US: 500 Youths Detained In Iraq -- Washington TimesGunmen 'kill 11 Iraqi recruits' -- BBC News
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,080 -- Yahoo News
U.S. Quietly Slashes the Reward for Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader -- U.S. News And World Report
How picture phones have fuelled frenzy of honour killing in Iraq -- Independent
Murderer of Iraqi Archbishop Sentenced to Death -- Jawa Report
Attrition taking toll on Mahdi army -- Strategy Page
Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments -- Newsweek
U.S. apologizes over use of Quran as target -- MSNBC
Iraqi court rulings stop at U.S. detention sites -- MSNBC
News Media Exposes Secret Action To Free British Hostages - What’s Up With That? -- Strata-Sphere
Iraqi officials say top Qaeda figure in Mosul has been arrested -- International Herald Tribune
Former Hussein general arrested -- CNN
Updates On The War In Iraq 05_18_08 -- Strata-Sphere
Operation Lion's Roar nets more than 1,000 suspects -- Long War Journal
My Comment: The war continues. But the conflict appears to be slowly dying down. The news is not what it was a year or two ago. Let's keep our fingers crossed. The months of March - June and September - December have always been the most bloodiest.
