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Iraq PM calls for early elections
Jun 27, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called for early elections, a statement said on Wednesday, in the latest move in a series of political crises that has s...
Iraq gives media 45 days to comply with regulations
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's interior ministry has given dozens of media outlets 45 days to comply with Communications and Media Commission (CMC) regulations over licences, or they w...
Iraq says it curbs media including BBC, VoA
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
An Iraqi Communications and Media Commission official said Monday it had decided to restrict 39 media outlets including the BBC and Voice of America, but some o...
Iraq faces painful legacy of mass graves
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq wants to put the legacy of murderous dictator Saddam Hussein behind it, but faces a huge need for specialists to excavate mass graves thought to contain at...
Iraq cuts US archaeology cooperation over archives
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq has cut cooperation with the United States on archaeological exploration because Washington has not returned Iraq's Jewish archives, Tourism and Archaeolog...
Two Iraq bombings kill 12 people
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
A car bomb south of Baghdad killed eight people and wounded 32 on Monday, while a roadside bomb north of the capital killed four people and wounded seven, secur...
Saddam Hussein's nephew seeks asylum in Austria
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
A nephew of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has requested asylum in Austria after being picked up by police in a routine identity check, the interior ministr...
Bombings, shooting kill nine in Iraq
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
Two roadside bombs killed at least six people on the outskirts of Baghdad Friday while gunmen shot dead three policemen at a city checkpoint, officials said, in...
France quizzes Iraq official on Iran dissident 'torture'
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
French police on Thursday held an Iraqi official for questioning after a member of the exiled Iranian opposition filed a complaint against him alleging torture ...
Iraq parliament stops work until blast walls put back
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament said on Thursday that he had ordered a halt to all work at the legislature until concrete blast walls removed in recent days...
Iraqi Kurd editor of pro-Israel magazine missing
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist and ...
Iraq shootings, bombing kill six
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
Shootings and a bombing killed six people in Iraq on Tuesday, including four police in the main northern city of Mosul, security and medical officials said. Wit...
Obama's pick for Iraq ambassador withdraws
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Iraq has withdrawn from the running, a US official said Monday, following claims of impropriety and oppositio...
Anti-Shiite suicide bombing kills 22 in Iraq
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
A suicide bomber killed 22 people at a Shiite gathering in central Iraq on Monday, officials said, in the latest in a string of attacks against the Shiite major...
Iraq car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims kill 32
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital killed at least 32 people on Saturday, officials said, marring commemorations for a revered Shiite imam...
Murdoch pushed Blair on Iraq: ex-media chief
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Rupert Murdoch took part in an "over-crude" attempt by US Republicans to push Tony Blair into action before the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minis...
Thousands pack Baghdad for Shiite commemoration
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed northern Baghdad on Saturday for the peak of commemorations of the death of a revered Shiite imam, amid tight security meas...
Shiite pilgrims flock to Baghdad shrine despite attacks
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of Shiite pilgrims headed on foot to a north Baghdad shrine on Thursday to commemorate the death of a revered Shiite imam, undaunted by waves of attac...
Iraq attacks kill 72 during Shiite pilgrimage
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shiite religious commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 72 people and w...
Republicans urge Obama to dump Iraq envoy nominee
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Six Republican senators urged US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to withdraw his nominee for ambassador to Baghdad, saying recent allegations of impropriety...
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