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AP - A United Nations representative urged political and religious leaders in iraq on Friday to encourage children to renounce violence, saying that rising numbers of youth are being recruited into insurgent groups and militias.

Insurgent groups in iraq are recruiting children for suicide attacks, according to a senior UN official.

The new U.S. Embassy complex does not have enough fortified living quarters for hundreds of diplomats and other workers, who must remain temporarily in trailers.

AMMAN - Iraqi children are being recruited as suicide bombers by various militias and insurgent grou...

BAGHDAD, April 25 -- Anti-american cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his millions of followers Friday to continue observing a fragile cease-fire and not attack Iraqi troops, a move apparently designed to stave off a bloody confrontation with the government.

Asian-american stoners Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay while a new Errol Morris film, Standard Operating Procudure, documents the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in iraq. Bob Mondello says the latter is an eye-opener.

The top U.S. military official accused Iran on Friday of increasing arms and training support to insurgents in iraq as well as militants battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Fierce overnight clashes between Shi'a militiamen and US and Iraqi forces have reportedly killed 11 people.

The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for 'potential military courses of action' against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's 'increasingly lethal and malign influence' in iraq.

At least 11 people were killed and 36 others were wounded in overnight battles in northern Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.