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An Iranian Embassy convoy came under fire in Baghdad, wounding two Iranian diplomats and two other embassy staff, a spokesman said Friday. An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Iraqi soldiers exchanged fire with guards in an argument that broke out when members of the convoy failed to produce...
BAGHDAD (AP) - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has offered members of armed groups in Mosul an amnesty in exchange for surrendering their weapons. He says the gunmen have 10 days starting today to hand over medium and heavy weapons and receive unspecified monetary compensation in return. The...
Report: Iran calls shooting of five at Baghdad embassy "assassination attempt" Also blames "distrustful" U.S. security, Iran news agency says Iran Foreign Ministry: U.S. forces destabilizing Iraq U.S. military: U.S. troops "in no way involved in this attack" (CNN) -- Iran is calling the shooting...
U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Baghdad have cut off contact with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite, because of his increasingly strained relationship with U.S.-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington...
IRAQ - Nearly 33,000 chicks raised in the Karadi hatchery were prepared for delivery this week. They will be making their way towards farms in Mahmudiyah, about 16 miles south of Baghdad, where they will begin a new phase in the local poultry industry.
From TruthDig By Anna Badkhen American troops scour Baghdad’s southwestern neighborhood of Saidiyah for sectarian fighters and roadside bombs, fund reconstruction projects, hand out backpacks to schoolchildren and distribute grants to businesses that want to reopen now that sectarian violence in...
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers detained five criminals, killed one and seized weapons in separate events in Baghdad May 14-15. Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, MND-B, were struck by an explosive...
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 19 suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq criminals in central and northern Iraq Friday. Coalition forces targeted members of AQI suicide bombing cells near...
Government troops began house-to-house searches for militants in Mosul on Thursday, part of a major security operation to cleanse Iraq's third-largest city of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Described by the U.S. military as the last major urban base of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Mosul has become the site...
Published Thu 15 May 2008, 0 Views, 0 Comments A young girl was loaded with explosives and detonated by remote control killing her and an Iraqi soldier. Unconfirmed reports suggest the girl was as young as eight. In March last year a car bomber was able to strike at a market in Baghdad after...
