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Language barrier cuts between Iraq's Arabs and Kurds
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Ask younger Iraqi Kurds if they speak Arabic, and they often say no, or not well -- a linguistic barrier with the country's Arabs stemming from a nationalist ba...
Militants launch major assault on Iraq's Samarra
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Militants launched a major attack on the Iraqi city of Samarra on Thursday and occupied several neighbourhoods, sparking house-to-house fighting and helicopter ...
Iraq attacks kill 32
Jun 04, 2014 (AFP)
A wave of attacks across Iraq, including twin car bombs in an ethnically mixed tinderbox city, killed 32 people Wednesday as a year-long surge of violence showe...
Iraq attacks and shelling kill 35
Jun 03, 2014 (AFP)
Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coal...
Iraqi Kurdish village 'shelled by Turkey'
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
The Turkish military shelled a village in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on Monday, security officials and witnesses said, after a period of relative...
Nine dead in Iraq attacks as unrest spikes
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
Attacks across Iraq, including in the normally peaceful south, killed nine people Monday after unrest a day earlier left 40 dead, the latest in a protracted sur...
Attacks kill 16 as May toll tops 900
Jun 01, 2014 (AFP)
Attacks across Iraq killed 16 people on Sunday, while new figures showed violence last month claimed more than 900 lives as the country grapples with its worst ...
Clashes near Iraq's Fallujah as conflict toll reaches 366
May 31, 2014 (AFP)
Clashes erupted between Iraqi troops and anti-government fighters on the outskirts of Fallujah on Saturday, as the militant-held city's main hospital said 366 p...
Britain's Iraq inquiry to see parts of Blair-Bush letters
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
Britain's government agreed on Thursday to give extracts of letters from Tony Blair to George W. Bush to an inquiry into the Iraq war, overcoming the main hurdl...
Post-election wave of Iraq attacks kills 74
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
A post-election wave of attacks across Iraq, including car bombings in Baghdad and a northern city, killed at least 74 people, officials said Thursday. The comp...
63 killed in brutal Iraq post-election attacks
May 28, 2014 (AFP)
Attacks across Iraq, including a spate of car bombs in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, killed 63 people Wednesday in the bloodiest violence to hit Iraq ...
Iraq using barrel bombs, hitting Fallujah hospital: HRW
May 27, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's government is dropping barrel bombs and may also be targeting a hospital in its battle with militants in the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, Human Rights ...
Iraqi Kurds slam Baghdad legal action over oil shipment
May 25, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's Kurdistan region on Sunday slammed legal action filed by the central government against Turkey, saying it was illegitimate and likely to fail, in the lat...
Rivals challenge Iraq PM's election success
May 25, 2014 (AFP)
Nuri al-Maliki may be in pole position to remain Iraq's prime minister, but allegations of malpractice during last month's polls are clouding the prospect of fo...
25 killed in Iraq as Shiites throng Baghdad for rituals
May 24, 2014 (AFP)
Throngs of Shiite Muslims converged on a shrine in Baghdad on Saturday for an annual ritual under heavy security, but a string of attacks outside the capital ki...
Iraq attacks on Shiite pilgrims kill 16
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
A series of bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims, including by a suicide attacker disguised as a woman, killed 16 people in Baghdad Thursday despite heavy securit...
Quick fixes unlikely for Iraq after election: Whiles scores killed
May 20, 2014 (AFP)
Strong election results may deliver a third term for incumbent premier Nuri al-Maliki, but few of Iraq's intractable problems, from brutal violence to fragile s...
Maliki emerges atop Iraq poll in bid to remain PM
May 19, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won by far the most seats in parliamentary elections, results showed Monday, putting him in the driver's seat for a third te...
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's rebel-turned-PM
May 19, 2014 (AFP)
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's tough-talking but uncharismatic rebel-turned-leader, looked set to remain prime minister after results on Monday from April's general ele...
Iraq election candidate kidnapped as attacks kill nine
May 18, 2014 (AFP)
Militants kidnapped an Iraqi election candidate Sunday as attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed nine people and officials prepared to announce the results...
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