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Baghdad pet market bombs kill five: officials
May 18, 2012 (AFP)
Three near-simultaneous bomb blasts at a pet market in east Baghdad killed five people on Friday, officials said, just hours after an attack in the city's south...
US provided intelligence for Turkish air raid: official
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
American spy drones provided intelligence to Turkey's air force for an errant bombing raid in December that killed 35 civilians instead of Kurdish separatists, ...
Outside View: When brother kills brother
May 15, 2012 (UPI)
It was Feb. 25, 1991. The sun was yet to rise on the second day of the Gulf War's ground offensive. Just before daybreak, there was a surprise encounter between...
Witnesses testify in Iraq VP death squad trial
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
Victims' families and witnesses on Tuesday accused Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi of masterminding killings at the opening of his trial in absentia on ch...
Iraq VP masterminded killings: trial witnesses
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
An Iraqi court heard on Tuesday testimony from witnesses claiming Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi masterminded killings of his opponents, charges he has dismiss...
Iraq bombings kill seven
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
Seven people were killed in attacks in central and northern Iraq on Monday, including five who died in a spate of bombings in the former insurgent bastion of Fa...
US insists Iraq police training not being scrapped
May 13, 2012 (AFP)
The US embassy in Baghdad insisted on Sunday it had no plans to shut down a multi-billion-dollar police training programme that it said was a "vital part" of it...
Iraq's Kurds fire back in dispute with Iran over Mossad
May 12, 2012 (AFP)
The government of Iraq's Kurdish region fired back on Saturday over allegations by Iranian diplomats and officials that Kurdistan was playing host to Israeli in...
Iraq's fugitive VP has medical checks in Turkey
May 11, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, has undergone "routine" medical checks in Tu...
Famed Shiite clerics meet in wax in Iraq
May 11, 2012 (AFP)
Some of the most famed Shiite clerics of modern times have gathered together in a modest room under a religious school in Najaf in central Iraq -- as wax figure...
New delay for Iraq VP death squad trial
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
The trial of Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was delayed again on Thursday by a row over the venue, this time until May 15, a day after Turkey said it wou...
Contractors spearhead effort to train Iraqi forces
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Explosions throw up clouds of smoke near Iraqi soldiers with armoured vehicles, who check for casualties, spot enemy forces in the desert ahead of them and then...
Twin attacks kill four in central Iraq
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
Insurgents killed four people, including a man and his son, in two attacks in Diyala province in central Iraq on Wednesday, police and medical officials said. "...
Turkey refuses to extradite Iraqi vice-president: deputy PM
May 09, 2012 (AFP)
Turkey will not extradite Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad, a senior official ...
Lawyer who defends Iran activists jailed
May 09, 2012 (UPI)
Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who has defended political and human rights activists condemned to death, has himself been sentenced to nine years behind b...
Interpol issues Red Notice for arrest of Iraqi VP
May 08, 2012 (AFP)
Interpol said Tuesday it had issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on suspicion of "guiding and f...
Kurds boycott Iraq cabinet meet in disputed city
May 08, 2012 (AFP)
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Tuesday that Kirkuk had an Iraqi identity during a cabinet meet boycotted by Kurdish ministers whose autonomous region la...
Iraq court orders Hezbollah commander freed: lawyer
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
An Iraqi court on Monday ruled that a Hezbollah commander accused of plotting the killing of five US soldiers in January 2007 should be released from custody ov...
Iraq Kurd leader warns against culture of violence
May 04, 2012 (AFP)
The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Friday he fears a return to a culture of violence, the latest in a series of remarks critical of Prime Mi...
Venue appeal delays Iraq VP death squad case
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
The trial in absentia of Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was delayed a week on Thursday after his lawyers called for it to be held in a special court as h...
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