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Hundreds back Maliki amid calls for Iraq PM to quit
Anti-government rallies blocked a key highway linking Baghdad to Jordan and Syria for a third week, while protests were also held in Samarra, Tikrit, Baiji and Mosul, all Sunni-majority areas north of the capital
Iraq anti-government rallies draw thousands
Protesters called for a mass prisoner release, stronger human rights provisions in Iraq’s prisons, and a repeal of current anti-terror legislatio
Attacks down but Iraq in ‘low-level war’
A total of 144 people were killed across Iraq last month, including 40 policemen and 15 soldiers
Wave of Iraq attacks kills 22
total of 15 shootings and bombings struck 13 cities and towns in the north, central and south of Iraq
Protest against Iraq PM blocks highway to Syria
Sectarian tensions are still significant in Iraq, which suffered years of brutal confessional violence
Political turmoil marks Iraq’s first post-US year
Disputes among Iraqi politicians escalated as US troops departed on 18 December
Syrian regime draws battle lines as rebels advance
The army aims to take total control of Damascus
Iraq PM warns Kurd security forces to stay put
Kurdish leaders want to expand their autonomous region across a swathe of territory that stretches from Iraq’s eastern border with Iran to its western frontier with Syria
Israel shells Syria after fire hit military vehicle on Golan
Latest in several exchanges over the past week
Iraq bombings kill 19 on eve of Muslim new year
No group claimed responsibility for the violence
IAEA says Iran clean-up of Parchin site ‘ongoing’
The IAEA wants Iran to grant access to Parchin, which it visited twice in 2005 but wants to examine again
Iraq cancels $4.2 bn Russia arms deal over graft concerns
Had the deal been finalised and implemented, it would have made Russia Baghdad’s second-biggest arms supplier, after the United States
Iraq expels Turkish firm from oil exploration deal
The exploration deal was for a tract of land in oil-rich Basra province and had been awarded in May to Kuwait Energy, TPAO and Dragon Oil of the United Arab Emirates
Iraq Eid attacks kill sixteen
Iraq Eid celebrations shattered by bomb and shooting attacks across the country
Baghdad anti-Shi’a attacks kill at least eight
Four car bombs exploded in Shuala and three others were set off in Chikouk, an interior ministry official said, putting the overall toll from the attacks at 11 dead and 32 wounded.
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Iraq Central Bank head suspended, Mubarak’s Laundromat
Iraq attacks kill at least eight
Baghdad, (AFP) — A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad on Monday killed at least eight people, while a prisoner on death row escaped from a police station south of the capital. The attacks, which killed four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, came after a deadly bombing targeted Iraqi …
Russia seals $4.2 bn in arms deals with Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agree on weapons deals totalling over $4.2 billion.
Suicide car bomb in Iraq kills four school children
Car bomb explodes next to school, kills four and injures six
US decides MEK no longer terrorists
Mujahedeen Khalq is to be removed from the United States terrorist organisations list
Iraq aims to unite with new national anthem, flag
Iraq aiming to create new unifying national symbols
Britain, Sweden silent on Ecuador Assange proposal
Assange still fears Sweden will hand him over to the United States
The volcano erupts
The outpouring of rage in Islamic countries isn’t just about a low-budget film insulting the prophet Muhammad. It is the eruption of a volcano that has been simmering for the past eleven years
Iraqi VP sentenced to death
Ongoing turmoil in Iraq as top Iraqi politician is sentenced to death in absentia
Kurdish oil dispute: US advocates companies to cooperate with Baghdad
Baghdad threatens Kurds with budget cuts
Desmond Tutu calls on ICC to try Bush and Blair
Tutu believes legality of the US-led invasion of Iraq and civilian casualties justify investigation
Rumours and horror-stories mix as Iraq tries “terrorism” suspects
Iraq trying suspects of terrorism remains unconfirmed
Syria’s battling economy may hold on with help from friends
Russia, Iran and Iraq may support the Syrian economy, despite of the revolution and international sanctions
Iraq angered by Kurdish deal with French Total
Total penned a deal for Halfaya with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil at the end of 2009
Five killed in Iraq attacks
A roadside bomb and a drive-by shooting killed five and injured another five on Sunday, reported the Associated Press. The bomb reportedly killed three police officers in Jurf Al-Sakhar, a town south of Baghdad. The drive-by shooting in the Baghdad neighborhood of Jihad killed two civilians near a government office responsible for overseeing Sunni administration …