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 'fails to meet key targets'
• Iraq 'finalises unity government' – Iraq bomb attacks leave 16 dead
• Iraq bomb death toll reaches 250 – Iraq court names new Saddam judge
• Iraq crackdown 'doomed to fail' – Iraq hangs 13 for insurgency role
• Iraq head urges end to bloodshed – Iraq MPs condemn parliament blast
• Iraq MPs rage over shoe thrower – Iraq power system 'near collapse'
• Iraq powers plan Egypt talks – Iraq shoe thrower freed from jail
• Iraq shoe thrower release delayed – Iraq troops take control in Amara
• Iraq troops vote in local polls – Iraqi archbishop death condemned
• Iraqi army 'saves British troops' – Iraqi Kurds 'tortured prisoners'
• Iraqi Kurds launch poll campaign – Iraqi PM lifts Sadr City cordon
• Iraqi PM makes first Syria visit – Iraqi Sunni tribal leader killed
• Iraqi Sunnis seized amid killings – Italy mulls 2006 Iraq withdrawal
• Italy to pull out of Iraq in 2006 – Kurds 'will fight Turkish raids'
• Kurds condemn Iraq report – Marine 'justifies' Iraq deaths
• Marine avoids Iraq murder charge – Mubarak warns on Saddam execution
• Multiple Baghdad attacks kill 47 – No victory in Iraq, says Petraeus
• No-one else to blame, says Saddam – Plane arrest for ex-Iraq minister
• Plea for Frenchman held in Iraq – Report probes US custody deaths
• Reporting struggle – S Korea to pull troops from Iraq
• S Korea to table Iraq troops cut – Saddam trial hears Kurd witness
• Saddam trial hears of gas attacks – Seven killed in bombings in Iraq
• Seven killed in Iraq bomb attacks – Sudan to abandon Iraq embassy
• Sudan to help Iraq's Palestinians – Ten killed in Baghdad car blast
• Ten killed in Iraq convoy attack – Troops out
• Troops pact – Turkish troops 'kill PKK rebels'
• Turkish troops enter north Iraq – UK officer 'abused Iraqi prisoners'
• UK PM 'to confirm Iraq timetable' – Unicef warns of Iraqis 'at risk'
• Uniformed Iraqi kills US soldiers – US and Iran to hold talks on Iraq
• US and Iraq seek to heal strains – US drops marine's Haditha charges
• US echoes Iraq civil war warning – US House clashes on Iraq policy
• US House passes Iraq funding bill – US memo raises Iraq PM doubts
• US memo reveals Iraqis' grim life – US releases five Iranians in Iraq
• US releases Iraqi women prisoners – US soldier spared death penalty
• US soldier's murder trial begins – US troops to hand over Karbala
• US troops' Iraq leave bid blocked – Welcome awaits Iraq shoe thrower
• Western forces 'in Basra raids' – Zawahiri tape praises insurgency

Iraq: news

$10m reward to find Iraq killers

Friday, June 30th 2006, 15:28
related countries: Russia

Russia offers $10m (£5.4m) for information on the militants who killed four Russian diplomats in Iraq.
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'Al-Qaeda boys' in training video

Thursday, February 7th 2008, 4:58
related countries: United States

US and Iraqi forces release video purporting to show young children taking part in deadly training exercises.
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'Al-Qaeda figure' killed in Iraq

Friday, September 28th 2007, 18:47
related countries: United States

The US military says it has killed a senior al-Qaeda figure in an air strike in Iraq, naming him as Abu Osama al-Tunisi.
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'Al-Qaeda group' flees Iraq jail

Thursday, September 24th 2009, 12:12
related places: Baghdad, Tikrit

Sixteen members of al-Qaeda in Iraq escape from a prison in Tikrit north of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials say.
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'Al-Qaeda gunmen' killed in Iraq

Friday, June 22nd 2007, 18:23
related countries: United States

US helicopters kill 17 suspected al-Qaeda-linked gunmen near Baquba north of Baghdad, the US military says.
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'Al-Qaeda' members killed in Iraq

Friday, June 20th 2008, 12:35
related countries: United States

The US military says four militants have been killed during operations against the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
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'Americans tortured me' - Saddam

Wednesday, December 21st 2005, 19:47
related places: Baghdad, Saddam

Saddam Hussein tells his Baghdad trial he has been beaten "on every part of my body", which the US denies.
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'Anti-gay hell'

Saturday, April 18th 2009, 2:06

Iraqi homosexuals face humiliation, abuse and death
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'Arrested men' killed in Baghdad

Saturday, February 4th 2006, 10:53
related places: Baghdad

The bodies of 14 Sunni Muslims are found in Baghdad a week after they were said to have been arrested.
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'Bin Laden call' to Iraq fighters

Monday, October 22nd 2007, 19:55

In a tape said to be from Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader appeals for unity among Iraqi insurgents.
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'Bin Laden' in Palestinian call

Friday, March 21st 2008, 9:38

A second audio message in two days, purportedly from the al-Qaeda leader, urges Palestinians to fight in Iraq.
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'Chemical Ali' execution approved

Friday, February 29th 2008, 13:17

The execution of Saddam Hussein's henchman "Chemical Ali" is finally approved by Iraq's presidency.
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'Chemical Ali' faces his accusers

Monday, September 24th 2007, 15:22
related places: Baghdad

Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", is back in court in Baghdad.
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'Chemical Ali' sentence confirmed

Tuesday, September 4th 2007, 13:17
related places: `Ali, Saddam

A court upholds the death sentence against Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali".
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'Chemical Ali' sentenced to hang

Sunday, June 24th 2007, 10:54

Saddam Hussein's cousin and two others are sentenced to death in Iraq for the murder of Kurds in a 1988 campaign.
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'Children used' in Iraq bombing

Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 22:41
related countries: United States

A US military official says insurgents in Iraq used children in a bomb attack, raising fears of new tactics.
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'Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village

Wednesday, May 16th 2007, 11:56

At least 32 people are killed and 50 injured in a suspected chlorine bombing in Iraq's Diyala province, police say.
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'Critical time' for Iraq security

Monday, April 23rd 2007, 9:57
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

The new US ambassador talks of critical months ahead for Iraq, and defends the idea of a wall in central Baghdad.
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'Dead' al-Qaeda man's tape aired

Saturday, May 5th 2007, 10:08

A recording said to be of al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - believed killed this week - appears on a militant website.
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'Dime a dozen'

Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 17:32

Teenage Islamists fighting coalition forces in Iraq
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'Dozens dead' in Baghdad bombing

Tuesday, March 10th 2009, 17:13
related places: Baghdad

At least 33 people die in a suicide attack on dignitaries at a reconciliation conference in Baghdad, security officials say.
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'Dozens dead' in Turkish assault

Saturday, February 23rd 2008, 5:22
related countries: Turkey

Turkey says dozens of Kurdish rebels have been killed as its ground assault in northern Iraq enters a third day.
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'Endgame' for US mission in Iraq

Saturday, December 13th 2008, 18:39
related countries: United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates tells US troops in Iraq that their mission in the country is in its "endgame".
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'Explosions strike' Iranian city

Monday, May 8th 2006, 17:25
related countries: Iran
related places: Kermanshah

At least six are injured in explosions in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, close to Iraq, says a report.
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'Fair probe' vow on Iraq gunfight

Monday, September 17th 2007, 23:25
related countries: United States
related places: Baghdad

A "fair and transparent" probe will be held into a Baghdad gunfight involving a US firm, says Iraq's prime minister.
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'Female bomber' kills six in Iraq

Wednesday, March 19th 2008, 11:58
related countries: United States
related places: Kirkuk

A woman suicide bomber has killed six people at a bus station in Balad Ruz in Diyala province, Iraqi police say.
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'Free Iraq hostages,' says UK

Sunday, December 9th 2007, 17:20
related countries: United Kingdom

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls for the release of five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq in May.
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'Guantanamo man' in Iraq attack

Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 18:21
related countries: Kuwait, United States

A former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in Iraq, the US says.
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'Hidden costs raise' US war price

Tuesday, November 13th 2007, 18:31
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

The cost of the US military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan is almost double the official figure, a US report says.
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'High turnout' in Iraqi election

Thursday, December 15th 2005, 17:48
related countries: United States

Iraqis vote in large numbers for their first full-term government since the US-led invasion in 2003.
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'Huge rise' in Iraqi death tolls

Wednesday, October 11th 2006, 17:42
related countries: United States

An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion, a US-Iraqi academic study says.
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'Hundreds' killed in Iraq battles

Monday, January 29th 2007, 19:05
related countries: United States

Iraqi and US troops kill about 200 militants in fierce fighting around the city of Najaf, Iraqi officials say.
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'Ill' Iraqi cleric courts press

Sunday, August 24th 2008, 21:25
related places: `Ali

Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Ali al-Sistani, says rumours that he is seriously ill are untrue.
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'Illusion' of safety

Tuesday, August 11th 2009, 9:57

Co-ordinated bombings raise fears across Iraq
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'Iraq al-Qaeda' makes kidnap call

Thursday, September 28th 2006, 17:17

The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq calls for kidnapping of Westerners, according to a web recording.
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'Iraq al-Qaeda' welcomes US poll

Friday, November 10th 2006, 16:22
related countries: United States

A statement purportedly from the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq hails the Republicans' losses in US mid-term polls.
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'Iraq hostage Briton' video aired

Tuesday, February 26th 2008, 18:59

An Arabic satellite television channel shows a video claiming to show one of five Britons captured in Iraq eight months ago.
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'Kill Iraqis marine song' probe

Tuesday, June 13th 2006, 21:53
related countries: United States

The US marines criticises a video posted online apparently showing a US Marine singing about killing Iraqi civilians.
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'Many dead' in Iraq truck bombing

Saturday, June 20th 2009, 21:48
related places: Kirkuk

At least 64 people have been killed by a suicide truck bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police say.
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'Many killed' in Iraq car bombing

Friday, September 12th 2008, 19:25
related places: Baghdad

At least 28 people have been killed in a car bomb attack on a police station north of Baghdad, police say.
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'Millions missing' from Iraq fund

Friday, December 7th 2007, 11:31
related countries: United States

US military auditors say they cannot fully account for spending a $5.2bn (£2.6bn) Iraqi training and supply fund.
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'Mis-timed' bomb kills 10 Iraqis

Sunday, June 3rd 2007, 10:55

At least 10 people are killed by a car bomb in an Iraqi market that police said was aimed at them.
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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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'National crisis' for Iraqi women

Thursday, March 6th 2008, 17:32
related countries: United States

The situation for women in Iraq has become a "national crisis" since the 2003 US-led invasion, a report says.
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'New chairman' for Saddam trial

Monday, January 16th 2006, 18:50
related places: Saddam

The trial of Saddam Hussein will resume in Iraq next week despite the resignation of the chief judge, officials say.
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'Nine dead' in Iraq market blast

Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 17:12

A car bomb in a market near the Iraqi city of Falluja kills at least nine people and wounds dozens more, police say.
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'Nine militants killed' in Iraq

Thursday, March 6th 2008, 13:54
related countries: United States
related places: Sunday

US and Iraqi forces killed nine suspected al-Qaeda fighters near Talafar on Sunday, the US military says.
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'No evidence' Saddam was tortured

Thursday, December 22nd 2005, 16:20
related countries: United States
related places: Saddam

An Iraqi judge says he had no complaints from Saddam Hussein about having been tortured in US custody.
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'No more need' for British troops

Monday, October 13th 2008, 12:48
related countries: United Kingdom

The Iraqi prime minister has said British troops are no longer needed to maintain security in Iraq.
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'No quick success' in Afghanistan

Wednesday, December 9th 2009, 17:41
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

A top US general says military success in Afghanistan is likely to be slower than in Iraq after the troop surge there.
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'No Saddam link to Iraq al-Qaeda'

Friday, September 8th 2006, 16:43
related countries: United States

There is no evidence of links between Iraqi ex-leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, says the US Senate.
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'No timetable' for Iraq progress

Friday, January 12th 2007, 21:35
related countries: United States
related places: Senate

The US defence secretary says there is no timetable for Iraq to comply with President Bush's new strategy.
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'No timetable' for Turkey assault

Wednesday, February 27th 2008, 19:56
related countries: Turkey

A Turkish official says military action against the PKK in northern Iraq will go on "until terrorist bases are eliminated".
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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 'fails to meet key targets'Iraq 'finalises unity government' – Iraq bomb attacks leave 16 deadIraq bomb death toll reaches 250 – Iraq court names new Saddam judgeIraq crackdown 'doomed to fail' – Iraq hangs 13 for insurgency roleIraq head urges end to bloodshed – Iraq MPs condemn parliament blastIraq MPs rage over shoe thrower – Iraq power system 'near collapse'Iraq powers plan Egypt talks – Iraq shoe thrower freed from jailIraq shoe thrower release delayed – Iraq troops take control in AmaraIraq troops vote in local polls – Iraqi archbishop death condemnedIraqi army 'saves British troops' – Iraqi Kurds 'tortured prisoners'Iraqi Kurds launch poll campaign – Iraqi PM lifts Sadr City cordonIraqi PM makes first Syria visit – Iraqi Sunni tribal leader killedIraqi Sunnis seized amid killings – Italy mulls 2006 Iraq withdrawalItaly to pull out of Iraq in 2006 – Kurds 'will fight Turkish raids'Kurds condemn Iraq report – Marine 'justifies' Iraq deathsMarine avoids Iraq murder charge – Mubarak warns on Saddam executionMultiple Baghdad attacks kill 47 – No victory in Iraq, says PetraeusNo-one else to blame, says Saddam – Plane arrest for ex-Iraq ministerPlea for Frenchman held in Iraq – Report probes US custody deathsReporting struggle – S Korea to pull troops from IraqS Korea to table Iraq troops cut – Saddam trial hears Kurd witnessSaddam trial hears of gas attacks – Seven killed in bombings in IraqSeven killed in Iraq bomb attacks – Sudan to abandon Iraq embassySudan to help Iraq's Palestinians – Ten killed in Baghdad car blastTen killed in Iraq convoy attack – Troops outTroops pact – Turkish troops 'kill PKK rebels'Turkish troops enter north Iraq – UK officer 'abused Iraqi prisoners'UK PM 'to confirm Iraq timetable' – Unicef warns of Iraqis 'at risk'Uniformed Iraqi kills US soldiers – US and Iran to hold talks on IraqUS and Iraq seek to heal strains – US drops marine's Haditha chargesUS echoes Iraq civil war warning – US House clashes on Iraq policyUS House passes Iraq funding bill – US memo raises Iraq PM doubtsUS memo reveals Iraqis' grim life – US releases five Iranians in IraqUS releases Iraqi women prisoners – US soldier spared death penaltyUS soldier's murder trial begins – US troops to hand over KarbalaUS troops' Iraq leave bid blocked – Welcome awaits Iraq shoe throwerWestern forces 'in Basra raids' – Zawahiri tape praises insurgency