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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 18 weeks 15 hours 39 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 Grace for team Iraq news 52 weeks 6 days 22 hours 13 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 48 weeks 15 hours 16 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 70 weeks 1 day 17 hours 1 minute 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 29 weeks 4 days 9 hours 31 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 28 weeks 3 days 9 hours 58 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.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 4 weeks 22 hours ago
Iraq's foreign minister insisted Sunday that any security deal with the United States must contain a "very clear timeline" for the departure of U.S. troops. A suicide bomber struck north of Baghdad, killing at least five people including an American soldier.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours 10 minutes ago
In the final days of his campaign to bring Iraq under control, Gen. David H. Petraeus sat in his office at the American Embassy here looking drawn, exhausted, and more than a few years older than when he took command 18 months ago.
More than once as...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 11 weeks 5 days 1 hour 47 minutes ago
Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, ...
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 16 weeks 3 days 9 hours 53 minutes ago
The physician in charge of the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition."Given that we are having more and more compensation...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Iraq news 69 weeks 4 days 23 hours 33 minutes ago
Dick Cheney gets a distant taste of what the troops he sent to war encounter up close...
From the story: Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Iraq remains a dangerous place, a point underscored by a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. embassy where...(more)
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