IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Sadrists flood Basra in million-strong demo

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

Around a million loyalists of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rallied in south Iraq Monday decrying poor services and rampant graft on the ninth anniversary of the US-le...

Iraq Sadrists free US captive after nine months

Mar 17, 2012 (AFP)

The movement loyal to anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq on Saturday handed over to the United Nations a man it identified as a captive former American sold...

Qaeda claims deadly west Iraq police attack

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq said on Friday that it carried out a shooting spree in western Iraq this month that left 27 police dead, including two officers k...

Iraqi 'emos' victims of brutal killings

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

Iraqi teenagers widely perceived to be gay are being brutally killed in Baghdad with Shiite militias distributing lists of targets warning of further assaults, ...

Women deplore restrictions in male-dominated Iraq

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

Iraqi women sharply criticised societal restrictions placed upon them in events marking International Women's Day on Thursday, arguing they were second-class ci...

17 killed in Iraq attacks

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

Attacks in Iraq killed 17 people on Wednesday, including 14 who died in twin bombings in the northern town of Tal Afar, just weeks before the country is due to ...

Sunni tribes mete out justice to curb Iraq unrest

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Sunni Arab tribes in central and north Iraq, long home to violent extremists such as Al-Qaeda, are taking a new approach against unrest: fining and expelling th...

13 held after Iraq attacks kill 27 police

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Iraqi authorities arrested at least 13 alleged Al-Qaeda fighters on Tuesday in connection with a shooting spree that left 27 policemen dead, including two offic...

'Qaeda fighters' kill 27 police in west Iraq

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen, some wearing army uniforms, raged through a western Iraq city Monday in a pre-dawn shooting spree that killed 27 policemen, including...

Outside View: U.S. and Camp Liberty

Mar 02, 2012 (UPI)

The mullahs ruling Iran have had little reason to be happy with the United Nations in recent weeks, being forced to cope with crippling sanctions because of the...

150 Iraqis killed in February attacks: ministries

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

The number of Iraqis killed in February almost matched the death toll recorded the previous month but the number of people wounded in attacks rose, officials fi...

Bombs kill six as Iraq says 70,000 dead 2004-2011

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

Car bombs in Iraq killed six people on Wednesday as authorities released figures showing nearly 70,000 people died in violence from 2004 to 2011, markedly fewer...

Iraq car bombs kill six

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

Car bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Wednesday killed six people, including three security force members, and wounded at least 10, security and medical off...

Iraq MPs face anger over armoured cars

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

The decision of MPs last week to spend $50 million on their own armoured cars on a day that dozens of people were killed in a wave of attacks has drawn sharp cr...

Iraq film festival aims to promote human rights

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

A human rights film festival held in Baghdad is aiming to educate and mobilise citizens at a time when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government has been accus...

Iraq town seeks shift from 'terrorism' to tourism

Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)

Suspected of being a biological weapons site under Saddam Hussein and later an Al-Qaeda stronghold, an Iraqi town wants to return to its previous status as a ce...

Iraqis demonstrate for reforms in Baghdad

Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)

Dozens of Iraqis demonstrated for reforms in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday, the eve of the first anniversary of mass protests in which 16 people were killed...

'Qaeda' attacks kill 42, wound over 250 in Iraq

Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)

A wave of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 42 people on Thursday, in what Iraq's parliament speaker said was an attempt to derail an Arab League summi...

Iraq to approve new Saudi ambassador

Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq will approve the nomination of a non-resident Saudi ambassador, the Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday, terming it a positive sign for the normalisation o...

Fugitive Iraq VP says employees jailed in secret

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said his bodyguards and other employees are being held in secret prisons and subjected to torture, in an intervi...