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IRAQIS CALL FOR JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN FUGITIVE VP TRIAL
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 3RD MAY) Iraqis said they hoped for judicial independence on the trial of fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Thursday (May 3), hours before the start of the trial in... -
TOP BAGHDAD OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsA simmering dispute between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan is an internal affair, a top Baghdad official said yesterday in an implicit rebuff of U.S. efforts... -
SERIES OF BLASTS HIT IRAQ’S CAPITAL – POLICE SOURCES
Posted on April 19, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 19TH APRIL) A string of attacks hit Iraq’s capital Baghdad and other cities across the country on Thursday (April 19) and police said at least 24 people were killed in total... -
IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO GRADUALLY REDUCE SECURITY CHECKPOINTS IN BAGHDAD
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 18TH APRIL) The Iraqi government has announced plans to gradually reduce the number of checkpoints in Baghdad and other cities as the domestic security situation improves. As the number of security... -
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 31 IN BAGHDAD ATTACK
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No Comments(REUTERS – 27TH JAN) A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-filled taxi near a funeral procession in Baghdad on Friday, killing 31 people in the latest attack in a Shi’ite neighbourhood amid... -
BOMB BLASTS KILL AT LEAST 18 IN IRAQI CAPITAL
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No Comments(REUTERS – October 28th) Two bombs exploded in a busy commercial street in a Shi’ite neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad today, killing at least 18 people and wounding almost three dozen... -
TWO BOMBINGS KILL 16 IN BAGHDAD
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No Comments(REUTERS – October 14th) Two bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in a mainly Shi’ite Baghdad district yesterday in the latest in a series of large attacks... -
BAGHDAD BOMBS KILL 14, WOUND 60
Posted on October 12, 2011 | No Comments(REUTERS – October 12th) Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb targeted police in separate districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad today, killing at least 14 people... -
IRAQI SUNNIS IN BAGHDAD ATTEND PRAYERS FOR EID-AL-FITIR
Posted on August 30, 2011 | No CommentsIraqi Sunnis, in Baghdad, attended prayers before Eid al-Fitr, the great feast that closes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan today. Some worshippers went to the mosque of the 14th... -
SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 24 AT BAGHDAD MOSQUE
Posted on August 29, 2011 | No CommentsChildren were playing in the premises of Baghdad‘s Umm al-Qura mosque when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Baghdad‘s Umm al-Qura mosqueon last night. Women came rushing in to...