Soldier gets life without parole in Iraq killings
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq....

UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations said Thursday, a step toward defusing an explosive dispute left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the U.S.-led ousting of the regime of Saddam Hussein....

Turkey: oil search deal reached in northern Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey says its state-run petroleum company has reached a deal with U.S. company Exxon Mobil to explore for oil in northern Iraq. ...

Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A sharp rise in attacks on Sunni holy sites in Iraq is feeding fears that the country could spiral into a new round of sectarian violence similar to the bloodletting that brought Iraq to its knees in 2006 and 2007....

Judge: Soldier premeditated Iraq killings
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- A military judge found Army Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder Monday in the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq....

Iraq rejects refuge for Turkey's Kurdish fighters
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq on Thursday rejected a key element of an accord to bring an end to a long Kurdish uprising in Turkey - offering refuge to rebel fighters in country's north....