U.S. to free 50 Iraqi detainees a day in Ramadan
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Fifty Iraqis will be freed from U.S. prisons in Iraq each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the office of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Friday.
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The U.S. government must provide  within 30 days documents relating to the treatment of prisoners  held at American detention centers overseas, including Iraq's  Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge ordered  on Wednesday.
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The United States will not release five Iranians detained in a U.S. military raid in northern Iraq until at least October, despite entreaties from the Iraqi government and pressure from Iran,  U.S. officials said. The delay is as much due to a communication and procedural foul-up within the U.S....
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U.S. forces in Iraq are striking a variety of "handshake agreements" with Iraqi insurgents and militia groups, sometimes resulting in the release of fighters detained for attacking coalition forces, U.S. military officials said in several recent interviews.
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A 50 percent increase in the number of detainees comes, officials said, because U.S. forces are operating in areas where they had not been present for some time.
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An aide of the head of al-Qaida in Iraq was arrested last week, and U.S. and Iraqi forces killed or captured more than 600 suspected members of the terrorist group in September, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday.
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The U.S. military on Saturday confirmed the arrests of 25 people linked to the assassination of the leader of the U.S.-backed revolt by Sunni Arab tribesmen in the western Anbar province against al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Iraqi security forces say they have detained at least 50 people after Sunday's bloody attacks in Najaf and Karbala.
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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- More aggressive US military operations in Iraq over the past two months have generated a surge in detainees, nearly doubling the number held by US forces to about 8,300, according to the general in charge of detention operations.
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Six civilian detainees were killed and at least 50 more were wounded in an attack on the U.S.-run Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq on Saturday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fifty people suspected of  involvement in Iraq's insurgency have been detained in Najaf  following Sunday's suicide car bombing in which the death toll  has risen to 52 killed and over 140 wounded, the governor said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis  in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaeda hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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A U.S. citizen held since late 2001 as an enemy combatant is to be sent to Saudi Arabia by Thursday under an agreement to release him that was made public Monday.
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In the first week of a special program during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. military released 260 Iraqi detainees from U.S. prisons, the military said Wednesday, compelling each to take a pledge before an Iraqi judge not to engage in misconduct and requiring a family member or a friend...
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The United States is expanding its two major detention centers in Iraq with the expectation that the new security crackdown in Baghdad will add hundreds and perhaps thousands of prisoners to the 17,000 it  holds,  U.S. military spokesmen said.
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Iraqi officials suspect that 50 US trained Iraqi soldiers murdered by insurgents - many of them execution-style â-ay have been set up by rebel infiltrators in their ranks.
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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is  supposed to be a time of spiritual joy, but the most that  Iraqis can pray for this time is that it brings a moment of  peace.