http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/ This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org Coalition Casualties News The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton, 37, of Freeport, Ill., died Nov. 19 in Kuwait in a non-combat accident. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13141 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A bomb wounded nine people when it exploded inside a popular restaurant in the southern district of Doura in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS044618.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen shot dead a civilian in western Mosul on Thursday, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS044618.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen stabbed to death an Egyptian in central Mosul on Thursday, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS044618.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb struck a police patrol, wounding a policeman in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANS044618.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Jasim al-Asmer (not his real name) is a singer without a stage. As he serves customers in his café, his dreamy manner hints at his musical calling. He moves slowly, as if maintaining a delicate internal balance, and he speaks softly, seemingly to spare his voice. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35815 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to resolve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-11-20-08-30-04 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Many more mental health specialists were wounded in the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, than previously reported, decimating the two units deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq, a commanding general says. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-11-19-replacements-fort-hood_N.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT At least four people were killed and six injured in two attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, police there told the German Press Agency dpa. Three policemen were killed and five were injured by a roadside bomb as they patrolled western Mosul, police said. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1514296.php/At-least-four-killed-in-Mosul-attacks Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Army Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona was killed in Iraq on the very day that he was going home. He was en route, heading south on the road between Baghdad and Kuwait City, when a tractor-trailer lost control, jackknifed across the highway and crushed his Humvee. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/79133.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-11-19-wives-of-baghdad-four-ask-zuma-for-help Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A former Army sergeant who revealed the murders of four Iraqis at a canal in 2007 says he has no regrets about breaking his silence. "I did the right thing," Jess Cunningham told CNN. "I'm not going to hide behind false brotherhood." http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/19/army.tapes.soldier.speaks/index.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A top Iraqi official vetoed the country's election law Wednesday, throwing the government's plans to hold parliamentary elections in January into disarray. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120536398 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn, 35, of Upton, Wyo., died Nov.16 in Tal Afar, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13135 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A bomb planted on a bicycle wounded a policeman in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI150001.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen stormed a house and killed a local Sunni Arab pro-government militia leader and his cousin in a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI150001.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb struck a police patrol, wounding two policemen, in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI150001.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Iraq's election commission has halted all preparations for elections in January after Iraq's vice president vetoed part of an election law that had paved the way for the poll, an electoral official said on Wednesday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34010861/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday promised major deals -- including large oil contracts -- to French business chiefs keen to restore their place as Iraq's top business partners. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/bs_afp/franceiraqdiplomacytradelead Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Iraq's vice president on Wednesday vetoed legislation to organize the country's parliamentary elections in January, throwing the law back to a Parliament that had haggled for months before finally passing it last week. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111800600.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Only a week after Iraq’s leaders celebrated the passage of an election law that kept the country on course to hold its first national elections in four years, Kurdish lawmakers threatened Tuesday to boycott the election unless their demand for a greater share of parliamentary seats was met. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/middleeast/18iraq.html?ref=world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT