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

Iraq suicide car bombs kill nine

Monday, April 18th 2011, 9:24
related places: Baghdad

Two suicide car bombs explode in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 25.
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Jail for US Iraqi daughter killer

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 3:02
related countries: United States
related places: Arizona

An Iraqi immigrant is sentenced to 34 years and six months in prison in Arizona for killing his daughter because she had become too Westernised.
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Iraq uncovers 'Saddam-era' grave

Friday, April 15th 2011, 12:31
related places: Saddam

Iraqi officials find a mass grave containing the bodies of more than 800 people thought to have been executed during Saddam Hussein's rule.
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Iraq exile camp raid 'killed 34'

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 18:22
related countries: Iran

The United Nations says 34 people were killed during a raid last Friday by Iraqi forces on an Iranian exile group at Camp Ashraf.
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Iraq marshlands film wins award

Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 12:53

A Dorset filmmaker's wildlife documentary about the marshes of Iraq has won an international award.
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Iranian exiles 'must leave Iraq'

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 0:17
related countries: Iran

Iraq's government says members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces.
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Iraq forces attack Iranian exiles

Friday, April 8th 2011, 13:32
related countries: Iran
related places: Baghdad

Iraqi forces attack a camp housing an Iranian exile group north of Baghdad, officials said, amid reports of fatalities.
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US Iraq troops 'can stay longer'

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 16:34
related countries: United States

US troops could if required stay in Iraq beyond the agreed withdrawal date of 31 December, 2011, US defence secretary Robert Gates says.
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Libya 'needs Gaddafi as leader'

Tuesday, April 5th 2011, 9:16
related countries: Libya, Somalia

The Libyan government says it is open to political reform but Muammar Gaddafi must stay in power to avoid a deadly power vacuum.
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VIDEO: Public support for Libya action 'mixed'

Sunday, April 3rd 2011, 8:20
related countries: Libya, United Kingdom

A poll suggests that the backing of British people for the Libyan mission is less than it was for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Sold into slavery

Thursday, March 31st 2011, 8:55
related countries: Uganda

The Ugandan women 'exported' to Iraq - and their daring escape
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Iraq blames al-Qaeda for attack

Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 14:21
related places: Tikrit

Sunni militants linked to al-Qaeda were responsible for a bloody siege in Tikrit in which 56 people were killed, Iraqi officials say.
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Dozens killed after siege in Iraq

Tuesday, March 29th 2011, 18:04
related places: Tikrit

At least 41 people are killed and dozens wounded after gunmen storm council offices in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
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Tales from check-in

Thursday, March 24th 2011, 0:07
related places: Baghdad

The strange mix of people at Baghdad airport
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AUDIO: Libya resident: 'You're invaders not allies'

Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 11:07
related countries: Libya
related places: Tripoli

An Iraqi woman living in Tripoli tells BBC Radio 5 live presenter Peter Allen 'they think you're invaders, not allies', following air strikes on Libya.
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Suicide bomber hits Iraqi troops

Monday, March 14th 2011, 7:37
related places: Baghdad

At least nine soldiers are killed and many others injured in a suicide bomb attack on an Iraqi army base north-east of Baghdad, officials say.
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Suicide bomber targets Iraqi bank

Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 11:45

At least nine people are killed when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a bank in the northern Iraqi town of Haditha.
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Iraq security guard killer jailed

Monday, February 28th 2011, 19:04
related countries: United Kingdom

British security guard Danny Fitzsimons is jailed for 20 years by an Iraqi court for the murders of two colleagues.
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VIDEO: Saddam's monuments repaired

Monday, February 28th 2011, 11:02
related places: Baghdad, Saddam

The giant crossed swords monument in Baghdad, modelled on Saddam's own hands, is being repaired
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Iraq killer reveals hanging fear

Monday, February 28th 2011, 6:01
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Baghdad

A British security guard who killed two colleagues in Baghdad speaks of his fears ahead of a murder verdict.
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Attack shuts Iraqi oil refinery

Saturday, February 26th 2011, 13:08

An early morning gun and bomb attack shuts Iraq's biggest oil refinery, Baiji, with at least two employees killed.
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Deadly demonstrations rock Iraq

Friday, February 25th 2011, 16:58

More than nine people are killed in Iraq as anti-government demonstrations are held in several cities as part of a so-called day of rage.
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'Al-Qaeda leader' killed in Iraq

Friday, February 25th 2011, 15:38

Iraqi security forces say they have killed Abu Suleiman, the "war minister" for al-Qaeda in the country.
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Iraq suicide blast strikes Ramadi

Thursday, February 24th 2011, 16:49

A suicide bomber kills at least eight people in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, reportedly injuring the deputy governor of Anbar province.
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Britons jailed over Iraq bribes

Wednesday, February 23rd 2011, 17:31

Two former executives are jailed for paying kickbacks to win contracts from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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US man guilty of 'honour killing'

Wednesday, February 23rd 2011, 1:47
related countries: United States

An Iraqi immigrant to the US is convicted in Arizona of the second degree murder of his daughter, in what prosecutors said was an honour killing.
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Bomb hits Iraq police in Samarra

Monday, February 21st 2011, 10:01
related places: Samarra'

A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker in the central Iraqi city of Samarra has killed 10 policemen and wounded 16 others, police say.
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Two dead in northern Iraq protest

Thursday, February 17th 2011, 18:42

Two people are killed when police open fire at a crowd protesting against corruption and high unemployment in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
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Car bomb blast kills 13 in Iraq

Thursday, February 17th 2011, 18:08

At least 13 people are killed and more than 30 injured in a car bomb attack in northern Iraq, local security officials say.
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Defector denies Iraqi WMD claims

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 11:07

An Iraqi defector whose claims that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons helped justify the war says he lied to bring the ex-leader down.
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Weir Group Iraq cash 'given back'

Sunday, February 13th 2011, 1:10

Cash confiscated from Glasgow-based Weir Group over Iraqi business dealings is to fund humanitarian projects.
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Iraq bomber kills Shia pilgrims

Saturday, February 12th 2011, 15:37
related places: Samarra'

A suicide bomber in Iraq strikes a bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Samarra, killing at least 27 people, police say.
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VIDEO: Egypt jubilation felt in Iran and Iraq

Saturday, February 12th 2011, 15:26
related countries: Iran

People across the Middle East have been reacting to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak
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VIDEO: Roadside bomb explodes in Iraq

Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 19:06
related places: Kirkuk

Three bombs have exploded in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 70, police say.
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Three bomb attacks in Iraqi north

Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 13:30
related places: Kirkuk

Three bombs explode within minutes of each other in the oil city of Kirkuk, all near a Kurdish security headquarters, police say.
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VIDEO: Roadside bomb explodes in Iraq

Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 10:49
related places: Kirkuk

Television pictures caught the moment a bomb exploded exploded in Kirkuk, at the side of a road used by emergency services to reach the scene of a previous blast.
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VIDEO: Rumsfeld defiant on Iraq war

Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 23:28
related countries: United States

Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld remains largely defiant about the Iraq war, saying in a new book that had Saddam Hussein remained in power, the Middle East would be "far more perilous than it is today".
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VIDEO: Rumsfeld no regrets over Iraq war

Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 13:37
related countries: United States

Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended decisions that he made during his time in office, in his first television interview since leaving public life in December 2006.
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US 'hiker spies' on trial in Iran

Sunday, February 6th 2011, 23:41
related countries: United States

The trial begins in Tehran of three Americans arrested while hiking near the Iraq-Iran border and accused of spying.
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Demand grows for flights to Iraq

Sunday, February 6th 2011, 11:57

This week sees the first Emirates flight to Basra, one of a number of airlines restarting flights to the key cities across Iraq.
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Iraq PM 'will not seek new term'

Saturday, February 5th 2011, 15:22

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki says he will not seek a third term in office when his mandate runs out in 2014.
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Rumsfeld defends US war in Iraq

Thursday, February 3rd 2011, 17:24
related countries: United States

In new memoirs, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld remains largely defiant about the war in Iraq, leaked extracts suggest.
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Straw denies regime change plan

Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 14:13
related countries: United Kingdom

Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insists regime change in Iraq was "never" UK policy, as the Iraq inquiry public hearings end.
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Blair 'feared Cabinet Iraq leaks'

Friday, January 28th 2011, 13:49
related countries: United Kingdom

Tony Blair was "reluctant" to hold Cabinet discussions about Iraq because he thought details would be leaked, the UK's top civil servant says.
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Car bomb at Iraq funeral kills 48

Thursday, January 27th 2011, 16:05
related places: Baghdad

A car bomb rips through a funeral tent in a mainly Shia area of Baghdad, killing 48 people and wounding dozens more.
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Sharing husbands

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 13:57

Is polygamy the answer for Iraq's one million war widows?
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Blasts strike pilgrims in Karbala

Monday, January 24th 2011, 14:58
related places: Karbala'

Two separate bomb attacks targeting Shia pilgrims in the Iraqi city of Karbala have killed 25 people and injured almost 70, officials say.
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Ex-soldier awaits murder verdict

Sunday, January 23rd 2011, 15:23
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Baghdad

An Iraqi court retires to consider a verdict in the case of a British security guard accused of murdering two colleagues in Baghdad.
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Baghdad hit by fresh car bombings

Sunday, January 23rd 2011, 8:52
related places: Baghdad

A series of car bombings across Baghdad kills at least four people and wounds a number of others, Iraqi officials say.
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Iraqi cleric Sadr 'back in Iran'

Saturday, January 22nd 2011, 21:22
related countries: Iran
related places: Sadr

The radical Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, has left the country for Iran, an aide tells the BBC.
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Blair's 'regret' over Iraq dead

Friday, January 21st 2011, 15:42
related countries: United Kingdom

Tony Blair says he "regrets" the loss of life in Iraq but urges the West to stop apologising for the 2003 war, in a four hour grilling by the Chilcot inquiry.
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Bombers kill many Iraqi pilgrims

Thursday, January 20th 2011, 17:40
related places: Karbala'

Two bombs near the Iraqi city of Karbala kill at least 50 people and wound many others during the Shia commemorations of Arbaeen.
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Baron Cohen to make Saddam film

Thursday, January 20th 2011, 17:31
related places: Saddam

Borat and Bruno actor Sacha Baron Cohen is to star in a comedy inspired by a book thought to have been written by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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Ambulance bomber hits Iraq police

Wednesday, January 19th 2011, 16:42

A suicide bomber uses an ambulance to attack a Baquba police compound, in the second deadly attack on Iraq's security forces in two days.
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Bomb kills Iraqi police recruits

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 16:38
related places: Tikrit

A suicide bomber kills at least 60 people and injures more than 100 outside a police recruitment centre in Tikrit, Iraqi officials say.
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Iraq inquiry criticises secrecy

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 16:38

The chairman of the Iraq inquiry criticises the government for refusing to release the details of comments between George Bush and Tony Blair.
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Restoring Eden out of Iraq's desert

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 12:04

The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq were once home to thousands of marsh Arabs, millions of birds and rebels fighting against Saddam Hussein.
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US soldiers killed in Mosul drill

Saturday, January 15th 2011, 16:07
related countries: United States
related places: Mosul

Two US soldiers are killed when an Iraqi soldier opens fire on them during a training exercise in northern Iraq, US and Iraqi officials say.
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Militants escape from Iraqi jail

Friday, January 14th 2011, 18:45

Iraq launches a manhunt after 12 militants linked to al-Qaeda break out of a prison in Basra in southern Iraq, officials say.
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Troops deployed 'to avoid cuts'

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 19:06
related countries: Afghanistan, United Kingdom

UK commanders were keen to redeploy Army troops leaving Iraq to Afghanistan because of fears they would be cut if they were not used, it is claimed.
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