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Ukraine — Ukraine will provide Iraq with $2.5 billion worth of weapons and military equipment under a deal intended to shore up Iraq's fledgling armed forces before the planned pullout of U.S. troops, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker said Wednesday. Anatoly...
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The White House on Tuesday strongly condemned a series of bombings in Baghdad that killed 127 people, a spokesperson said. "We strongly condemn the violence," said spokesperson Robert Gibbs after five massive vehicle-borne bombs rocked the Iraqi capital,...
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The militiamen of the Sahwa (Awakening) movement were manning a checkpoint in Nadeem village, 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the Iraqi capital on Monday, when gunmen using silencers approached at around 9 a.m. (0600 GMT) and shot them dead, AFP reported....
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An Iraqi election official says discussions are under way to set a new date for the country's parliamentary elections. The elections had been scheduled for Jan. 16, but officials are now studying at least a six-week delay until late February or early...
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Iraq's parliament is investigating 'bomb detectors' sold by a British company after claims they do not work, it emerged today. Iraqi security forces have spent $85million (£51million) on the devices, which are made in Somerset, over the...
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Iraqis spent $80m on ADE651 bomb detectors described as useless Simon de Bruxelles, and Oliver August in Baghdad The Iraqi parliament is looking into the sale by a British company of “bomb detectors” costing millions of pounds amid claims that they...
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In the first development, a man working for a weaving factory in Mosul was killed on Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on him near his house in the al-Shurta neighborhood in the northern part of the volatile northern Iraqi city. Security forces...
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Since the Invasion in 2003, at least 680 homosexual Iraqis have been murdered in Iraq, with at least 70 of these in the past five months. The numbers are likely under-reported, especially with homosexual women, where seven have been declared as brutally...
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MPs, human rights activists and churches on Monday rallied in support of 3,500 Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. At a press conference in Parliament, three Iranians on hunger strike spoke movingly about the plight of their relatives in Ashraf....
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