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While lawmakers on Sunday were approving new elections, Iraqi soldiers patrolled outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Abu al-Khasib near Iraq’s border with Iran. The army was looking for weapons and other contraband such as drugs.
BAGHDAD | After nearly a dozen delays, Iraq’s Parliament on Sunday passed a law setting national elections for January, averting a political crisis that threatened the country’s progress toward stability.
The latest U.S. Defense Department identification of casualties: •Army Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador, 29, of Albany, N.Y., died Nov. 4 in Kirkush, Iraq, of injuries suffered in an incident unrelated to combat.
BAGHDAD | A man being questioned in connection with last week’s deadly double bombings in the Iraqi capital was able to seize a gun and kill an investigative officer before being shot himself, the government said Saturday. The man, who was not identified, snatched a gun from a guard and wounded the guard, then killed the investigative officer during the interrogation in the officer’s Interior Ministry office, the ministry said in a Web site statement.
The latest Department of Defense identifications of casualties: •Marine Lance Cpl. Cody R. Stanley, 21, of Rosanky, Texas, died on foot patrol Oct. 28 when a enemy bomb was triggered in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD | A long-sought political consensus in Iraq over how to conduct crucial upcoming elections fell apart Tuesday over the thorny issue of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi lawmaker said. The new snag came as an al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings Sunday in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people. Many fear the political deadlock over the new law will delay elections, now slated for January, and open the door to renewed violence.
BAGHDAD | Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives killed at least 132 people and wounded more than 500 outside Iraqi government buildings Sunday morning in nearly simultaneous blasts that were powerful even by Baghdad’s grim standards. The bombings were the deadliest since April 2007, according to casualty figures released by Iraqi authorities, and they drew particular outrage because they struck at cabinet ministries and city government offices that are supposed to be especially secure.
The latest Department of Defense identification of casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: •Army Spc. Kyle A. Coumas, 22, of Lockeford, Calif., died Oct. 21 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive.
BAGHDAD | The soldier at the center of the military’s worst soldier-on-soldier violence in six years had gone to four counseling sessions. His rifle had been disabled out of fear for his safety. He’d even asked military police to take him into custody, saying, “I’m done.” Despite these warnings, a military investigation found that he still managed to steal an automatic weapon and kill five people on May 11 at a base counseling center.
The latest Department of Defense identification of casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: •Marine Staff Sgt. Aaron J. Taylor, 27, of Bovey, Minn., died Oct. 9 in combat in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD | Iraq’s government said at least 85,000 Iraqis were killed from 2004 to 2008, officially answering one of the biggest questions of the conflict: How many perished in the sectarian violence that nearly led to a civil war? What remains unanswered by the government is how many died in the 2003 U.S. invasion and in the months of chaos that followed.
