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Nine dead in Iraq as Qaeda claims attacks
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq on Wednesday killed nine people, including a general, as Al-Qaeda's front group claimed to have carried out nearly 150 strikes...
US welcomes resumed relocation of Camp Ashraf
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
The United States on Wednesday welcomed renewed efforts to relocate residents of a camp in Iraq that for years has housed members of an Iranian opposition group...
Six soldiers killed in Iraq violence
Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)
Bombings and gun attacks targeting the Iraqi army left six soldiers, including a colonel and a lieutenant, dead in and north of the capital on Tuesday, security...
S.Africa's Tutu snubs event over 'indefensible' Blair
Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)
Peace icon Desmond Tutu on Tuesday said he would boycott an event in protest at sharing a stage with former British leader Tony Blair over his "morally indefens...
Iraq election chief gets prison sentence for graft
Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's outgoing election commission chief told AFP that he and two other senior election officials were found guilty of graft on Tuesday and handed suspended on...
Iraq minister quits over PM 'interference'
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi Communications Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi told AFP he quit his post on Monday, accusing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of "political interference" in ...
Four dead in Iraq attacks on Shiites
Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)
Attacks on Shiites in Baghdad and north of the capital killed four people on Friday, after the conclusion of the Eid festival and as Al-Qaeda claimed a series o...
US 'significant' in Iraq despite troop exit: Dempsey
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
Top US military officer General Martin Dempsey insisted Tuesday during a quick trip to Iraq that Washington was still playing an important role there, eight mon...
Attacks in Iraq killed 409 people in Ramadan: AFP tally
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed at least 409 people and wounded 975 during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, according to an AFP tally based on se...
US hopes for stronger military ties with Iraq: general
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Eight months since American troops withdrew from Iraq, Baghdad has signalled a readiness to bolster military ties with the US, America's top general said ahead ...
Iraq says not helping Iran avoid sanctions
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq insisted on Monday that its trade with neighbouring Iran was above board, and denied reports that it was helping the Islamic republic skirt sanctions by sm...
Ramadan game brings tinderbox Iraq city together
Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)
Every Ramadan, as they have for decades, the diverse residents of Kirkuk gathered to play a game called Siniyah, which remains one of the few apolitical traditi...
Deadly Iraq attacks overshadow Eid preparations
Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)
A spate of attacks that killed 82 people in Iraq overshadowed preparations Friday to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid warnings insurgents ...
53 killed in pre-Eid Iraq attacks
Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)
A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Thursday amid warnings that insurgents would mount deadly attacks ahead of the end of the holy Muslim...
Iraq bombings and shooting kill 10 people: officials
Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)
Four bombings and a shooting killed 10 people and wounded 36 others in Iraq on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. In the deadliest attack, a car bo...
Iraq attacks leave four dead
Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)
Shootings and bombings in Iraq on Tuesday killed four people, including an anti-corruption investigator, security and medical officials said. In the restive nor...
Ramadan criers on the decline in Iraq
Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)
Beating a small drum and walking through the streets of his neighbourhood in the early hours, Luay Sabbah shouts, "Suhoor! Suhoor!", plying a craft that is incr...
Iraq attacks kill 14
Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)
Gunmen allegedly affiliated with Al-Qaeda on Sunday executed eight young Shiites near a northern Iraq town hit by shootings a day earlier, while six people died...
Baghdad at 1,250: a far cry from past glories
Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)
Baghdad was once the capital of an empire and the centre of the Islamic world, but at 1,250 years old, the Iraqi city is a far cry from its past glories after b...
Australian fined over Iraq oil-for-food kickbacks
Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)
The former managing director of an Australian wheat firm that paid sanctions-busting bribes to secure UN oil-for-food programme contracts in Iraq was fined Aus$...
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