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• Britain says critical to reach forces accord with Iraq
LONDON - It is critical for Iraq to reach an agreement in the next few weeks permitting British troops to stay in the country after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of this year, a British Foreign Office minister said Tuesday. Iraq and the United ...
• Conflict in Iraq video  
Oct. 13: Author Dexter Filkins talks about his book "The Forever War" and says that while violence is down 90 percent in some areas of Iraq, the situation is still very fragile. The Iraqi prime minister in August twice assured Bush -- once personally ...
• Army stops Iraq GI from bringing puppy home
Army Sgt. Gwen Beberg has been separated from Rachet, a puppy she and another solider rescued from a burning trash pile in Iraq, after a transfer. More than 10,000 people have now signed an online petition urging the Army to let Beberg bring the ...
• 3 NATO soldiers, 16 civilians die in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in the country, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. In a ...
• Iraq calmer but copycat kidnappings spread
WASHINGTON - Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again. Besides the personal tragedy, his ...