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Iraq ups anti-Qaeda militia pay to appease demos
Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi officials said Tuesday they would up the salaries of Sunni militiamen who fought Al-Qaeda during the country's brutal sectarian war, the latest bid to app...
Iraq attacks kill three
Jan 28, 2013 (AFP)
Attacks in Iraq killed three people and wounded six others on Monday, as the country grapples with more than a month of anti-government rallies and a political ...
U.S. seeks to rescue Iraq's Maliki with $6.2 billion Apache deal
Jan 28, 2013 (UPI)
The United States wants to sell Iraq 24 state-of-the-art AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and 500 AGM-114 Hellfire missiles in a $6.2 billion deal to help Prime...
Iraq MPs appeal for calm after protesters killed
Jan 27, 2013 (AFP)
Iraqi MPs assigned to investigate the killing of eight anti-government protesters by troops appealed for calm on a visit to the town on Sunday and pledged to pu...
Iraq MPs vote to bar Maliki from third term
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
Iraq's parliament adopted a measure on Saturday that would bar Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki from a third term, a move his allies quickly dismissed as unconstit...
Iraq troops snatched as dead protesters buried
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
Gunmen killed two soldiers and snatched three more west of Baghdad on Saturday in apparent revenge attacks as mourners buried anti-government protesters that tr...
Army kills six as Iraq demos call for PM to quit
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
Soldiers fired on an anti-government rally west of Baghdad on Friday, killing six demonstrators, the first deaths in weeks of increasingly angry protests callin...
Iraq suicide bomb at Shiite mosque kills 42
Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)
A suicide bomber made his way into a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad and blew himself up in the middle of a funeral on Wednesday, killing 42 people and leaving c...
Spate of Iraq attacks kill 26
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed 26 people and wounded dozens more on Tuesday, shattering a relative calm after a spate of de...
Iraq: Jihadists fight off Maliki's army, hold onto western cities
Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is having a tough time trying to dislodge al-Qaida forces who hold much of the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi because his ...
Iraq opens Christian centre in ethnically-mixed city
Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)
Authorities on Sunday opened what they billed as the first Christian cultural centre in Iraq in a decade, despite a dramatic decline in the country's once signi...
New Iraq parliament up in air amid political row
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
For weeks, Iraqi MPs have been locked in a political crisis that has stalled progress on key decisions including one affecting their own offices in a future par...
22 killed in third day of deadly Iraq violence
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
A spate of bombings targeting Shiite Muslims across Iraq killed 22 people on Thursday, the latest in a spike in unrest amid weeks of anti-government protests an...
Wave of Iraq attacks kills 42
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed 42 people on Wednesday as hundreds attended the funeral of a Sunni MP who died in a suicide attack a day earlier, as a ...
Suicide bomb kills Sunni Iraqi MP, six others
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
A militant posing as a construction worker killed a Sunni Iraqi MP and six others on Tuesday by wrapping his arms around the lawmaker before blowing himself up,...
Hundreds back Maliki amid calls for Iraq PM to quit
Jan 12, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in central Baghdad on Saturday to back Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, as the latest in weeks of anti-government rallies in Sun...
Thousands of Iraq Sunnis in angry anti-Maliki demos
Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands of Sunni Muslims took to the streets of Baghdad and other parts of Iraq on Friday to decry the alleged targeting of their minority, in rallies hardeni...
Nine killed in spate of Iraq attacks
Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)
A spate of bombings and shootings in Baghdad and a restive province north of the capital killed nine people on Thursday morning, security and medical officials ...
Iraq: Army's Fallujah push risks inflaming Sunni uprising
Jan 09, 2013 (UPI)
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is poised to unleash his army in a major offensive to recapture the western city of Fallujah seized by al-Qaida forces Dec. 30 in...
US contractor pays Iraqis $5 mn over Abu Ghraib abuse
Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)
A US defense contractor accused of helping torture prisoners at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid former detainees more than $5 million to settle a law...
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