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Iraq PM heads to US to push for security support
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki left for Washington on Tuesday, where he will push for increased US support for Baghdad's efforts to curb a months-long surg...
Outside View: Why Obama shouldn't meet Maliki
Oct 29, 2013 (UPI)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has formally announced plans to visit the United States and meet with U.S. government officials on Thursday. For U.S. Presi...
Iraq needs new strategy to curb violence, experts say
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
Iraq's disjointed array of security measures are failing to control rampant violence, and it needs to make longer-term efforts that build trust among citizens, ...
Spate of attacks kills 61 in Iraq
Oct 27, 2013 (AFP)
Ten bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 41 people on Sunday, while 20 died in bombings and shootings elsewhere i...
Iraq, Turkey vow to open 'new chapter' in relations
Oct 25, 2013 (AFP)
Iraq and Turkey on Friday vowed, following a meeting between foreign ministers, to improve relations between the two countries which have been marred in recent ...
US offers funds to move Iranian exiles out of Iraq
Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Thursday offered $1 million to help resettle Iranian opposition exiles currently in Iraq, contributing to a UN appeal in the wake of violen...
Iraq on brink again amid multi-bomber suicide attacks
Oct 23, 2013 (UPI)
Iraq is being torn apart anew by sectarian violence, fueled in part by the civil war in neighboring Syria, with some 7,000 people killed so far this year in a c...
Iraq PM warns of 'war of genocide' as attacks kill 48
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Wednesday that the country is facing a "war of genocide" after officials said militants had killed 48 people in tw...
Iraq attacks including nine suicide bombings kill 49
Oct 20, 2013 (AFP)
Twin bomb attacks Sunday on a Baghdad cafe killed dozens of people in one of nine suicide attacks across Iraq, which is suffering its worst violence in five yea...
Suicide bomber kills 15 in north Iraq
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives in a village in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 15 people, police and a doctor said. The blast to...
Fear curbs holiday celebrations in Iraq's Mosul
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
Fear generated by near-daily violence has kept residents of Iraq's second-largest city Mosul at home this Eid al-Adha rather than out celebrating the main Musli...
Attacks including Baghdad car bombs kill 66 in Iraq
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
A series of car bombs hit Baghdad province on Thursday, killing at least 44 people, while 22 died in other attacks, including two suicide bombings in northern I...
Bomb targeting Eid worshippers kills 12 in Iraq
Oct 15, 2013 (AFP)
A bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers as they left a Sunni mosque in Iraq Tuesday, killing 12 people, as they marked the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday...
War-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq: study
Oct 15, 2013 (AFP)
Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United...
Iraq blasts kill 20 as year's death toll passes 5,000
Oct 13, 2013 (AFP)
Bombings in Iraq killed 20 people Sunday and brought the year's toll to more than 5,000 dead in a surge in violence that authorities have failed to curb, offici...
Tight post-attack security curbs Iraqi Kurdistan tourism
Oct 12, 2013 (AFP)
Tight security measures imposed after a rare deadly attack in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have curbed tourism ahead of the year's biggest Muslim holiday,...
Iraq car bomb targeting shoppers kills 13
Oct 12, 2013 (AFP)
A car bomb exploded in a crowded street in a city north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding 32, police and a doctor said. The dead ...
Iraq violence kills 21 people
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Violence in Iraq killed 21 people on Thursday, among them four anti-Al-Qaeda fighters and an AFP journalist's brother, officials said. In Samarra, north of Bagh...
Iraq executes 42 'terrorism' convicts in a week
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Iraq executed 42 "terrorism" convicts over the past week, the justice ministry said on Thursday, defying international condemnation of its extensive use of the ...
Iraq attacks kill 9, wound parliament chief's guards
Oct 09, 2013 (AFP)
Attacks killed nine people in Iraq on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near a convoy of parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi's guards, wounding at least five,...
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