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Britain to close consulate in Iraq's Basra
Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)
Britain will close its full consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra as part of government austerity measures, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday....
Iraq attacks kill at least 10
Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)
A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad on Monday killed at least 10 people, while a prisoner on death row escaped fr...
HRW urges immediate moratorium on Iraq executions
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in Iraq saying the country had emerged as a leading user of capital puni...
Iraqi judge among seven killed in attacks
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
Shootings and bombings in central and north Iraq on Tuesday left seven people dead, including a judge and the bodyguard of an MP, security and medical officials...
Russia, Iraq eye new partnership on PM's visit
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
Russia on Tuesday sought to take ties with Iraq to a new level as it hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the first time in four years with an eye on ...
Baghdad film festival ends on sour note
Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)
Once a sign of Iraq's cultural revival after decades of conflict, the Baghdad International Film Festival ended on a sour note Sunday with complaints of poor or...
Maliki takes over Iraq's security services
Oct 08, 2012 (UPI)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a longtime friend of Tehran, has systematically infiltrated his operatives into the country's intelligence services, rebui...
Iraqis look back into a royal past
Oct 07, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqis are now able to open a window onto the past showing a country that was once ruled by royalty during a period of relative calm in its turbulent history. C...
Iraq bomb hits private security convoy, kills four
Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)
A car bomb hit a private security convoy in Baghdad on Thursday, killing four people and wounding at least nine others, security and medical officials said. The...
US urges EU to shelter Iran dissidents stranded in Iraq
Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)
A US official urged European nations Wednesday to offer shelter to Iranian dissidents housed for decades in a camp in Iraq and last week removed from a Washingt...
Wave of Iraq attacks kills at least 33
Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)
Militants carried out bombings and shootings in 10 cities and towns in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 33 people and wounding 106, in the latest wave of deadly...
Blair could have prevented Iraq war: Annan
Sep 29, 2012 (AFP)
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was the only person capable of turning George Bush against the 2003 Iraq invasion, ex-United Nations chief Kofi Annan c...
Iraqi forces hunt dozens of escaped 'Qaeda' inmates
Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi forces on Friday hunted for dozens of convicted Al-Qaeda militants who escaped during a prison uprising north of Baghdad that left 16 security force membe...
Iraq PM declines invitation to visit Turkey
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has declined an invitation from his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Ankara, the Iraqi premier's spokesman ...
Iraq forces arrest militant as Sept. deaths top 200
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi forces have arrested an insurgent allegedly involved in more than 30 attacks, a security spokesman said Thursday, as violence brought the number of people...
Militants seize control of Iraq prison
Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)
Militants seized control of a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Thursday night after fierce clashes with guards that left at least two dead and allowed some...
Iraq archives chief moves to seal Saddam-era files
Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)
The terror of Saddam Hussein's secret police has lived on long after his fall through their millions of reports, which are still dragged up by Iraqi politicians...
Bombings and shootings kill eight in Iraq
Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)
Bombings and shootings mainly targeting Iraqi security forces killed eight people on Wednesday, among them a senior police officer, security and medical officia...
Iraq attacks kill six, including a brigadier
Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)
Attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed at least six people, among them a police brigadier general and two soldiers, security and medical officials said. Gunmen using ...
US Senate approves envoys to Iraq, Pakistan
Sep 22, 2012 (AFP)
The US Senate on Saturday approved new American ambassadors to Iraq and Pakistan, both veteran diplomats who will take over as anti-Western protests sweep throu...
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