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Iraq, Kuwait ask UN to repair border markers
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
Kuwait and Iraq have jointly asked the United Nations to start repairing border markers, delayed for years due to Iraqi objections, a senior Kuwaiti official sa...
US funds may have helped Iraq insurgents: watchdog
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
Some US commanders believe funds available for relief and reconstruction during the country's war in Iraq may have ended up benefiting insurgents, a report rele...
Iraq violence kills seven: officials
Apr 30, 2012 (AFP)
Violence killed seven people in Iraq on Monday, including a mother and her three children who were stabbed to death in their home and an army major killed by a ...
Top Iraq politicians demand greater democracy
Apr 28, 2012 (AFP)
Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy i...
Mother, three children gunned down in Iraq
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
A Sunni mother and her three children were shot dead in an apparent sectarian attack in a village in central Iraq, after twin bombings killed eight people, most...
Twelve killed in Iraq bombings
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
A suicide car bombing near a cafe and another bomb attack inside it killed eight people in central Iraq on Thursday, while bomb attacks in Baghdad killed four o...
Iraq's Sadr to meet Kurdistan president
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will meet Kurdistan chief Massud Barzani Thursday in a bid to resolve a crisis between the autonomous region and Ba...
Shakespeare tragedy set amid Iraq strife
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
Romeo is Shiite, Juliet Sunni, and they must contend not only with warring families but a country torn by conflict and sectarian strife: this is the story of "R...
Iraq cuts anti-Qaeda militia pay
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
Most of Iraq's remaining 40,000 anti-Qaeda militiamen have seen their pay cut by 20 percent this year following a decision by parliament, an aide to Prime Minis...
Iraq PM must not obtain F-16s: Kurdistan chief
Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)
Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, said he opposes the sale of F-16 warplanes to Iraq while Nuri al-Maliki is premier, as he fears th...
Bombings kill three as Iraq governor targeted
Apr 21, 2012 (AFP)
Bombs exploded in two minibuses in Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people and wounding at least 12, while a bomb attack on a governor's convoy wounded two gu...
Iraqi Kurd leader says won't allow PKK to operate from north
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region vowed Friday he would not allow Kurdish separatists to stage attacks in Turkey from northern Iraq, local media re...
Iraq electoral body's mandate extended by 3 months
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's parliament on Thursday voted to extend by three months the terms of nine members of the electoral commission, including its chief and a colleague detaine...
Iraq attacks kill at least 38
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
A wave of apparently coordinated bombing and shooting attacks in seven different provinces across Iraq killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 170 on Th...
Iraq's many security units hurt war on militants
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
The multitude of Iraqi security services and the competition and varying orders between them hurts efforts to fight militants here, high-ranking interior minist...
Iraq orders 15 Saddam-era officials to be freed
Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)
The Iraqi High Tribunal has ordered the release of 15 officials from Saddam Hussein's regime, after finding no charges to bring against them, an official in the...
Sadr movement visits Hezbollah prisoner in Baghdad
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
A delegation from radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement on Monday visited a suspected militant of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement being held in a Baghda...
Iraq electoral commission chief released on bail
Apr 15, 2012 (AFP)
The head of Iraq's electoral commission said after his release on Sunday that his detention on suspicion of corruption was due to just one of many often-frivolo...
Electoral officials' arrest inflames Iraq tension
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
The arrest of Iraqi electoral commission officials has inflamed political tensions here, drawing accusations on Friday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki aims t...
Iraq electoral officials jailed until Sunday
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
A judge from Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog has ordered the head of the nation's electoral commission and another member of the panel to be jailed until Sunday...
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