq to be used as a base to threaten its neighbors.
AFP - American troops suffered the most losses in 2008 since the start of the Afghanistan war due to a resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda, while witnessing the lowest US death toll in six years in Iraq, which saw a relatively improved security.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD Iraq officially began to govern its skies this week, but it has enough trained air traffic controllers only to manage the highest heights above the country.
AP - _October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.
AFP - The first passenger flight from Europe in 18 years landed at Baghdad airport on Friday, when a Swedish charter aircraft touched down.