http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/ This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org Coalition Casualties News Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html?ref=world Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A controversy over the disqualification of candidates threatened Tuesday to undermine the legitimacy of Iraq's recent elections and inflame supporters of a coalition seeking to topple the alliance led by the prime minister. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902602.html?hpid=topnews Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2010-03-09-iraq-elections_N.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraq's election commission has postponed announcing initial results from Sunday's parliamentary election because it says it has not finished counting enough votes. http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Iraq-to-Announce-Initial-Results-for-Parliamentary-Election-87103897.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Three policemen were killed in a bomb explosion followed by gunfire in a village in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Tuesday, a provincial police source said. The incident took place when gunmen blew up a roadside bomb near a car carrying three policemen in Hissy village east of Fallujah city, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6914557.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Even before the votes were tallied, Iraq’s candidates and coalitions began positioning themselves in an evolving political landscape on Monday. Some claimed victory, and a few conceded defeat in an election on Sunday that the top American officials here called a milestone that kept the withdrawal of American troops on pace. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/world/middleeast/09iraq.html?hp Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Iraq election has shored up the country’s fragile democracy, but the months ahead are fraught with potential dangers far more worrying than the bombs that echoed through Baghdad as voters went to the polls over the weekend. http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100308/wl_csm/285915 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq. A statement says the soldiers died Monday. It says two other soldiers were injured in the same accident, which is under investigation. The names of the soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/08/us-military-2-soldiers-die-in-iraq-in-accident/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Participation is nearly 75% in Sunni-dominated Salahuddin province. Turnout in Baghdad is lower, possibly dampened by a morning bombardment by militants. Election results are days away. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iraq-turnout9-2010mar09,0,6430775.story Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, about 4 million Iraqis fled their homes. About 2 million fled the country entirely — and many are still outside its borders. Throughout the war, NPR's Deborah Amos has spent much of her time with Iraqis, who fled to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124481202&ft=1&f=3 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Iraqi prime minister’s coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer. http://www.telegram.com/article/20100309/NEWS/3090403/1052/NEWS01 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi's election will test many fronts and even after the results are in, it will be a long journey for the war-torn country to create a functioning government, U.S. troops say. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35709012/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A soldier was killed Tuesday by an explosion in Turkey's restive southeast region, Turkish media has reported. The explosion in the Hakkari region, reportedly caused by a bomb set off by remote control, injured three other soldiers. Another soldier was killed Monday by an explosion in the same area, near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1539581.php/Turkish-soldier-killed-in-explosion-near-Iraq-border Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Six people were wounded when residents fired weapons to celebrate Iraq's election on Sunday in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM843419.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A woman was killed and 36 people were wounded on Sunday in attacks targeting polling centres in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM843419.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Turnout for Iraq's second election for a full parliamentary term was 62% of about 19 million eligible voters, the country's election commission said. That is lower than the last full parliamentary election in December 2005, in which roughly 76% of eligible voters turned out. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304575109632777319968.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENewsIntl Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Supporters of a fiery anti-U.S. cleric may have staged a comeback in Iraq’s parliamentary election in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, once a bastion of Shi’ite militants and now a bellwether of Shi’ite political sentiment. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/March/middleeast_March174.xml&section=middleeast&col= Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this town, nicknamed the City of Mosques, the scratchy loudspeakers of muezzins that once preached resistance to the American occupation implored Sunni Arabs to defy bombs and vote Sunday. They did, in a landmark election that demonstrated how far Iraq has come and perhaps how far it has to go. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/middleeast/08sunnis.html?hp Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi authorities counted votes, a day after a parliamentary election that Islamist militants tried to disrupt with attacks that killed 38 people. Preliminary results were not expected for another day or two in a poll that Iraqis sickened by years of violence hope will help bring stability and better governance as US troops leave. http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/iraq-count-votes-amid-violence-3396795 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi coalitions and political parties jockeyed Monday for position following the country's pivotal vote meant to usher in the next government, as the election commission head estimated a turnout of 55 and 60 per cent. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iraq-awaits-results-of-historic-election/article1493371/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Violence against Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul-- the modern name for ancient Nineveh-- has led over 1,000 Christian families to flee in the past ten days, Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa said on March 5. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5651 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Defying a sustained barrage of mortars and rockets in Baghdad and other cities, Iraqis went to the polls in numbers on Sunday to choose a new parliament meant to outlast the American military presence here. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/middleeast/08iraq.html?hp Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT