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The Mahdi army in Iraq has added a new and simple yet lethal weapon to its armoury. It is the Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions, or IRAMs. The US army has termed it the ‘flying IEDs.’ It is a low-tech weapon that has a propane tank with...
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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,...
made popular Dec 12 2008
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...
made popular Oct 11 2008
At least 22 police officers and Awakening Council members were killed in an ambush southwest of Diyala Wednesday, a U.S. military official said.
made popular Sep 25 2008
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...
made popular Sep 17 2008
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.
made popular Jul 29 2008
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...
made popular May 4 2008
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...
made popular Apr 16 2008
The US military says an Apache helicopter has accidentally destroyed one of its own armoured vehicles in eastern Baghdad.
The military says the incident occurred...
made popular Apr 13 2008
hi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia last year, raising the prospect of worsening violence on a day when...
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Around hundred’s of bodies were recovered from an orchard in Iraq’s Diyala province.
The grave was found on Saturday by U.S. and Iraqi forces conducting a joint...
made popular Mar 12 2008
BAGHDAD - Two American soldiers killed last month during an operation in the northern city of Mosul appear to have been deliberately shot to death by an Iraqi soldier...
made popular Jan 17 2008
Iraq has now lived four years of brutal U.S. occupation, or a civil war to be precise, and has seen enough bloodshed since the toppling of Saddam’s 20-foot statue...
made popular Apr 9 2007
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The U.S. military has tied itself into a verbal knot as it tries to avoid further inflaming tensions with Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr while confronting members of his...
made popular May 8 2008
As he campaigns with the weight of a deeply unpopular war on his shoulders, Senator John McCain of Arizona frequently uses the shorthand “Al Qaeda” to describe the...
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More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply abandoned their posts during the inconclusive assault against Shiite militias in Basra...
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Militiamen with the Mahdi Army, the followers of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, mostly vanished from the streets of Basra on Monday, a day after he ordered them to...
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The six-month ceasefire order given by Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to his Mahdi Army militia may not be renewed, his aides warned on Wednesday three days before...
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In the recent concluded elections in the US, the Democrats have been assigned by the electorates to take a new approach on Iraq. This was a mandate and just given a...
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