AFP - The United States faces the risk of a costly, open-ended quagmire in Iraq because of a lack of political progress in the divided country, a report by US experts said.
AFP - Chile on Sunday greeted 39 Palestinians from a refugee camp in Syria for permanent resettlement, and local residents turned out to give them a rousing welcome.
AP - As of Sunday, April 6, 2008, at least 4,017 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.
Reuters - President George W. Bush plans to
address the nation on Thursday morning about the Iraq war, CNN
reported on Sunday.
AP - An 8-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Sunday in an explosion in the central Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, medical officials said.
Reuters - There is no end in sight for the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and a quick exit would risk "massive chaos and even genocide," a U.S. think tank said in a report released on Sunday.
Reuters - Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces
battled gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a return to
heavy fighting in the capital after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago.
AFP - Fierce clashes on Sunday between Shiite militiamen and US forces in Baghdad killed at least 20 people while three American soldiers died and 31 were injured in rocket attacks, officials said.
AFP - Democrats Sunday called on President George W. Bush to refocus US counter-terror efforts to Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying that over-emphasis on Iraq has allowed Islamic extremists to regroup along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Reuters - Three U.S. soldiers were killed and 31
others were injured in two attacks with rockets or mortar bombs
in Baghdad on Sunday, a U.S. military official said.