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Iraq says Turkey controlling protests
May 05, 2013 (AFP)
Acting defence minister Saadun al-Dulaimi on Sunday accused Turkey of controlling Sunni anti-government protests in Shiite-majority Iraq, saying the demonstrati...
Iraq PM's coalition leads in 7 of 12 provinces
May 04, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition won the most provincial council seats in seven of the 12 provinces that voted, according to results...
Children killed in violence at Iraq April protest: UN
May 04, 2013 (AFP)
A UN official said on Saturday that violence at the site of a north Iraq protest in late April killed up to eight children and wounded up to 12 others. Marzio B...
Iraq still using phony bomb detectors at checkpoints
May 03, 2013 (AFP)
A policeman in Baghdad knows the bomb detector he uses is fake, and will do virtually nothing to save anyone's life, but he has his orders. "If I were given a m...
Clashes kill nine police in north Iraq: officials
May 03, 2013 (AFP)
Clashes in northern Iraq killed nine police and four gunmen on Friday, while other attacks, including a car bomb near a Sunni mosque, left at least six more peo...
At least 13 killed in Iraq violence: officials
May 03, 2013 (AFP)
Fighting in northern Iraq killed nine police Friday, while a car bomb targeting worshippers near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad left four dead, security and me...
Outside View: Media crackdown in Iraq
May 03, 2013 (UPI)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems determined to carve out a role for himself as Saddam Hussein's worthy successor. Angered at critics in the press who ...
April deadliest month for Iraq since June 2008: UN
May 02, 2013 (AFP)
April was Iraq's deadliest month in nearly five years, the United Nations said on Thursday, with more than 700 people killed in violence that has raised fears o...
Wave of Iraq violence kills 460 in April: AFP
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
Violence in Iraq rose sharply in April, killing 460 people according to AFP figures, as May started off with attacks that left 13 people dead Wednesday, includi...
Iraqi Kurd ministers, MPs to end boycotts
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish ministers and MPs will end boycotts of parliament and the cabinet begun in March, the prime minister of the autonomous Kurdistan region said on We...
Iraq: Sectarian faultlines widen amid chaos
Apr 30, 2013 (UPI)
Iraq is approaching a security meltdown as a land-and-oil dispute between the Shiite-dominated government and independence-minded Kurds escalates along with sec...
Kuwait says owed $11.2 bn in Iraq war reparations
Apr 30, 2013 (AFP)
Kuwait has received $2.43 billion in war reparations from Iraq since the start of the year and is still owed another $11.2 billion, a senior official in the Gul...
Five car bombs kill 18 in Iraq
Apr 29, 2013 (AFP)
Five car bombs on Monday killed 18 people south of Baghdad, the latest deaths in a week of violence, as Iraq's parliament speaker called for the government to r...
Iraq suspends TV channels after deadly unrest
Apr 28, 2013 (AFP)
Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting "sectarianism", the country's media regulator said on Sunday, as more than 220 people ...
Iraq PM points to Syria over deadly 'sectarian' strife
Apr 27, 2013 (AFP)
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday pointed to the civil war in Syria for the return of sectarian strife to Iraq, as Kurdish forces deploying near a dispu...
UN warns Iraq at 'crossroads,' calls for calm
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
United Nations envoy Martin Kobler warned on Friday that Iraq is at a "crossroads," calling for restraint as a wave of violence killed more than 190 people in f...
Gunmen quit Iraq town as 190 killed in four days
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces began moving back into a northern town on Friday after gunmen who seized it withdrew, as the death toll from four days of violence reached...
Iraq lurks at Bush's Texas-sized party
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Something was unmentionable in polite company gathered to dedicate George W. Bush's presidential library here Thursday: the words "Iraq war." But memories of th...
118 killed in bloody two days for Iraq
Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)
A bloody two days of violence in Iraq left 118 people dead, with 99 of them killed in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their suppor...
Clashes in north Iraq leave 40 dead
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
Deadly fighting hit Kirkuk province in north Iraq on Tuesday, with 27 people killed in clashes between protesters and security forces while 13 gunmen died in re...
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