Summary: Angry Iraqis are demanding better protection after a spate of bombings that have killed at least 250 and wounded hundreds in just one week as U.S. forces pull back from urban areas to large military bases in accordance with the 2008 status-of-forces agreement between the United States and Iraq.

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Summary: Weekly summary of security incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Summary: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has authorized a long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war, but defied requests from bereaved families and campaigners to hold sessions in public.

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Summary: Daily summary of security developments in Iraq, as reported by Reuters.

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Summary: A car bomb blew up in a packed outdoor food market in Bathaa, near Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad in one of the most peaceful areas of Iraq’s Shiite south, killing about 30 people and wounding dozens more.

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Summary: With at least 24 U.S. service members dead, May 2009 was the deadliest month for American forces in Iraq since September 2008, when 25 died.

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Summary: Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, says the Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012.

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Summary: Suicide bombings in Afghanistan’s northern Kapisa province and Iraq’s western Anbar province have killed six Americans — three in each theater.

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Summary: A Katyusha rocket blasted Baghdad’s fortified government and military Green Zone compound overnight, killing a civilian working for the U.S. Department of Defense. … Tribute to service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Summary: A series of bombings hit Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, killing at least 25 people (including three U.S. troops) and wounding dozens more (including nine American soldiers), one day after a car bomb exploded near a group of restaurants in a Shiite neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, killing 41 people and injuring more than 70.

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