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Terrorist attacks across Iraq target cops
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
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In a first development, an Iraqi policeman was gunned down on Saturday when unidentified assailants opened fire on him at a popular outdoor market in Bab al-Toub district, central Mosul. The armed men fled the scene after the incident, according to eyewitnesses.
Tags: Iraqi Intelligence Ministry, Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraqi Shia, west Mosul, U.S, drone crashes, political parties, islamic parties, northern iraq, Iraq, Baghdad
Iraqi Shi'ite party leader dies, successor eyed
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility BAGHDAD: The leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim political groups and most important religious dynasties died on Wednesday, adding to political uncertainty in a violent run-up to an election next January. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who headed...
Tags: Iraqi Baath Party, Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Iraqi Shiite, Iraqi Shia, Syria, Iran, Saddam Hussein
Powerful Iraqi Shiite leader dies in Iran
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most influential politicians, died Wednesday in Iran, the country that was long his key ally.
Tags: Iraqi Shiite, Powerful Iraqi, Iraqi National Alliance, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Iraq Shiite, Iraqi Shia, Iraq Shia, Shiite Leader Hakim Dies, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim
Iraqi cleric Sadr visits Damascus, meets Assad
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
Credibility Hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movements are usually kept secret, is visiting Syria and has met Syrian President Bashar Assad, an official said Tuesday. At their meeting on Monday they discussed “the latest developments in Iraq” and “the...
Tags: Iraqi Shia, Iraq Hopes, U.S, Barack Obama, Syria, Obama White House, Baghdad, bombs attacks
Syria: President meets radical Iraqi Shia cleric
Damascus :: Syria | 4 months ago
Credibility Syria's president Bashar al-Assad on Monday met radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Damascus, Syrian news agency Sana reported. The two men discussed the situation in Iraq since the pullback of US troops from urban areas last month, according...
Tags: Syrian, Iraqi Shia, French, Bashar al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad
Kidnap suspect militant freed from prison
Baghdad :: Iraq | 6 months ago
Credibility The British embassy confirmed that Khazaali had been released into Iraqi custody three days ago, but did not know if the dissident had subsequently been freed by the authorities. The hostages are IT consultant Peter Moore, working for US management consultancy...
Tags: Iraqi Shiite, Iraqi Shia, U.S, Laith al-Khazali, Baghdad, Iran, militant linked, shia militant, shiite militant
Iraq cleric attends Turkey talks
Ankara :: Turkey | 7 months ago
Credibility Officials said he met both Turkey's president and the prime minister. The powerful cleric had fiercely opposed the foreign presence in Iraq and his Mehdi army fought troops until he suspended the movement last year. He last spoke in public at a mosque...
Tags: Iraqi Shia, Turkey, Turkish-Armenian, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ankara, prime minister, moqtada al, political process, Moqtada
Car bomb hits Iraq cattle market
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 months ago
Credibility A car bomb exploded as people were buying and selling cattle in the busy market in Hamza, near the city of Hilla in Babil province, police said. This is one of the biggest attacks in Iraq in recent months, in a part of the country that was relatively...
Tags: Iraqi Parliament, Iraqi Shia, Voices of Iraq, prime minister, Saddam Hussein, Nouri al-Maliki, minister nouri, Nouri al-Maliki, Nouri Maliki, iraqis prime
Maliki set for Iraq election boost
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 months ago
Credibility The party of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, appeared set for a boost as initial tallies from Saturday's provincial elections indicated voters had bought into its law and order campaign. The elections for provincial councils were Iraq's first...
Tags: Iraqi Election, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Iraqi Shia, Iraqis Killed, provincial elections, Independent High Electoral Commission, iraqis elections
Sadr suspends militia activity indefinitely
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sadr suspends militia activity indefinitely Iraqi Shia radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr said yesterday that he has suspended indefinitely the activity of his feared 60,000 strong militia, the Mahdi Army. "The Mahdi Army suspension will be valid indefinitely...
Tags: Mahdi Army, Moqtada al-Sadr, sadr suspended, Iraqi Shia, Muqtada al-Sadr, Sadr City, suspended militia, army activity, Hussein Iraq, militia activity
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