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.

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.

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.

Reuters – The U.S. ambassador to Iraq praised
Iran on Sunday for helping to curb Shi’ite militia violence in
Iraq on Sunday, using some of the warmest language Washington
has employed toward its arch foe over Iraq.

AFP – The US ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, on Sunday was cautious in acknowledging Iran’s role in helping curb the bloodshed in Iraq, but he also said Tehran could trigger chaos there if it wanted.

Reuters – A double roadside bomb attack killed
one U.S. soldier and wounded 11 in northern Iraq’s Kirkuk
province, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

AFP – A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a joint Iraqi army and police checkpoint in western Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people, a security official said.

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

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