Reuters - The U.S. Army has identified the
remains of a soldier captured by insurgents in Iraq nearly four
years ago, CNN reported on Sunday.
AP - As of Sunday, March 30, 2008, at least 4,010 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 3,261 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AFP - CIA director Michael Hayden warned Sunday that Al-Qaeda was training operatives who "look western" and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? Acting in response to a direct appeal by parliamentarians from the governing Iraqi Shiite parties and the intercession of the Iranian government, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr Sunday ordered his Mahdi Army militia to halt its resistance to a government offensive, leading Iraqi members of parliament said.
AP - The U.S. has demanded to see a Swiss contract for natural gas supplies from Iran to see whether it violates an American sanctions law against Tehran, the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland said Sunday.
AP - Boubakeur el Hakim traded his Paris neighborhood of boulangeries and halal butcher shops for the insurgent camps of Iraq. When he came home, he told his war stories to other young men on the forgotten edges of French society, allegedly persuading some to follow in his footsteps.
AP - The Iraqi capital locked down by curfew. U.S. diplomats holed up their workplaces, fearing rocket attacks. Nearly every major southern city racked by turmoil. Hundreds killed in less than a week.
AP - Iraq refused to endorse the final declaration of the Arab summit on Sunday because it did not condemn terrorism in the country, a divisive end to a gathering marred by disputes and boycotts.
AFP - Deadly fighting between Iraq's government and Shiite militias reverberated on the White House trail Sunday with Republican John McCain's backers adamant the violence was a sign of progress.
Reuters - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr called on his followers on Sunday to stop battling
government forces after a week of fighting in southern Iraq and
Baghdad threatened to spiral out of control.