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Three bombings targeting a meeting on national reconciliation Sunday killed at least 22 people and injured 45 more in the Iraqi city of al-Ramadi, police and witnesses said. The bombings targeted officials gathered in the headquarters of the al-Anbar's...
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A triple bombing aimed at a reconciliation meeting in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens today, highlighting fears that insurgents are regrouping in what was once the epicenter of their revolt.The...
Tags: car bombs, Iraqi, Ramadi, Anbar, bombs attack, anbar province, bombs killing
Two car bombs which exploded in quick succession near a provincial governor's office in western Iraq on Sunday killed at least eight people and wounded 50, a police official told AFP. The attack occurred in Ramadi, capital of the predominantly Sunni province...
Tags: Iraqi, Ramadi, cars bombs, Anbar Province, bombs killing, western iraq, parking lot, wound dozens, government buildings, twin cars
A pickup truck piled with explosives blew up in front of a restaurant frequented by Iraqi police near Fallujah on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding dozens more in the second attack in as many days in western Iraq . After the bombing, a curfew...
Tags: Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq, Western Iraq, cars bomb, Amiriyah Fallouja, Fallujah, iraqis police, Sunni Anbar, anbar province, iraq cars
Police said the death toll from Monday's attack in the town of Haditha in Anbar province, 190km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, could rise. Once the heartland of an intense Sunni Arab insurgency, Anbar province has calmed down since Sunni tribes...
Tags: Iraqi, suicide bomber, Western Iraq, Haditha, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, anbar province, Al Qaeda, Baghdad, bomber killing
Egyptian-mediated Palestinian reconciliation talks between rivals Fatah and Hamas set for next Saturday have been delayed for a month. A senior Fatah official on Saturday said that his movement and Hamas decided to postpone the talks until Aug. 25. Azzam...
Tags: Hamas and Fatah, Hamas-Fatah, car bomb, Iraqi, Ramadi, Baghdad, reconciliation talks, Al-Anbar, Egypt, anbar province
A suicide car bomb blast has killed six people and wounded 16 others in Iraq's western Anbar province. Two traffic police were among those killed in the attack at an intersection near an Iraqi police checkpoint in Ramadi, a city 60 miles west of Baghdad.
Tags: Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq news agency, Ramadi General Hospital, suicide bomber, car bomb, Baghdad, Anbar, anbar province, police checkpoint, traffic policemen
Tensions are high in Anbar, where some tribal leaders affiliated with the U.S.-backed "awakening" movement have threatened violence if they lose to their rival -- the older and more entrenched group called the Iraqi Islamic Party, which some accuse of...
Tags: Iraqi Islamic Party, Anbar Counts Votes, Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, anbar province, elections fraud
The Iraqi electoral commission is probing Wednesday serious allegations of electoral fraud in Anbar province in western Iraq that if confirmed could change the election results there...He said that some of the complaints are serious and we may send some...
Tags: Iraqi, Iraq Braces, New Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq, elections results, U.S, Anbar, anbar province, United States, Iran
The Interior Ministry says the additional forces, from Anbar province, have been sent to secure areas where foreign fighters are known to infiltrate Iraq. The police are expected to be deployed around the border town of Al Qaim, a known transit point...
Tags: Iraqi, Syrian, Anbar, anbar province