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Cockfighting in Iraq: a different kind of battle
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq is no stranger to battles, but this is not one fought with rifles and rockets: when the bell sounds, trainers release cocks Daqduqa and Sammam into the rin...
With US gone, Iran new enemy for Iraq insurgents
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Sunni insurgents who battled American soldiers in Iraq until their long-time enemy withdrew last year have turned their wrath on a new target: Shiite Iran. The ...
Iraqis still wait for realisation of 2003 dreams
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqis thought a better life was at hand when Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003, but after nine years of violence and suffering, many are still waiting...
Two anti-Qaeda fighters, farmer killed in Iraq
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Two members of a militia fighting Al-Qaeda and a farmer were killed Monday in attacks in northern Iraq, police officials said. In Tuz Khurmatu, a town in Salahe...
Iraq Kurd leader accuses PM Maliki of 'dictatorship'
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, Kurdish leader Massud Barzani charged in an int...
Iraqi head of controversial TV station to be tried
Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)
The head of Arrai TV, famed as the mouthpiece of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi before his death, will appear in an Iraqi court on May 13 on charges of "stealing ...
Iraq fugitive VP arrives in Saudi
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
Fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, accused of running a death squad, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after a four-day visit to neighbouring Qa...
Bomb kills TV presenter in central Iraq: spokesman
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
A "sticky bomb" killed an television presenter working for a local station in Salaheddin province of central Iraq, a provincial spokesman said on Tuesday. Kamir...
Saudi, Qatar media attacks Iraq PM
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
Saudi and Qatari newspapers on Tuesday lashed out at Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over his implicit criticism of Saudi Arabia and Qatar for their calls ...
Iraq calls on Qatar to hand over fugitive VP
Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq said on Monday that Qatar hosting fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was "unacceptable" and called on Doha to hand him over, a demand he said was unc...
Iraqi woman slain in US buried in Najaf
Mar 31, 2012 (AFP)
Dozens of Iraqis participated in the funeral of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi woman who was beaten to death in California in what police have said may be a hate crim...
Kuwait returns 44 detained fishermen to Iraq
Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)
Kuwait on Wednesday returned to Iraq 44 fishermen and six vessels seized for crossing into its territorial waters, the interior ministry said. After the emir, S...
Baghdad spruces up for Arab summit
Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)
With renovated hotels and tighter security, Baghdad is putting on its best face for this week's Arab summit in what Iraq has billed as its re-emergence as a reg...
US slams deadly attack on Iraqi woman in California
Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)
The US State Department said Monday the United States had "no tolerance for wanton acts of violence" like that in which an Iraqi woman was beaten to death in an...
Iraq president calls for unity meet in April
Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called for a national conference on April 5 aimed at bridging sharp political differences in the country, a statement from hi...
Displaced Iraqis still suffering from sectarian war
Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)
Talib al-Ajami stands near his makeshift house in a garbage and sewage-filled slum in north Baghdad holding a torn, creased letter from insurgents who drove him...
Iraq insists VP's dead bodyguard not tortured
Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)
Claims by Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president that his bodyguard was tortured while in custody were denied on Thursday by authorities, who insisted he died of ...
Iraq ups security after attacks, ahead of Arab summit
Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's security forces locked down key routes in Baghdad on Wednesday after the country suffered its deadliest violence in two months in the run-up to a landmar...
50 dead in Iraq attacks ahead of Arab summit
Mar 20, 2012 (AFP)
A wave of attacks killed 50 people in more than a dozen Iraqi cities on Tuesday, the anniversary of the US-led invasion of the country and just days before Bagh...
Iraq PM 'monopolising power:' Kurdish leader
Mar 20, 2012 (AFP)
Kurd leader Massud Barzani hinted on Tuesday at a possible break with Iraq's unity government, complaining that premier Nuri al-Maliki was monopolising power an...
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