Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 26 Jun 2008 [PDF]
• Transcript: Commander, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division Col. Charles Flynn 26 Jun 2008 -- Presenter: DoD News Briefing with Col. Flynn from Iraq
• Forces in Iraq Kill Enemies, Capture Suspects, Find Weapons AFPS 26 Jun 2008 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces killed three militants, detained 20 suspects and found weapons in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said.
• Iraqi Soldiers, Police Make Progress Purging Amarah of Militias AFPS 26 Jun 2008 -- Iraqi soldiers and police, assisted by U.S. and coalition troops, are making good progress in pacifying the city of Amarah and surrounding areas in Iraq's Maysan province, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today.
• Separate Bomb Attacks Kill Nearly 40 People in Iraq VOA 26 Jun 2008 -- Iraqi officials say a car bomb attack has killed 18 people and wounded at least 62 others near a government office in the northern city of Mosul.

Deployments

US Policy

• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Gates from the Pentagon 26 Jun 2008 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
• Iraq: Bush, Talabani Signal Progress On Thorny Security Pact RFE/RL 26 Jun 2008 -- The United States and Iraq are signaling progress in negotiating what's called a Status-of-Forces Agreement (SOFA), which would set the rules for the presence of U.S. forces in the country.

United Nations

• UN agencies resume food relief for Iraqi refugees in Syria UN News Centre 26 Jun 2008 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN refugee agency said today that they have resumed food distributions to tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees in the Syrian capital, Damascus, after a two-month interruption.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi army shows great growth in year Army News 26 Jun 2008 -- The Iraqi army has grown by 60 percent in the last year, and stands now at nearly 180,000 soldiers

Foreign Reactions

• Iran not interfering with Iraq-US security deal: envoy IRNA 26 Jun 2008 -- Iran's Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi said on Wednesday that Tehran does not interfere with the strategic agreement between Iraq and the US.

News Reports