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

Welcome awaits Iraq shoe thrower

Thursday, September 10th 2009, 19:04

Job offers and money await the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George W Bush when he is freed on Monday, his family says.
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Lorry bombers target Iraqi Kurds

Thursday, September 10th 2009, 9:22
related places: Mosul

A lorry bomber attacks a Kurdish village in northern Iraq, killing at least 19 people, but a second raid is foiled.
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'Most against' UK troops in Iraq

Thursday, September 10th 2009, 6:52
related countries: United Kingdom

Six out of 10 people think British troops should not have gone to Iraq, a National Army Museum poll suggests.
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Deadly Kirkuk blast 'a mistake'

Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 17:16
related places: Kirkuk

At least eight people die in Kirkuk after a car bomb being prepared for use in an attack goes off prematurely, police say.
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Deadly day for US troops overseas

Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 16:31
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

Four US soldiers die in roadside bombings in Iraq while four more are killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan.
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US troops killed in Iraq bombings

Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 13:35
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

Four US soldiers have died in bombings in Iraq, three in northern Iraq and another in the capital Baghdad, officials say.
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North Iraq bomb kills policemen

Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 10:51

A roadside bomb kills a police chief and at least four of his colleagues in the northern Iraqi town of Amirli.
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Deadly bomb blast in Iraqi city

Monday, September 7th 2009, 8:03

At least seven people are killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the city of Ramadi in western Iraq, police say.
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Iraq bolsters Syria border force

Friday, September 4th 2009, 21:48
related countries: Syria
related places: Damascus

Iraq sends thousands of reinforcements to its border with Syria, amid claims Damascus harbours militants.
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Life for US soldier's Iraq crimes

Friday, September 4th 2009, 21:28
related countries: United States

A US judge confirms an American soldier convicted of rape and murder in Iraq will serve five consecutive life sentences.
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Iraq body confirmed as UK hostage

Thursday, September 3rd 2009, 17:50
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Baghdad

A body handed to UK authorities in Iraq has been identified as that of Alec MacLachlan - one of five Britons seized in Baghdad in 2007.
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Bid to identify Iraq hostage body

Thursday, September 3rd 2009, 12:42
related places: Baghdad

Forensic experts in Iraq are working to identify a body thought to belong to one of five Britons seized in Baghdad in 2007.
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Denmark deports group of Iraqis

Wednesday, September 2nd 2009, 14:32

Denmark deports 22 Iraqi asylum seekers, saying they do not face persecution - but a support group is outraged.
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Iraq bank raiders to be hanged

Wednesday, September 2nd 2009, 8:54
related places: Baghdad

Four security force members are given death sentences for a bank robbery in Baghdad in which eight guards were killed.
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Iraq-Syria war of words escalates

Monday, August 31st 2009, 15:43
related countries: Syria, Turkey

Syria and Iraq trade accusations as Turkey leads diplomatic efforts to cool a row over responsibility for deadly attacks in Iraq.
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Iraq seeks Serbian return of MiGs

Monday, August 31st 2009, 13:18

The Iraqi authorities say they are negotiating the return of 19 MiG fighters sent to Yugoslavia in the 1980s for repairs.
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Turks begin Iraq-Syria mediation

Monday, August 31st 2009, 9:43
related countries: Syria, Turkey
related places: Baghdad

Turkey's foreign minister arrives in Baghdad in a bid to resolve a row between Iraq and Syria over a recent spate of bombings in Iraq.
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Thousands mourn Iraqi Shia leader

Saturday, August 29th 2009, 20:41

Thousands of Iraqi Shias turn out to mourn the influential leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim at his funeral procession in Baghdad.
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Corruption danger

Friday, August 28th 2009, 11:01

Growing signs in Iraq that corruption hits security
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Doubts cast on Iraq Picasso find

Friday, August 28th 2009, 8:59
related places: Baghdad

The authenticity of a painting found near Baghdad, which Iraqi police claim is by Picasso, is questioned.
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Shia leader's body flown to Iraq

Friday, August 28th 2009, 8:20
related countries: Iran
related places: Hakim

The body of the powerful Shia political leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who died in Iran, arrives in Iraq for burial.
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Britons accused over Saddam oil

Thursday, August 27th 2009, 12:18
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Saddam

Two British oil traders have been charged with breaching United Nations sanctions on Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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Iraq Shia leader mourned in Iran

Thursday, August 27th 2009, 9:16
related countries: Iran
related places: Hakim, Najaf, Tehran

The body of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a powerful Iraqi Shia Muslim leader, begins its journey from Tehran to Najaf in Iraq for burial.
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Iraq Shia leader dies of cancer

Wednesday, August 26th 2009, 13:23

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of one of the most powerful Shia Muslim parties in Iraq, has died of cancer, his aides say.
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Iraq and Syria recall ambassadors

Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 17:18
related countries: Syria
related places: Baghdad, Damascus

Iraq and Syria recall their envoys in a deepening rift over charges of responsibility for a string of deadly bomb attacks in Baghdad.
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Deadly bus bombs hit Iraqi town

Monday, August 24th 2009, 20:57

At least 11 people have been killed in bomb attacks on two buses near the southern Iraqi town of Kut, police say.
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Iraqi 'bomber confession' aired

Monday, August 24th 2009, 10:31
related places: Baghdad

Iraq TV broadcasts what it says is the confession by a former policeman to recent devastating bombings in Baghdad.
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US names secret terror suspects

Sunday, August 23rd 2009, 15:35
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

The US military starts notifying the Red Cross of terror suspects at secret detention camps in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Baghdad blasts 'were inside job'

Saturday, August 22nd 2009, 15:35
related places: Baghdad

Iraq's foreign minister says the security forces may have colluded in this week's huge truck bombings in central Baghdad.
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Baghdad market struck by bombing

Friday, August 21st 2009, 10:56
related places: Baghdad

A lorry bomb explodes at the entrance to a market in Baghdad as officials meet to discuss the spike in violent attacks.
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Iraqi officials held over blasts

Thursday, August 20th 2009, 19:37
related places: Baghdad

Authorities in Baghdad detain 11 security officers on suspicion of negligence following attacks that killed at least 95 people.
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Iraqi PM orders security review

Wednesday, August 19th 2009, 21:50
related places: Baghdad

Iraq's prime minister orders a security review after a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad leave at least 95 people dead.
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Blasts bring carnage to Baghdad

Wednesday, August 19th 2009, 18:01
related places: Baghdad

At least 95 people are killed and more than 500 injured in a series of blasts in Baghdad, the deadliest attacks in months.
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Anti-gay attacks on rise in Iraq

Monday, August 17th 2009, 14:43

Gay Iraqis are being murdered in a brutal co-ordinated campaign involving militia forces, a rights group says.
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Iraq abandons nationwide census

Monday, August 17th 2009, 0:33

Iraq postpones indefinitely its nationwide census over fears that it could stoke ethnic and political tensions.
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Iraqi protest at media censorship

Friday, August 14th 2009, 22:15
related places: Baghdad

Some 200 Iraqi media workers protest in Baghdad at what they say is growing state interference in their work.
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Double suicide bombs in Iraq town

Thursday, August 13th 2009, 19:28

At least 21 people are killed and 30 injured by two suicide bombers at a crowded cafe in northern Iraq, police say.
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Iraqis ousted from Danish church

Thursday, August 13th 2009, 16:55
related countries: Denmark
related places: Copenhagen

Danish police forcibly evict 17 Iraqi men who had sought refuge in a Copenhagen church to avoid repatriation.
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Car bombs kill eight in Baghdad

Tuesday, August 11th 2009, 19:28
related places: Baghdad

At least eight people have been killed and many injured in two car bomb attacks in east Baghdad, Iraq, police say.
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'Illusion' of safety

Tuesday, August 11th 2009, 9:57

Co-ordinated bombings raise fears across Iraq
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Bomb attacks in Iraq kill dozens

Monday, August 10th 2009, 15:21
related places: Baghdad, Mosul

Blasts in Baghdad and Mosul kill more than 40 people, in some of the deadliest attacks since a US pullout from Iraqi cities.
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Two foreign contractors killed in Iraq

Sunday, August 9th 2009, 19:34
related countries: Aruba, United Kingdom
related places: Baghdad

A British man is arrested after another Briton and an Australian contractor die in a shooting in Baghdad's Green Zone.
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Iraqi bombers kill Shia Muslims

Friday, August 7th 2009, 16:31
related places: Karbala'

Bomb attacks targeting Iraq's Shia Muslims leave at least 36 dead on an important Shia religious festival.
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Baghdad blast walls to come down

Wednesday, August 5th 2009, 18:22
related places: Baghdad

The Iraqi government announces that all blast walls will be removed from Baghdad within the next 40 days.
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Iran 'cannot confirm' US arrests

Wednesday, August 5th 2009, 11:18
related countries: Iran, United States

Iran's Foreign Ministry says it can neither confirm or deny the arrest of three Americans after crossing from Iraq.
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Iraq 'suicide bomber', 16, jailed

Tuesday, August 4th 2009, 18:16

A juvenile court in Iraq sentences a 16-year-old girl to seven and a half years in jail for a failed suicide bomb attack.
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Market in Iraq 'hit by car bomb'

Sunday, August 2nd 2009, 10:12

A car bomb has killed at least six people in a crowded market in the town of Haditha in western Iraq, police say.
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US concern as Iran holds tourists

Saturday, August 1st 2009, 22:20
related countries: Iran, United States

The US says it is doing all it can to aid three Americans arrested inside Iran after apparently straying across the Iraqi border.
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Iraqi officer 'behind bank heist'

Saturday, August 1st 2009, 20:38
related places: Baghdad

An Iraqi army captain may have been behind a major Baghdad bank robbery which left eight people dead.
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Three US nationals held in Iran

Saturday, August 1st 2009, 14:06
related countries: Iran, United States

Three missing US nationals have been detained by Iranian guards after they crossed into Iran from Iraq, Iranian media confirm.
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Deadly blasts hit Baghdad mosques

Friday, July 31st 2009, 21:46
related places: Baghdad

At least 29 people are killed in a series of bombings outside Shia mosques in Baghdad, Iraqi police report.
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Baghdad mosques hit by car bombs

Friday, July 31st 2009, 11:37
related places: Baghdad

At least 24 people have been killed in a series of car bombings outside mosques in Baghdad, Iraqi police report.
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Three held over Baghdad robbery

Friday, July 31st 2009, 10:49
related places: Baghdad

Three people are detained in Iraq in connection with a Baghdad bank robbery in which eight guards were killed.
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UK's Iraq war inquiry to be launched

Thursday, July 30th 2009, 13:52

The inquiry into the Iraq war in the UK will be as open as possible but may not be completed by the end of 2010, its chairman says.
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Deadly bomb at Iraq party office

Thursday, July 30th 2009, 11:49

Seven people are killed as bomb explodes at the office of a Sunni political party in central Iraq, police say.
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What will the Iraq inquiry achieve?

Thursday, July 30th 2009, 8:25

The inquiry into the Iraq war will be as open as possible with some hearings being televised, says chairman Sir John Chilcot. Should the inquiry be held in public?
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Ruling bloc wins Iraqi Kurd poll

Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 16:51

Iraqi Kurdistan's two-party ruling alliance retains control of parliament with 57% of the vote in elections.
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US could speed up Iraq pull-out

Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 14:54
related countries: United States

The US may be able to withdraw troops from Iraq faster than planned, Defence Secretary Robert Gates says, as he ends a visit to the country.
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Anguish over Iraq hostage reports

Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 10:59
related countries: United Kingdom

Families of five British hostages in Iraq are "deeply upset" to hear that two of the men are thought to have died.
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Iran exiles 'killed in Iraq raid'

Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 10:58
related countries: Iran

Seven Iranian dissidents have died in a raid by Iraqi security forces on their camp north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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UK hostages 'likely to be dead'

Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 10:18
related countries: United Kingdom

Two more of the British hostages held in Iraq since 2007 are now thought "very likely" to be dead, the BBC learns.
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Iraqi forces raid Iran exile camp

Tuesday, July 28th 2009, 23:22
related countries: Iran

Iraqi forces raid a camp of an exiled Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran, with reports of casualties.
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US praises Iraq's security gains

Tuesday, July 28th 2009, 15:53
related countries: United States

The US defence secretary says on a visit to Iraq that security there has improved "amazingly" in three years.
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UK troops in Iraq moved to Kuwait

Tuesday, July 28th 2009, 14:12
related countries: Kuwait, United Kingdom

All British forces in Iraq have been moved to Kuwait because the Iraqi authorities are yet to ratify an agreement allowing them to remain, the MoD says.
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Baghdad bank robbers kill eight

Tuesday, July 28th 2009, 13:37
related places: Baghdad

Suspected insurgents rob a central Baghdad bank of about $7m in cash, killing eight guards, police say.
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Quiet return

Tuesday, July 28th 2009, 6:21
related countries: United States

US troops back on patrol in Iraqi cities, on Iraqi terms
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Iraq awaits Kurdistan poll result

Saturday, July 25th 2009, 18:59

Polls close in Iraqi Kurdistan elections, where the ruling coalition faces a stiff challenge from reformists.
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Deadly blast hits Iraqi party HQ

Saturday, July 25th 2009, 15:32

A car bomb attack on the offices of a leading Sunni party in Iraq kills at least one and wounds 27 in the central city of Falluja.
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Decision time

Friday, July 24th 2009, 17:58

Reformists shake up Iraqi Kurdistan elections
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Iraq PM hints at longer US role

Friday, July 24th 2009, 9:15
related countries: United States

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki hints that US forces could stay in Iraq beyond the current deadline of 2011, during a visit to the US.
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Viewpoints

Thursday, July 23rd 2009, 13:13

Voters' hopes for the Iraqi Kurdistan elections
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Iraq and US vow renewed alliance

Wednesday, July 22nd 2009, 21:02
related countries: United States
related places: White House

The leaders of the US and Iraq meet for talks at the White House, pledging to work together to bring peace to Iraq.
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Five Iran pilgrims killed in Iraq

Wednesday, July 22nd 2009, 9:12
related countries: Iran

Five Iranian pilgrims are shot dead near Baquba in the troubled Iraqi border province of Diyala, police said.
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