Iraq War News Updates -- July 17, 2009

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Adam Jeter, left, talks on the radio during a joint air assault operation planned and led by Iraqi forces in the Ma'dain area east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. James Selesnick

US Military In Iraq Says 3 Soldiers Killed -- Yahoo News/AP

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said Friday that three of its soldiers were killed in an attack on a base outside Iraq's second largest city of Basra, in the south.

In other violence, two Iraqis were killed by a bomb in Baghdad as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered to mark the death of a revered Shiite religious figure. And in Karmah, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital, the daughter and granddaughter of a police officer died in a bombing at his home.

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More News On Iraq

3 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Southern Iraq -- New York Times
Two children killed in Iraq bombing -- AFP
11 killed in Iraq bombings -- AFP
18 hurt by Baghdad bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims -- AP
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 17 -- Reuters
Iraq gears up for $30 billion housing projects -- Washington Post
Iraq-Kurd impasse seen to threaten unrest -- AFP
Conflict looms in Kurdistan -- Guardian opinion
For US in Iraq 'out of the cities' means just that -- The National
Advisory brigades to be deployed to Iraq -- UPI
Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump? -- ZNet
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq War: 4,324 -- ABC News