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Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric in Iraq and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said.
Jabbar Saleh al-Jibouri was killed shortly before dawn on Thursday (local...
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Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday.
In the first of the two attacks, three...
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Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an...
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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...
made popular Aug 26 2010
The U.S. military is on track to cut numbers in Iraq to 50,000 by end August, when the 7-1/2-year combat mission launched by former President George W. Bush ends and...
made popular Aug 20 2010
The death toll from explosions at a market in Iraq’s second-largest city has risen to 43, Iraqi officials said Sunday, adding that as many as 185 people were also...
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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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A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people on Thursday, half in suicide bombings in the northern city of Mosul,...
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An Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. military was gunned down Friday by his son and nephew north of the capital after he refused their demands to quit his job, a police...
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The Americans arrived in Iraq from another planet. This part of the world lives in a different historical phase. Imagine that they can operate in the region and deeply...
made popular May 31 2010
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...
made popular May 28 2010
Islamist al-Qaeda-aligned insurgents in Iraq are probably terribly proud of themselves, after yesterday’s tally of casualties. On Monday, they managed to murder...
made popular May 11 2010
Iraqi diplomats are clearing out the rubble of their bombed Foreign Ministry building while the nation grapples with the aftermath of an attack that has rocked the...
made popular Aug 25 2009
Some worshippers stayed away from mosques Friday, offering their traditional prayers at home. Markets had fewer-than-usual shoppers. Parks were strangely uncrowded —...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Martin Chulov reports from the Iraqi capital in the aftermath of at least six explosions in which government buildings appear to have been targeted.
Baghdad was rocked...
made popular Aug 19 2009
Iraq dreams of what is called sustainable peace — a qualified condition that allows life to go on with an acceptable level of tumult. And so, with a measure of...
made popular Aug 12 2009
A double truck bombing tore through a Shiite community near the northern city of Mosul, while blasts in Baghdad targeted primarily Shiites in a wave of violence that...
made popular Aug 10 2009
A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and...
made popular Aug 8 2009
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The Iraqi government has announced that within the next 40 days all blast walls will be removed from Baghdad.
The building of the walls escalated in 2006 at the height...
made popular Aug 6 2009
When insurgents attacked an American convoy with AK-47 rounds and a couple of grenades on a dusty highway in a Baghdad suburb this week, U.S. soldiers returned fire,...
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After the U.S.-Iraqi pact was adopted by the Iraqi parliament’s ratification through a wide majority, I suggested in a previous article about the strategic...
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The big story today as elected by the major and not so major world media is that there had been a series of bombings in Iraq leaving quite a few corpses (BBC reports it...
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