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U.S. and Iraqi forces in northern iraq killed four suspected terrorists and destroyed an al-Qaida in iraq hiding place Thursday during a raid, officials said.

A major haul of documents in iraq has added to the opinion that al-Qaeda is a regimented organisation which keeps detailed accounts of its members and their involvement in the terrorism.

At a town-hall meeting in Philadelphia yesterday, Sen. john mccain promised a vigorous campaign to carry Pennsylvania in November.Even as he spoke, he was drawing criticism from Democrats for his comments in a morning television interview that he wanted to reduce U.S. casualties in iraq but that exactly when all the troops come home was "not too important."

In a week in which john mccain and Barack Obama have gone at each other over tax policy, health care and iraq, the buzz in the blogosphere concerns a very different subject.

WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - For those seeking different and deeper reasons why iraq ended up where it is today, other than the often-cited but somewhat clichéd list of blunders like the disbanding of the Iraqi army and dissolving of the Baath party, Jonathan Steele's 'Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost iraq' is a must-read.

Republican presidential nominee john mccain says it is 'not too important' when US troops withdraw from iraq

The presidential campaigns clashed Wednesday over strategy in iraq as advisers to Sen. Barack Obama seized on remarks by Sen. john mccain to accuse him of being insensitive to the sacrifices being made by american soldiers.

Italian leader seen as strong Bush ally, but US president remains highly unpopular in Italy, mainly because of iraq war

Scotland Yard and Downing Street both said Wednesday they have launched investigations into how top-secret British intelligence documents on al Qaeda and iraq came to be left on a commuter train by a senior civil servant in the UK's Cabinet Office. 'It's a serious breach of Cabinet Office procedures -- a member of staff took the papers out of the office when they should not have and left them on a train,' Cabinet Office spokesman James O'Sullivan told CNN. Full Story

FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.