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BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister set forward the skeleton of his new government on Monday night, proposing ministers to fill a majority of cabinet seats and bringing...
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BAGHDAD — Only three hours into a parliamentary session called on Thursday to begin the process of approving an agreement on a new unity government, members of an...
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A pair of car bombs have torn through two different Baghdad neighbourhoods, killing at least 31 people and breaking what has been a period of relative calm since the...
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More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime...
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A series of bomb attacks, including a twin massive car bombings, in Baghdad on Sunday killed 32 people and wounded 119 others.
Two deadly car bomb explosions, almost...
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Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the...
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All together 64 people were killed and 274 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks, including suicide car bombings, targeting Iraqi police across the country on...
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Gunmen burst into a house north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killed three people and then sent the surviving children to lure over soldiers from a nearby Iraqi army...
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Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.
Police spokesman Maj. Ghalib al-Karkhi says the...
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Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack...
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A suicide car bomber has killed four people in an attack near the Baghdad offices of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab news channel, al-Arabiya.
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Is there is a withdraw or a simple draw-down?
The United States intends to “withdrawal” from Iraq by the end of 2011. The U.S. military has already...
made popular Jul 23 2010
A car bomb has exploded in a marketplace near the Iraqi city of Baquba killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, police say.
The blast went off near a...
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Eight people have been killed, including four policemen and an Iraqi general, in a series of attacks around the country, Iraqi officials say.
The policemen were killed...
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Iraqi officials say a car bomb has exploded in a shopping area in western Baghdad, killing three people.
The attack in the Iraqi capital comes one day after a car...
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At least 14 people have been killed in a mass raid by gunmen on jewellers’ shops in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
About 10 gunmen rampaged through a busy street...
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A pickup truck driven by a suicide bomber struck a commercial strip in a predominantly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Friday evening, the latest in a string of...
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Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad yesterday in a co-ordinated attack that killed at least 41 people and ended a period of relative calm.
The suicide bombings...
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi military uniforms raided homes in a Sunni village south of Baghdad, killing 25 people, including five women, execution-style, officials said...
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A suicide bomber has exploded a car in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, killing at least seven people and wounding 13, officials have said.
The explosion took...
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In a short notice the Iraq Election Commission has postponed announcing the initial results of the election that took place last week with the reason that they have not...
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Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 48 others before a...
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A woman has blown herself up in north-east Baghdad, killing more than 40 people and injuring about 100 others.
Most of the casualties are believed to be Shia pilgrims,...
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Saddam Hussein henchman Chemical Ali was yesterday sentenced to death for ordering a poison gas attack that killed 5,600 people.
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Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
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A Sunni cleric known for denouncing insurgents in Iraq was killed Friday by a bomb that ripped apart his car, a police official said, in the second targeted attack on a...
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Attacks in Baghdad and a city in northern Iraq killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, the worst violence since Iraq celebrated the withdrawal of...
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President Barack Obama claimed that America will not be retaining any permanent bases in Iraq. This was meant to be a sign to Iraqis and the broader Arab world that the...
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Lurid artificial flowers and tinsel decorated the police cars and balloons and streamers adorned the concrete security checkpoints of South Baghdad yesterday as...
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The attack on the eatery outside Kirkuk wounded 109 others, but none of the politicians was seriously hurt.
Police haven’t determined a motive for the attack,...
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A U.S.-Iraqi security agreement spelling out how American troops and contractors operate was supposed to be in place over the summer, but the thorniest issues remain...
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At least 22 police officers and Awakening Council members were killed in an ambush southwest of Diyala Wednesday, a U.S. military official said.
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Syria has opened a new page in its relation with Iraq. The problem of this page that it is based on the economical interests of Syria. It is not by any means based on...
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Hi, it’s me again ! ;-)... I thought I’d share with all of you guys some aspects of our ordinary daily Baghdadi life, how we actually live, or more...
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Hi,it’s me again !;-)... Four years ago, I became a medical student at Baghdad Medical School, which is of course a very huge honour and privilage,but at the same...
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Suicide bombers have killed at least 53 people and wounded about 240 in attacks on crowds in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk.
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The U.S. military says it has captured a suspected Shiite militia leader south of Baghdad. A military statement says the suspect and five others were detained Tuesday...
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Location: Al-Sadr hospital, Sadr City, Baghdad.
Date: Sat May 3, 2008.
Time: Approximately 10 am local time (0700 GMT).
A US rocket attack blasts its way down and...
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A spate of bombs have gone off in cities across Iraq killing more than 60 people.
In Diyala, 60km north of Baghdad, province a car bomb exploded near a crowd of people...
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A woman holds a child in her arms as she begs on a street in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 3, 2009. The British-based charity, Oxfam, in a recent study, concluded that Iraqi women face extreme poverty and personal insecurity despite an overall...
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