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We have started to collect the most important news related to Iraq in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
More than 70 people are killed and many more wounded by car bombs and suicide attacks in one of the worst days of violence in Iraq in recent months.
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At least three police officers have been killed after gunmen attack their station in northern Iraq, local officials say.
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Fresh outbreaks of violence in Iraq have left at least eight people dead, police say, hours after the worst day of sectarian violence in the country for months.
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More than 60 people have died in attacks in and around Baghdad, apparently targeting Sunnis, in the worst day of violence in Iraq for months.
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More than 60 people have been killed and dozens hurt in several bomb attacks apparently targeting Sunnis, in Iraq's worst day of violence for months.
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A suicide bomber kills at least eight people in a Shia mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, amid fresh sectarian attacks in the capital Baghdad.
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At least 34 people have been killed in series of bomb attacks across Iraq, several of which targeted mainly Shia districts of Baghdad, officials say.
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Gunmen using silenced weapons attack a row of alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving 10 people dead, officials say.
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A group of licensed alcohol stores run by Christian men in Baghdad was targeted by a gunmen in an attack which left 10 people dead.
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TurkeyFighters from the PKK Kurdish rebel group begin leaving Turkey for their safe havens in Iraq under a ceasefire, according to Kurdish sources.
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United StatesA coalition led by Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki wins the most seats in seven of 12 provinces, in the first elections since US troops withdrew in 2011.
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Rising tensions create a new crisis for Iraq's future
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April was Iraq's deadliest month since June 2008, with a total of 712 people killed and 1,633 wounded in bomb attacks and other violence, the UN says.
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At least 14 members of an anti-al-Qaeda Sunni militia are killed in two attacks by militants near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, officials say.
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United StatesThe situation of children in Iraq 10 years after the US-led invasion is "one of the world's most neglected crises", the charity War Child says.
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United StatesA US woman soldier is sentenced to 10 months in military prison after pleading guilty to desertion while on leave from a deployment in Iraq.
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At least 18 people are killed and dozens injured as five car bombs hit Shia-majority provinces in southern Iraq, officials say.
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Iraq suspends the licences of 10 satellite channels including al-Jazeera and imposes a ban on their operations for "promoting violence".
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United StatesIraq's prime minister warns that a plague of sectarianism is threatening Arab nations, after the most widespread violence there since US troops left.
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SyriaPrime Minister David Cameron expresses concerns that international action in Syria may be being held back because of fears of a repeat of the Iraq war.
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The UN envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, calls for restraint by all sides amid a wave of violence that has left more than 150 people dead since Tuesday.
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Iraq has seen an increase in sectarian violence with Sunni unrest directed against the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki.
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TurkeyJames Reynolds reports from the headquarters of Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, in the Qandil mountains in northern Iraq, as it announces the withdrawal of its fighters from Turkish territory.
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At least 10 policemen and 30 gunmen die in clashes in Mosul as anti-government protests continue in Iraq's Sunni-dominated areas.
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Saudi ArabiaA millionaire businessman who sold fake bomb detectors to countries including Iraq and Georgia, knowing they did not work, is convicted of fraud.
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Two Sunni ministers resign in protest as more than 20 people die in clashes between Iraqi security forces and Sunni Muslim protesters.
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United StatesPeople in Iraq have begun voting in the country's first elections since the departure of US troops more than a year ago.
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Spectre of sectarianism stalks Iraqi elections
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At least seven people are killed in a mortar attack on a Sunni mosque in northern Iraq, police say, a day before provincial polls.
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At least 27 people, including two children, have been killed and scores hurt in a bomb attack on a cafe in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.
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United StatesChallenges for Iraq of first local polls since US withdrawal
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United KingdomA teenager killed in Iraq was tortured and hanged by British troops, his uncle claims at the Al-Sweady inquiry.
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Officials say at least 31 people have been killed and more than 200 others wounded in a series of early morning explosions across Iraq.
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At least 11 are killed and more than 30 wounded in bomb attacks on mosques in Iraq's capital Baghdad and in the province of Diyala.
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Is Iraq on its way to solving its electricity problems?
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Paragliders in Mosul seek a way to shake off Iraq's recent past
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The Iraqi city of Mosul is one of the most dangerous in the country, but for some residents taking to its skies in a paraglider is one way of trying to forget years beset by conflict and fear.
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SyriaThe leader of the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda says his group will merge with al-Nusra Front in Syria under a new name.
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United StatesTen years ago American tanks entered the Iraqi capital and pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Ten years after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad, a former SAS man hopes to sell a piece of it for charity.
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A suicide bomb and grenade attack kills at least 22 people and injures about 50 at a campaign rally in the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba.
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A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police HQ in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people.
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A dying Iraq veteran's parting shot at George W Bush
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A series of car bomb attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk have targeted Shia mosques during Friday prayers, killing at least 19 people.
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The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has covered events in Iraq for 28 years and looks at what sort of future the country faces.
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Syria, United StatesUS Secretary of State John Kerry says it is problematic that Iranian planes with arms for Syria are flying over Iraq, in an unannounced visit to Baghdad.
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The city that spells good times for Iraq's Kurds
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United StatesHow the period in which troops served in Iraq shaped their fight
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Doctors at the Basra maternity hospital in Iraq have told the BBC that they have seen a 60% rise in birth defects since 2003.
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Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, bombings, killings and kidnappings are still frequent occurrences in Baghdad, and a network of checkpoints exists in an effort to curb the violence. Ben Brown explains how they work.
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A militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind the wave of bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday which killed some 50 people.
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United StatesThe shifting nature of combat in Iraq forced the US military to upgrade its equipment, as it sought to minimise casualties.
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Up to 60 people are killed and scores are injured in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Syria, United KingdomFormer UK PM Tony Blair tells the BBC he has no regrets over Iraq on the 10th anniversary of the country's invasion - and says the situation otherwise would have been "a lot worse than Syria".
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The BBC's Ben Brown, who reported on the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, has returned to Baghdad to assess how the years of bloodshed has affected some of Iraq's children.
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John Simpson on the memory that won't leave him
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Former soldier Jon le Galloudec was shot in the back and paralysed in an ambush by insurgents in Basra in 2006.
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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. It is thought that at least 116,000 civilians lost their lives in the years following the invasion.
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As the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war approaches Ben Brown went back to ask if the violence, lasting almost nine years has been worth it
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The spies who misled the world over Iraq's weapons
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