Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates
reaffirmed to the leader of Oman on Saturday that Washington
wanted to resolve its disputes with Iran diplomatically, a
senior U.S. defense official said.
AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq's fragile government.
AP - A parliamentary committee is working on a pair of oil-related draft bills, one to re-establish the state-run oil company and another to fight oil smuggling, a senior lawmaker said Saturday.
AP - As of Saturday, April 5, 2008, at least 4,013 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 3,273 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - Iran rejected recent European overtures to halt its uranium enrichment program in return for incentives and vowed Saturday to continue to expand its nuclear program.
Iraqi leaders call for militias to disband
(Reuters)
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Reuters - Iraq's political leadership on Saturday
called on all parties to disband their militias before
provincial elections this year, an apparent attempt to isolate
the populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates
reaffirmed to the leader of Oman on Saturday that Washington
wanted to resolve its disputes with Iran diplomatically, a
senior U.S. defense official said.
AP - The Bush administration plans to announce next week that U.S. soldiers' combat tours will be reduced from 15 months to 12 months in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning later this summer, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - A civilian contractor working for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with aggravated assault under military law, the first such prosecution since the Vietnam War, the U.S. command said Saturday.