AFP – Turkish aircraft on Sunday carried out fresh attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security force.

AP – President Bush’s top Iraq war commander said Sunday that as far as he knows, his command performances now and in the future will be strictly military, not political.

AP – A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad killed two civilians Sunday, as attacks claimed the lives of at least five people despite a marked decrease in violence across the country in recent months.

AFP – A senior US diplomat said Iran has reined in Shiite militias in Iraq, causing a sharp drop in roadside bomb attacks in recent months, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

AFP – Turkey’s military said it attacked Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq Saturday for the third time in less than a week, bombing and shelling positions and warning more will follow.

AP – As of Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at least 3,897 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,171 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

Reuters – Flanked by her mother
and daughter, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton sought on
Saturday to shore up her support among women in the tightening
U.S. presidential race.

Reuters – Turkish warplanes bombed
Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new
cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.

Reuters – An al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq has
confirmed the death of Abu Maysara, a top operative who the
U.S. military said was killed in a clash last month, according
to a recording posted on the Web on Saturday.

AP – Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military’s Web site said.