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111 killed in Iraq's deadliest day in two years
Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)
A wave of violence killed 111 people across Iraq on Monday, the country's deadliest day in two and a half years, after Al-Qaeda warned it would seek to retake t...
Iraq attacks kill 17 as Al-Qaeda posts warning
Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)
Bombings across Iraq killed 17 people on Sunday, the country's deadliest day in nearly three weeks, as Al-Qaeda warned it would target judges and prosecutors, a...
Iraq: Chevron deal with Kurds makes waves
Jul 20, 2012 (UPI)
Chevron's oil exploration deal with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave will doubtless incense Baghdad, which seeks to control all of Iraq's energy riches, an...
Iraq PM for 'militarisation': Kurd official
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
The spokesman for Iraq's Kurdish regional president sharply criticised national premier Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday for allegedly militarising Iraqi society and u...
Two Iraqi journalists 'killed in Damascus'
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
The bodies of two Iraqi journalists, who were stabbed and shot dead in Damascus, were handed over at a border post with Syria on Monday, officials said. "Two Ir...
Nine killed in north Iraq checkpoint attacks
Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)
Gunmen killed nine people, including seven members of the security forces, on Saturday in separate attacks on checkpoints in north Iraq, security and medical of...
Salafists stage sit-in for Tunisians held in Iraq
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
Hardline Salafists on Wednesday joined a protest by parents of 22 Tunisians detained in Iraq to protest the government's failure to repatriate them, an AFP jour...
Opponents decry nepotism in Iraq Kurd council
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region was accused of nepotism and sharply criticised Tuesday for naming his son head of the region's new national secur...
Iraq gun and bomb attacks kill three
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Gun and bomb attacks north of Baghdad on Monday killed three people including two anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, security and medical officials said. In the deadlies...
US to Iran exiles: quit Iraq to get off terror list
Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)
The United States on Friday again urged members of an exiled Iranian opposition group to leave their long-time base in Iraq, saying a move could facilitate thei...
11 killed in new Iraq attacks ahead of Shiite rituals
Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)
A car bomb blamed on Al-Qaeda at a market in central Iraq killed eight people on Wednesday and three others were murdered in Baghdad, the latest in a spike in u...
Four killed in anti-Shiite Iraq car bombs
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Near-simultaneous car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of the shrine city of Karbala killed four people Tuesday morning, the latest victims of a...
Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish hideouts in northern Iraq
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes have struck several locations in northern Iraq believed to be Kurdish rebel hideouts, the army said Monday. The strikes follow a June 19 rebel...
Iraq attacks kill at least 282 in June: AFP
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
Attacks in Iraq killed at least 282 people in June, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources, though official figures put the death toll ...
Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an institute that carries...
Three dead in Iraq unrest: officials
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
A criminal court judge was among three people killed in gun and bomb attacks north of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, security and medical officials said, in the l...
Iraq attacks kill 11 people
Jun 30, 2012 (AFP)
Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed four police, two soldiers and five civilians on Saturday, security and medical officials said. Two roadside bombs at a che...
Car bomb leaves residents of Baghdad slum homeless
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
A car bomb tore through the north Baghdad slum where Jihad Hussein and his wife lived, reducing their house to rubble and leaving them no choice but to take she...
Iraqi Kurds crown first Miss Kurdistan
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists ...
Car bomb leaves Baghdad slum-dwellers homeless
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
A car bomb tore through the north Baghdad slum where Jihad Hussein and his wife lived, reducing their house to rubble and leaving them no choice but to take she...
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