IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

The US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein aimed to enshrine a liberal democracy in the heart of the Middle East but instead unleashed sectarian vi...

Kuwait urges Iraq action on markers after border riot

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Kuwait on Monday urged Iraq to allow work to continue to repair markers on their common border after a number of Iraqis rioted near the site and disrupted the U...

Iraq attacks kill 12, wound 165

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks across Iraq on Monday killed 12 people, including three people who died in a suicide bombing at a police station near a school that also wounded 165 oth...

Iraq suicide bomber kills three, wounds 100

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

A suicide bomber blew up a car in northern Iraq on Monday, killing two policemen and a woman, and wounding 100 other people, many of them schoolchildren, offici...

Gunmen kill protest organiser in north Iraq

Mar 10, 2013 (AFP)

Gunmen killed an anti-government protest organiser in north Iraq on Sunday, while a city council member and a farmer were shot dead in other attacks, police and...

Iraq minister quits after protester killed

Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)

Iraqi Agriculture Minister Ezzedine al-Dawleh resigned on Friday after a protester was killed in the north, the second minister from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bl...

US wasted billions in Iraq with few results: inspector

Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)

After invading Iraq ten years ago, the United States spent $60 billion on a vast reconstruction effort that left behind few successes and a litany of failures, ...

Iraq ambush kills 48 'unarmed, wounded' Syrian soldiers

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

Armed men from Syria carried out an ambush in western Iraq on Monday killing 48 unarmed Syrian soldiers being transferred to the border and nine Iraqi guards, t...

Inquiry opens into claims British troops murdered Iraqis

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

A public inquiry into claims that British troops murdered and tortured Iraqi detainees nine years ago was shown graphic photographs of alleged victims as it ope...

Iraq death toll falls but violence still high: AFP

Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)

The death toll from attacks in Iraq fell in February from January, but more than 200 were still killed for the second month in a row, AFP data showed on Friday....

Baghdad beats: Iraqis look to revive traditional music

Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)

Hussein Abdullah clutches his oud, long the symbol of Iraqi music, and sighs. "Iraqis do not care for their musical heritage," he laments. "On TV, all you see a...

Iraq finance minister announces resignation at demo

Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)

Iraqi Finance Minister Rafa al-Essawi announced his resignation on Friday at an anti-government protest, ramping up a conflict between his secular Sunni-backed ...

Iraq attacks kill 26 people

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

Bombings in and around Baghdad, including two car bombs near a football field, killed at least 23 people on Thursday, while three people were shot dead in north...

Iraqi Airways resumes Kuwait flights after two decades

Feb 27, 2013 (AFP)

An Iraqi Airways plane landed in Kuwait City on Wednesday for the first time since Iraq's invasion of the emirate in August 1990, after a commercial dispute was...

Ten years on, Blair admits Iraq is not as he'd hoped

Feb 26, 2013 (AFP)

Former British prime minister Tony Blair admitted on Tuesday that the situation in Iraq is "not nearly" what he hoped it would be when Britain joined the US-led...

Outside View: Genocide in Fallujah

Feb 25, 2013 (UPI)

The unfolding tragedy in the Iraqi city of Fallujah seems to have slipped off the international radar screen as the focus of the global community drifts from Sy...

Iraq wants rehabilitated Iran 'terror group' out

Feb 19, 2013 (AFP)

An Iranian exile group attacked in Iraq this month has moved from terrorism lists to international good graces, but Baghdad wants it out over its opposition to ...

Iraq's turmoil likely to grow as Shiite leader Sadr bows out

Feb 18, 2013 (UPI)

As Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki battles to recapture a third town seized by al-Qaida insurgents amid fears Iraq is sliding toward sectarian civil war, the dec...

Tensions in Iraq are 'troubling': US general

Feb 14, 2013 (AFP)

Sectarian tensions and political discord in Iraq signal a "troubling" trend in the country since US troops withdrew a year ago, a top American general warned on...

Iraqi beauticians conquer fear at Baghdad festival

Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)

Long targeted during the country's sectarian war, Iraq's best hairdressers and beauticians have held a festival in central Baghdad to show their talents, a symb...