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.

World news related to Iraq – overview

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• $10m reward to find Iraq killers – 'No timetable' for Turkey assault
• 'No whitewash' from UK's Iraq inquiry – Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri mocks US bill
• Ambush kills 13 Iraqi servicemen – AWB kickbacks report handed in
• AWB loses hold after Iraq probe – Baghdad market bomb 'kills 130'
• Baghdad market bomb kills 13 – Battle 'marks new Iraq campaign'
• Battle rages in Shia Iraqi town – Blasts hit Baghdad football game
• Blasts kill 14 at Baghdad airport – Bounty set over Prophet cartoon
• Breakthrough in Iraq oil standoff – Bush hails Iraq militia crackdown
• Bush hails Iraq militia crackdown – Bush vows to 'complete Iraq job'
• Bush vows to adapt Iraq tactics – Charges dropped in Haditha trial
• Checkpoint attack kills 10 Iraqis – Danes on trial over Iraq secrets
• Dangerous chemicals found at UN – Democrats wary over Iran claims
• Democrats' anger at Bush Iraq speech – eBay Iraq relic auction stopped
• Eden drying out – Fifty Iraqi security men captured
• Fijian died in Iraq accident – Fresh bombs hit Baghdad rush hour
• Fresh bombs shake Iraqi capital – Gunmen kill 29 villagers in Iraq
• Gunmen kill dozens in Iraqi town – Insurgents downed Iraq helicopter
• IOC offers last chance for Iraq – Iraq 'failing half US benchmarks'
• Iraq 'fails to meet key targets' – Iraq bomb attack toll rises to 52
• Iraq bomb attacks leave 16 dead – Iraq court drops Saddam's charges
• Iraq court names new Saddam judge – Iraq gunmen target Oman embassy
• Iraq hangs 13 for insurgency role – Iraq MPs block non-US troop bill
• Iraq MPs condemn parliament blast – Iraq postpones key elections vote
• Iraq power system 'near collapse' – Iraq shoe thrower 'was tortured'
• Iraq shoe thrower faces shoe-ing – Iraq tribes 'taking on al-Qaeda'
• Iraq troops 'buried family alive' – Iraqi 'bomber confession' aired
• Iraqi 'plot' officials released – Iraqi jailed over aid worker death
• Iraqi journalist's family 'safe' – Iraqi PM hails vote as 'victory'
• Iraqi PM home after health tests – Iraqi students seized near Baquba
• Iraqi Sunni leader meets Sistani – Italian troops' bodies flown home
• Italians 'cannot try US soldier' – Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'
• Killing sparks Iraq-Australia row – Many killed in Iraq suicide bomb
• Many killed in Iraqi bomb attacks – Most people 'want Iraq pull-out'
• Mother recalls Iraqi gas attack – No new charges on UK Iraq death
• No public probe into Iraq 'abuse' – Petraeus says Iraq gains 'uneven'
• Pinter blasts Iraq war 'lies' – Reid urges Iraqi leaders to unite
• Relocation plan for Kirkuk Arabs – Russian hostages 'killed in Iraq'
• S Asian pilgrims shot in Iraq – Saddam trial defence continues
• Saddam trial faces fresh delays – Seven dead in Baghdad bank blast
• Seven dead in Baghdad blasts – Stress 'no excuse in Iraq case'
• Study reveals veterans' trauma – Tehran rejects US weapons claims
• Ten die in Baghdad car blast – Troops cleared over Iraq deaths
• Troops feared dead in Basra crash – Turkish soldiers cross into Iraq
• Turkish soldiers killed by rebels – UK may transfer Basra 'in spring'
• UK minister accused over Iraq attacks – UN warns of Iraq refugee crisis
• UN's concern over Iraqi killings – US air strike kills Iraqi troops
• US air strike kills nine in Iraq – US denies Saddam handed to Iraq
• US detains 'Iran-linked militant' – US hostage in Iraq confirmed dead
• US hostage makes new video appeal – US marines face Iraq murder trial
• US marines offer Babylon apology – US rejects Iran captives exchange
• US rejects Iraq hostage ransoms – US soldier jailed for Iraq murder
• US soldier jailed on Iraq murders – US troops killed in northern Iraq
• US troops launch Iraq toxins case – Warning over Pentagon funding
• Warnings of Iraq refugee crisis – Zawahiri tape praises insurgency

Iraq: news

US air strike kills nine in Iraq

Monday, June 12th 2006, 14:18
related countries: United States

A US air strike in Iraq kills seven adults, described by the military as "terrorists", and two children near Baquba.
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US alarm at Iran's Iraq incursion

Sunday, December 20th 2009, 1:22
related countries: Iran, United States
related places: America

America's top military officer voices concern, after Iranian soldiers occupied an oil well in Iraq.
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US and Iran to hold talks on Iraq

Thursday, May 17th 2007, 9:01
related countries: Iran, United States

US and Iranian diplomats will hold talks later this month on the security situation in Iraq, Iran's foreign minister says.
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US and Iran to hold talks on Iraq

Sunday, May 13th 2007, 15:15
related countries: United States

Iran and the US say they are to hold joint talks in Baghdad in the coming weeks on the situation in Iraq.
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US and Iraq seek to heal strains

Saturday, October 28th 2006, 21:11
related countries: United States

President Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki hold talks by video, after several days of public disagreement.
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US and Iraqi forces raid Baquba

Saturday, December 2nd 2006, 14:12
related countries: United States

US and Iraqi forces launch an offensive against insurgents in Baquba, as three car bombs kill 24 in the capital, Baghdad.
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US and Syria hold landmark talks

Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 16:23
related countries: Syria, United States

Condoleezza Rice holds the US's first high-level talks with Syria since 2005, on the fringe of an Iraq conference.
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US and UK try to break Iraq delay

Monday, April 3rd 2006, 7:43
related countries: United Kingdom, United States

Condoleezza Rice and Jack Straw urge Iraqi leaders to end the delays and form a government.
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US and UK urge Iraq talks speed

Monday, April 3rd 2006, 4:14
related countries: United Kingdom, United States
related places: Baghdad, Straw

Condoleezza Rice and Jack Straw call on Iraqi leaders to press ahead with negotiations on a new government.
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US anti-war grandmothers on trial

Thursday, April 20th 2006, 19:37
related countries: United States

Eighteen women who call themselves the "Granny Peace Brigade" go on trial for their protest against the Iraq war.
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US anti-war mother ends protest

Tuesday, May 29th 2007, 9:13
related countries: United States

US peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq, says she is giving up campaigning to end the war.
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US approves more troops for Iraq

Thursday, March 8th 2007, 8:09
related countries: United States

An extra 2,200 military police are to head to Iraq to support the US security drive in the capital, the Pentagon says.
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US army clears Abu Ghraib officer

Friday, January 11th 2008, 10:48
related countries: United States

A US army officer who ran the interrogation unit of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail is cleared of any wrongdoing.
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US army describes Iraq abductions

Saturday, January 27th 2007, 0:58
related countries: United States

The US military says four US soldiers were abducted in an attack last week before being killed.
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US army drops Iraq murder charges

Tuesday, December 6th 2005, 11:40
related countries: United States

The US army drops charges against a soldier accused of murder while commanding a platoon in Iraq.
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US army moots Iraq changes

Friday, November 10th 2006, 23:24
related countries: United States

US military leaders are set to recommend changes in strategy on Iraq, America's top military officer says.
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US Army reviewing combat deaths

Friday, August 25th 2006, 4:54
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

The US Army reviews how hundreds of soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan following complaints by relatives.
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US attack 'kills Iraqi children'

Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 20:25
related countries: United States

A US helicopter attack on suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children, Iraqi sources say.
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US battles militia in Iraqi city

Saturday, April 7th 2007, 16:39
related countries: United States

US and Iraqi troops engage in a second day of fierce fighting with Shia militias in the city of Diwaniya.
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US Bechtel wraps up Iraq projects

Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 23:42
related countries: United States

US firm Bechtel, involved for three years in Iraq's reconstruction, pulls out amid worsening security.
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US bid to curb Ramadi militants

Sunday, June 18th 2006, 13:57
related countries: United States

US and Iraqi forces set up extra checkpoints in the town of Ramadi in a bid to curb militants' movements.
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US boosts Baghdad security force

Tuesday, July 25th 2006, 17:30
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

President Bush says US troops will be redeployed to Baghdad to combat the deteriorating security situation.
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US boosts focus on Iraq bombings

Tuesday, December 6th 2005, 7:50
related countries: United States

A US four-star general is appointed to lead efforts to stop homemade bomb attacks on troops in Iraq.
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US calls for Iraqi reconciliation

Sunday, December 2nd 2007, 16:15
related countries: United States

The US says Iraq's leaders must take advantage of the improved security to make progress to reconciliation.
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US captures 'top Iraqi insurgent'

Wednesday, July 18th 2007, 12:49
related countries: United States

US forces say they have arrested a senior member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, named as Khaled Mashhadani.
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US captures Iraqi 'al-Qaeda men'

Monday, August 18th 2008, 15:58
related countries: United States

US-led forces make 11 arrests in a continuing campaign aimed at disrupting Sunni militants linked to al-Qaeda, the US military says.
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US carries out air strike in Iraq

Thursday, March 27th 2008, 8:10
related countries: United States

The US says it killed four militants in an air strike in Iraq, but Iraqi sources say dozens of people were killed.
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US charges ex-Abu Ghraib officer

Friday, April 28th 2006, 23:50
related countries: United States

The US army charges the head of the interrogation centre at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison over detainee abuse.
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US charges man 'on Saddam pay'

Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 23:26
related countries: United States
related places: Saddam

A US man who sent three lawmakers to Iraq in 2002 is charged with working for Saddam Hussein's regime.
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US charges man 'on Saddam's pay'

Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 23:26
related countries: United States
related places: Saddam

A US man who sent three lawmakers to Iraq in 2002 is charged with working for Saddam Hussein's regime.
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US chief seeks new tack on Iraq

Wednesday, January 31st 2007, 6:39
related countries: United States
related places: Senate

President Bush's choice for chief of US forces in the Middle East urges a "new and different" approach in Iraq.
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US claims fall in Baghdad attacks

Thursday, September 20th 2007, 11:54
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

Violence in Baghdad has fallen by 50% since the start of 2007 as the surge takes effect, the US army says.
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US closes 'bomb secrets' website

Friday, November 3rd 2006, 19:29
related countries: United States

The US closes a government website that posted Iraqi material said to detail nuclear bomb-making.
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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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US Congress passes Iraq funding

Thursday, December 20th 2007, 0:18
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

The US Congress backs a huge federal budget, bowing to President Bush's call for extra Afghan and Iraq funds.
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US contractors held over Iraq death

Sunday, June 7th 2009, 17:18
related countries: United States

Iraqi police arrest five Americans in connection with the killing of a fellow American last month, Iraqi officials say.
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US contractors in Iraq shootout

Monday, September 17th 2007, 11:03
related countries: United States

Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by private US security contractors.
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US conviction over Iraq killing

Thursday, February 21st 2008, 1:55
related countries: United States

A military court finds a US soldier guilty of aggravated assault in relation to the killing of an Iraqi man last year.
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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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US criticised over Babylon damage

Thursday, July 9th 2009, 17:21
related countries: United States
related places: Babylon

American troops and contractors caused substantial damage to the archaelogical site at Babylon in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, a new UN report says.
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US deadlock over Iraq war funds

Friday, May 18th 2007, 20:31
related countries: United States
related places: White House

Talks between Democrats and the White House fail to break the deadlock over a contentious Iraq war funding bill.
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US death toll in Iraq hits 2,500

Thursday, June 15th 2006, 16:34
related countries: United States

The number of US troops killed in Iraq reaches 2,500 with the death of a marine, the Pentagon announces.
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US deaths in Iraq rise sharply

Monday, June 1st 2009, 10:39
related countries: United States
related places: May

US military confirms 24 service personnel were killed in Iraq in May, the highest total since September 2008.
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US declares PKK 'a common enemy'

Friday, November 2nd 2007, 14:35
related countries: Turkey, United States
related places: Ankara

The US says it shares with Turkey an enemy in the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq.
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US defence chief arrives in Iraq

Friday, January 19th 2007, 8:35
related countries: United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrives in the Iraqi city of Basra, on a previously unannounced visit.
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US defence secretary visits Iraq

Thursday, April 19th 2007, 14:51
related places: Baghdad

US defence chief Robert Gates is in Iraq, as violence in Baghdad claims more lives after a day of carnage.
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US defends Iraq phosphorus

Wednesday, November 30th 2005, 1:45
related countries: United States

The most senior US general defends the use of weapons containing white phosphorus in Iraq.
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US demands Iraq protect prisoners

Sunday, December 25th 2005, 20:28
related countries: United States

The US says it will not hand over detainees to the Iraqi authorities until they raise standards of care.
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US Democrats draft Iraq challenge

Friday, February 23rd 2007, 11:42
related countries: United States
related places: Senate

Democrats in the US are planning a Senate challenge to President George W Bush's handling of the Iraq war.
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US Democrats warn Bush on Iran

Friday, February 16th 2007, 9:57
related countries: United States

Top Democrats in the US warn President Bush he does not have the authority to go to war with Iran
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US denies backing Turkish raids

Monday, December 17th 2007, 14:19
related countries: Turkey, United States

The US denies it gave permission for Turkish aircraft to carry out strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq.
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US denies Iranian torture claim

Saturday, April 7th 2007, 23:37
related countries: Iran, United States

The US denies claims by an Iranian diplomat abducted in Iraq that he was tortured by CIA agents.
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US denies Saddam handed to Iraq

Friday, December 29th 2006, 20:17

US officials deny reports Saddam Hussein has been transferred to Iraqi custody ahead of his execution.
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$10m reward to find Iraq killers – 'No timetable' for Turkey assault'No whitewash' from UK's Iraq inquiry – Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri mocks US billAmbush kills 13 Iraqi servicemen – AWB kickbacks report handed inAWB loses hold after Iraq probe – Baghdad market bomb 'kills 130'Baghdad market bomb kills 13 – Battle 'marks new Iraq campaign'Battle rages in Shia Iraqi town – Blasts hit Baghdad football gameBlasts kill 14 at Baghdad airport – Bounty set over Prophet cartoonBreakthrough in Iraq oil standoff – Bush hails Iraq militia crackdownBush hails Iraq militia crackdown – Bush vows to 'complete Iraq job'Bush vows to adapt Iraq tactics – Charges dropped in Haditha trialCheckpoint attack kills 10 Iraqis – Danes on trial over Iraq secretsDangerous chemicals found at UN – Democrats wary over Iran claimsDemocrats' anger at Bush Iraq speech – eBay Iraq relic auction stoppedEden drying out – Fifty Iraqi security men capturedFijian died in Iraq accident – Fresh bombs hit Baghdad rush hourFresh bombs shake Iraqi capital – Gunmen kill 29 villagers in IraqGunmen kill dozens in Iraqi town – Insurgents downed Iraq helicopterIOC offers last chance for Iraq – Iraq 'failing half US benchmarks'Iraq 'fails to meet key targets' – Iraq bomb attack toll rises to 52Iraq bomb attacks leave 16 dead – Iraq court drops Saddam's chargesIraq court names new Saddam judge – Iraq gunmen target Oman embassyIraq hangs 13 for insurgency role – Iraq MPs block non-US troop billIraq MPs condemn parliament blast – Iraq postpones key elections voteIraq power system 'near collapse' – Iraq shoe thrower 'was tortured'Iraq shoe thrower faces shoe-ing – Iraq tribes 'taking on al-Qaeda'Iraq troops 'buried family alive' – Iraqi 'bomber confession' airedIraqi 'plot' officials released – Iraqi jailed over aid worker deathIraqi journalist's family 'safe' – Iraqi PM hails vote as 'victory'Iraqi PM home after health tests – Iraqi students seized near BaqubaIraqi Sunni leader meets Sistani – Italian troops' bodies flown homeItalians 'cannot try US soldier' – Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'Killing sparks Iraq-Australia row – Many killed in Iraq suicide bombMany killed in Iraqi bomb attacks – Most people 'want Iraq pull-out'Mother recalls Iraqi gas attack – No new charges on UK Iraq deathNo public probe into Iraq 'abuse' – Petraeus says Iraq gains 'uneven'Pinter blasts Iraq war 'lies' – Reid urges Iraqi leaders to uniteRelocation plan for Kirkuk Arabs – Russian hostages 'killed in Iraq'S Asian pilgrims shot in Iraq – Saddam trial defence continuesSaddam trial faces fresh delays – Seven dead in Baghdad bank blastSeven dead in Baghdad blasts – Stress 'no excuse in Iraq case'Study reveals veterans' trauma – Tehran rejects US weapons claimsTen die in Baghdad car blast – Troops cleared over Iraq deathsTroops feared dead in Basra crash – Turkish soldiers cross into IraqTurkish soldiers killed by rebels – UK may transfer Basra 'in spring'UK minister accused over Iraq attacks – UN warns of Iraq refugee crisisUN's concern over Iraqi killings – US air strike kills Iraqi troopsUS air strike kills nine in Iraq – US denies Saddam handed to IraqUS detains 'Iran-linked militant' – US hostage in Iraq confirmed deadUS hostage makes new video appeal – US marines face Iraq murder trialUS marines offer Babylon apology – US rejects Iran captives exchangeUS rejects Iraq hostage ransoms – US soldier jailed for Iraq murderUS soldier jailed on Iraq murders – US troops killed in northern IraqUS troops launch Iraq toxins case – Warning over Pentagon fundingWarnings of Iraq refugee crisis – Zawahiri tape praises insurgency