http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/ This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org Coalition Casualties News Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's main rival Iyad Allawi has inched ahead of the incumbent in the nationwide vote tally, updated results from Iraq's general election showed on Saturday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100320/wl_mideast_afp/iraqvoteresults Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A Kenosha soldier was killed in Iraq after a rocket-propelled grenade hit the watchtower where he was on guard duty, the soldier's family said Saturday. Military officials told relatives that Army Spc. Robert Rieckhoff, 26, died Thursday in Baghdad, his family said. The Defense Department hasn't officially confirmed the death. http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_14718097?nclick_check=1 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in western Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62J0CJ.htm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded two soldiers in western Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62J0CJ.htm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT One policeman was wounded after a hand grenade was thrown at a police patrol, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62J0CJ.htm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding five soldiers, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62J0CJ.htm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A bomb attached to a minibus wounded five people in central Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62J0CJ.htm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business yesterday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/03/20/political-limbo-lingers-in-iraq.html?sid=101 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A soldier seriously wounded in Iraq says troops are telling him they would rather die than be left disabled and dependent on the welfare state. Adam Douglas, 42, from Leeds, says it took him two years to win even a care allowance, and says many other soldiers are having the same problem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/regions/yorkshire_and_lincolnshire/8575220.stm Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Simple pleasures are still elusive here, but on a lazy Friday afternoon — a day before the seventh anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq — about a dozen men went to the movies to watch their war. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/middleeast/20baghdad.html?ref=world Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The leading candidate to succeed Gen. Ray Odierno as the top American commander in Iraq is Lloyd J. Austin III, an Army lieutenant general who has done two tours in Iraq and currently serves as a senior aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military and civilian officials say. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/middleeast/20military.html?ref=world Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT It was a day like any other day -- except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten. "Honestly, with everything that's going on in my personal life, it slipped my mind," said Chris Skidmore, 39. "I've been out of work since August of last year." http://www.detnews.com/article/20100320/NATION/3200340/1020/rss09 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The latest results from Iraq's parliamentary election show the Iraqiya coalition, led by Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, regaining a narrow lead. The State of Law coalition of Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister, remains ahead in Baghdad http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201032043553467740.html Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Police found the bodies of two men with gunshot wounds to the head and chest on Thursday southeast of Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MUH921116.htm Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed one soldier and wounded three others in western Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MUH921116.htm Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi soldiers accompanied by U.S. advisers killed an alleged senior leader of al-Qaeda and captured six of his associates on Thursday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MUH921116.htm Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb and a gun attack have killed four people and wounded seven others in Baghdad. The officials say the roadside bomb went off Friday morning near a market in Baghdad's teeming Shiite district of Sadr City. The explosion killed three people and wounded seven. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031900568.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Staff Sgt. Richard J. Jordan, 29, of Tyler, Texas, died March 16 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13388 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The State of Law coalition of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has regained a narrow lead in Iraq's general election after 83 per cent of votes have been counted, satellite channel al-Arabiya reported Thursday. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1542002.php/Al-Maliki-regains-provisional-lead-in-Iraqi-elections Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Iraq's electoral body said it would review all data in the recent general election, delaying yet again the declaration of a result that was expected and is thought to narrowly favour the coalition of the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, over his secular rival, Iyad Allawi. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/18/iraq-elections-results-delay Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The high-level al-Qaeda militants were captured on Tuesday morning after security forces were tipped off by intelligence agents about their presence in al-Suweira district, which is situated about 135 kilometers (84 miles) north of Kut. http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=181956 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen threw a hand grenade at an Iraqi army patrol wounding two civilians on Wednesday in Mosul, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62H19T.htm Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two roadside bombs wounded six people near an Iraqi army patrol, including two soldiers, on Wednesday in Baghdad's northern Waziriya district, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62H19T.htm Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen killed a man in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62H19T.htm Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Gunmen stormed a house and killed a 24-year-old woman in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62H19T.htm Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT With more than 80% of the votes tallied in Iraq's parliamentary elections and the race still neck and neck, hopes that the country might move beyond its deep Shiite-Sunni divide appear to be fading in a stew of sectarian politics. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-deadlock18-2010mar18,0,3972547.story Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The emerging results from last week's parliamentary elections have made clear that Iraq remains a dangerously polarized nation, with deep regional and sectarian schisms that could widen as the U.S. military draws down. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031702634.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT