IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Iraq attacks on security forces kill four

Mar 31, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks mostly targeting security forces in and around Baghdad and in northern Iraq, one of them a suicide bombing, killed four people on Sunday, the latest in ...

Car bombs kill 18 at Iraq Shiite mosques

Mar 29, 2013 (AFP)

A series of car bombs near Shiite mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers killed at least 18 people on Friday, the latest in a spike in unrest ah...

Iraq executes 18 despite international outcry

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

Iraq executed 18 people this month, eight of them on the same day as an attack on the justice ministry, a top official said on Wednesday, despite global condemn...

Bomb kills two Iraq politicians in disputed town

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

A bomb tore through an armour-plated car near a disputed town north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two election candidates and badly hurting a mayor, weeks befo...

Jailed Kurdish rebel leader calls for ceasefire

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan called Thursday for a new ceasefire, telling his fighters to lay down their arms and withdraw from Turkish soil, rais...

52 killed on eve of Iraq war anniversary

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks killed 52 in Iraq on Tuesday as some ministers began a boycott of government and officials delayed provincial polls, heightening tensions on the eve of ...

Home to foreign media, Iraq hotel gets makeover

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Famous the world over for housing masses of foreign journalists during the US-led invasion of Iraq, the Palestine Hotel has since undergone a makeover and looks...

World's largest embassy to be slashed by two-thirds

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

The US mission in Iraq -- the biggest in the world -- will slash its numbers by two-thirds by the end of this year from its peak figure of over 16,000, the Amer...

Daily violence still mars Iraqi lives

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

"I thought I would die," Umm Khudair said softly, her face streaked with tears. The car bomb that ripped through a bird market in Baghdad a month ago remains vi...

Americans still divided over Iraq war: poll

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

A decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, Americans remain divided over the war, with a majority believing it was a mistake, according to a poll released Mond...

Qaeda group claims Iraq attack ahead of anniversary

Mar 17, 2013 (AFP)

An Al-Qaeda-linked group claimed a brazen attack on a ministry and a bombing in south Iraq left 10 people dead Sunday as a study said at least 112,000 civilians...

Ten years on, US officer's Iraq diary tells grim tale

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

US Lieutenant Timothy McLaughlin's Iraq diary is not an introspective journal, but 10 years after the invasion its terse, staccato account of a young man's war ...

Iraq Kurd town marks 25 years since deadly gas attack

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

Hundreds of people joined in sombre commemorations on Saturday for the 25th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's gassing of thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja...

Iraq's Kirkuk at heart of Arab-Kurd territory row

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

Violence-plagued, ethnically mixed and rich in oil, Kirkuk province stands at the heart of an Arab-Kurd dispute over territory in north Iraq that threatens the ...

Violent decade shatters dreams of Iraqi youth

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Yasmine wants a future free of violence and fear, but like many young Iraqis, 10 years of bloodshed have made her doubt she can find such a future in her home c...

Nine dead in blasts, assault on Iraq ministry

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Coordinated attacks involving a string of bombings and a brazen attempted assault on a ministry near the heavily-fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad killed ...

Ten years on, Iraq haunts US response to Syria, Iran

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Ten years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the searing memory of what became a deeply unpopular war has made Washington policy makers reluctant to use even li...

18 dead in blasts, assault on Iraq ministry

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

A coordinated string of bombings and a brazen assault on a ministry near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed 18 people on Thursday, in the Iraqi capit...

Iraqi Christians fear fate of departed Jews

Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)

After 10 years of attacks on Iraqi Christians, Monsignor Pios Cacha wonders if the ancient community's days are numbered. "Maybe we will follow in the steps of ...

Saddam nostalgia lives on in Iraq

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

A decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, years of violence and disdain for the country's current political class fuel nostalgia for Saddam Hussein -- the man...