News: Iraq

We have started to collect the most important news related to Iraq in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Iraq: news

Dozens killed in Iraqi bombings

Monday, December 1st 2008, 12:54
related places: Baghdad, Mosul

At least 32 people have died in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, officials say.
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Dozens killed in Iraqi bombings

Monday, December 1st 2008, 12:54
related places: Baghdad

At least 32 people have died in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, officials say.
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Iraq-Iran war dead are exchanged

Monday, December 1st 2008, 2:33
related countries: Iran

Dead Iraqi and Iranian soldiers from the 1980-88 war are exchanged, in the first such move since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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UN contractors killed in Iraq

Saturday, November 29th 2008, 13:07
related places: Baghdad

Two foreign UN contractors are killed and 15 injured in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone.
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EU ready to accept 10,000 Iraqis

Friday, November 28th 2008, 13:01
related countries: Jordan, Syria

The EU says it is ready to accept up to 10,000 Iraqi refugees, many of whom are living in extreme hardship in Jordan and Syria.
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Suicide bombing at Iraqi mosque

Friday, November 28th 2008, 11:54
related places: Baghdad

A suicide bomber kills nine people in an attack on a Shia mosque south of Baghdad during Friday prayers, Iraqi police say.
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Going, going

Friday, November 28th 2008, 1:06
related countries: United States
related places: Vote

Vote on US troops shows Iraqi democracy at work
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Iraqi parliament backs US pullout

Thursday, November 27th 2008, 14:52
related countries: United States

The Iraqi parliament approves a plan on the future of US forces in Iraq, paving the way for complete withdrawal by 2011.
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Iraq delays vote on US withdrawal

Wednesday, November 26th 2008, 14:53
related countries: United States

Iraqi MPs delay a crucial vote on a plan to withdraw all US troops from the country by the end of 2011.
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Iraq jails 'terribly overcrowded'

Tuesday, November 25th 2008, 17:18

The BBC uncovers evidence of serious overcrowding and poor living conditions in one of Iraq's prisons.
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Behind bars

Tuesday, November 25th 2008, 16:05
related places: Baghdad

BBC given exclusive access to a Baghdad prison
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Deadly bomb attacks hit Baghdad

Monday, November 24th 2008, 15:04
related places: Baghdad

At least 19 people have been killed and many others wounded in three bomb attacks in Baghdad.
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Deadly bomb attacks hit Baghdad

Monday, November 24th 2008, 7:11
related places: Baghdad

At least 18 people have been killed and many other wounded in two rush-hour bomb attacks in Baghdad.
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Iraqis protest against troop deal

Friday, November 21st 2008, 11:21
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.
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Security draws Iraqi doctors home

Thursday, November 20th 2008, 16:14

Improved security in Iraq has led to 800 doctors returning so far this year, a senior health ministry official says.
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Iraq leader defends US troop deal

Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 22:43
related countries: United States

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki defends a deal on the presence of US forces in Iraq, saying it preserves Iraqi sovereignty.
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Returning sons

Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 14:32

Awakening Council move hailed as a success in Iraq
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Iraq war 'violated rule of law'

Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 7:53

Advice given to Tony Blair about the legality of the Iraq war was fatally 'flawed', a former senior law lord claims.
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Iraqi voices

Monday, November 17th 2008, 16:32
related countries: United States

Views on the recently struck deal on US troops
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Iraq cabinet backs US troops deal

Sunday, November 16th 2008, 21:30
related countries: United States

The Iraqi cabinet approves a security pact with the US, which foresees a US troop withdrawal by the end of 2011.
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Troops pact

Sunday, November 16th 2008, 19:08
related countries: United States

Iraq security deal raises hopes of US withdrawal
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Lethal car bomb rocks Iraqi town

Saturday, November 15th 2008, 16:45

A car bomb kills 10 people outside a car dealership in the north Iraqi town of Tal Afar while three die in a blast in Baghdad.
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Civilian aircraft crashes in Iraq

Thursday, November 13th 2008, 18:29

A cargo plane with seven people on board crashes in Iraq's western Anbar province after taking off near Falluja.
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Fake New York Times edition announces end of Iraq war

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 22:52
related countries: United States

A fake edition of the New York Times announcing the end of the Iraq war is printed in the US.
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Iraqi soldier kills two US troops

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 18:09
related countries: United States
related places: Mosul

An Iraqi soldier has shot dead two US soldiers and wounded six others in the city of Mosul, reports say.
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Baghdad shaken by series of bombs

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 16:51
related places: Baghdad

At least 21 people are killed and more than 90 injured in a series of bombs throughout Baghdad, police say.
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Baghdad re-opens 'unity bridge'

Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 18:39
related places: Baghdad

Iraqi authorities formally re-open a key Baghdad bridge linking Shia and Sunni neighbourhoods on either side of the Tigris.
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Fresh bombs hit Baghdad rush hour

Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 10:53
related places: Baghdad

At least three people are been killed in a double bomb attack in a mainly Shia part of eastern Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Obama meets Bush at White House

Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 9:05

US President-elect Barack Obama holds his first meeting with President George W Bush since his election victory last week.
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Still unstable

Monday, November 10th 2008, 14:50
related places: Baghdad

Bombings show Baghdad is still highly volatile
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Triple Baghdad blasts kill dozens

Monday, November 10th 2008, 11:10
related places: Baghdad

At least 28 people are killed in three bombings that occurred just moments apart in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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Date set for Iraq provincial poll

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 17:38

Iraqi officials say provincial elections will take place on 31 January - a key step in the process of national reconciliation.
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Iraq suicide bombing kills eight

Saturday, November 8th 2008, 15:05
related places: Baghdad

Eight peopleare killed in a suicide bombing near the city of Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province, west of Baghdad, police say.
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Baghdad bombing hits Shia family

Friday, November 7th 2008, 17:25
related places: Baghdad

A bomb hits a Baghdad house belonging to a Shia family who had recently returned to their home in a mostly Sunni area, police say.
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Obama and Bush to meet next week

Friday, November 7th 2008, 3:14
related countries: United States

US President-elect Barack Obama and incumbent George W Bush are to discuss key issues early next week, as the transition process gets under way.
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Ready to go?

Thursday, November 6th 2008, 11:42
related countries: United States

No easy way out of Iraq for next US commander-in-chief
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Four killed by twin Baghdad bombs

Thursday, November 6th 2008, 10:13
related places: Baghdad

Four people have been killed by twin bombs at a checkpoint in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Baghdad rocked by fresh bombings

Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 12:58
related places: Baghdad

Police in Iraq say that at least eleven people have been killed in two separate explosions in the capital Baghdad.
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Baghdadophobia

Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 9:16

Fear of dying still stalks streets of Iraq's capital
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Iraq minorities quota 'an insult'

Monday, November 3rd 2008, 16:21

Iraqi MPs vote to guarantee six provincial council seats for small religious and ethnic minorities in next year's polls.
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Seven dead in Baghdad blasts

Monday, November 3rd 2008, 13:10
related places: Baghdad

Four bombs explode in Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding at least 20 others, including a deputy minister, police say.
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Saddam Hussein's opulent yacht to be sold by Iraqi government

Sunday, November 2nd 2008, 19:59

Saddam Hussein's opulent yacht to be sold by the Iraqi government
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Baghdad water pipeline blown up

Friday, October 31st 2008, 17:48
related places: Baghdad

Insurgents have blown up a water pipeline in Baghdad, disrupting supplies to hundreds of thousands of people, security officials say.
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Bush confident of Iraq troop deal

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 19:11
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

The US president says he is confident a deal on the future of US troops in Iraq will be approved despite Iraqi objections.
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US hands province to Iraqi forces

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 10:00
related countries: United States
related places: Wasit

The US military transfers control of Wasit to Iraqi forces, in the latest in a series of provincial handovers.
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Warning on 'dire' Iraq conditions

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 5:54

The Red Cross warns that Iraq's infrastructure remains dire, putting the health of millions at risk.
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Baghdad condemns 'US Syria raid'

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 16:08
related countries: United States

Iraq criticises an apparent US helicopter strike into Syria, saying it does not want to be used as a launch-point for attacks.
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Iraqi al-Qaeda militant to hang

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 14:49
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

An Iraqi militant is sentenced to death by hanging for the 2006 killing of three American soldiers south of Baghdad.
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Syria raid 'killed major target'

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 8:12
related countries: Syria, United States

A US raid into Syria killed a key figure in the smuggling of foreign fighters into Iraq, unnamed US officials say.
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'US helicopter raid' inside Syria

Monday, October 27th 2008, 7:30
related countries: Syria

US military helicopters kill eight people in an attack inside Syria along its border with Iraq, the Syrian authorities say.
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Iraqi party protests at shooting

Saturday, October 25th 2008, 23:33
related countries: United States

Iraq's largest Sunni party freezes contacts with US civilian and military personnel in protest at a shooting in Fallujah.
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Work in progress

Friday, October 24th 2008, 14:55
related countries: United States

US gets ready to pass the baton to the Iraqi military
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US forces hand province to Iraqis

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 15:27
related countries: United States
related places: Babil

Iraqi forces have been handed control of security in the central province of Babil by the US military.
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