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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 196 weeks 1 day 14 hours 2 minutes ago
Iraq's first lady escaped unharmed Sunday from a bomb attack in downtown Baghdad that struck her motorcade, injuring four body guards.
President Jalal Talabani's wife, Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, was headed to the city's central National Theater to attend a cultural festival when her motorcade was hit in...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 134 weeks 6 days 9 hours 16 minutes ago
A giant dust storm that has raged through Iraq and other Middle East countries for more than a week has been imaged by satellite.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 141 weeks 11 hours 55 minutes ago
Reuters cameraman Ibrahim Jassam has been held since September. The U.S. military rejected a court order to release him, saying he is a 'high security threat.' No evidence has been presented.
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 221 weeks 2 days 12 hours 9 minutes ago
The pupils who had been too scared to attend class are now returning.
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 157 weeks 5 days 1 hour 6 minutes ago
Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians.
The move will deprive American diplomats of their main protection...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 231 weeks 20 hours 37 minutes ago
Senior Northern Ireland politicians help at Finnish talks aimed at ending sectarian clashes in Iraq.
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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 226 weeks 1 day 13 hours 39 minutes ago
The young American Army medic would not stop bleeding.
He had been put on a powerful regimen of antibiotics by doctors aboard the hospital ship Comfort in the Persian Gulf. But something was wrong.
He was in shock and bleeding from small pricks where nurses had placed intravenous...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 165 weeks 3 days 10 hours 29 minutes ago
Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been indicted and a sixth was negotiating a plea with prosecutors for a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead and became an anti-American rallying cry for insurgents, people close to the case said Friday.
Prosecutors obtained the indictment late Thursday...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 166 weeks 2 days 19 hours 14 minutes ago
A rocket slammed into a compound near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone today, killing two people in an attack that seemed likely to reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
Late Friday, a rocket hit Camp Victory, the...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 248 weeks 2 days 15 hours 24 minutes ago
AP - A new video of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader released on Saturday mocks President Bush and U.S. legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group's fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.
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submitted by Adam for team Iraq news 207 weeks 5 days 7 hours 54 minutes ago
AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008, at least 3,960 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,224 died as a...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 206 weeks 4 days 8 hours 21 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is widely expected to extend a ceasefire by his Mehdi Army militia on Friday, a decision Washington says is important to maintain security gains.
