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Accented on the second syllable, that means the ill wind that blows in summer across Iraq, and other countries in the region, stirring sandstorms in its wake. Vice President Joe Biden found out late last week what 25 million Iraqis have known for a long...
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Hailing the withdrawal as an "important milestone,” Obama called on Iraqi leaders to "make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions to advance opportunity.” "Make no mistake; there will be difficult days ahead. We know that the violence...
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Tuesday's deadline for American troops to leave Iraqi cities gives U.S. commanders a new focus: securing rural areas that they say insurgents are using as hide-outs to plan attacks...Stephen Lanza, the U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said the aim is...
Tags: Iraqi, Baghdad, U.S, Nouri al-Maliki, iraqis city, Mosul, minister nouri, car bomb, combat troops, prime minister
Ms Gillard also signed a series of agreements with the Iraqi government that she says will help strengthen democracy in Iraq. She says the two countries hope to further develop trade relations and will collaborate on projects to improve Iraq's health...
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Iraq's prime minister appealed for national unity on Saturday and the country's vice president said he was worried about deteriorating security after more than 250 people were killed in the week before a U.S. withdrawal from cities. The Shiite prime...
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BAGHDAD: A bomb killed 10 people and wounded 25 when it exploded in a vehicle market in central Baghdad on Friday, just four days before US combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns. Police said the bomb was planted on a motorbike...
Tags: Southern Baghdad, Iraqi, U.S, bombs attack, parking lot, Kirkuk, Baiyaa, eastern baghdad, roadside bombs, iraqis city
A string of attacks has cast doubt on the ability of Iraqi forces to keep the lid on a stubborn insurgency after US combat troops withdraw from towns and cities at the end of this month. Police in Falluja in Anbar province, once the heartland of the rebellion...
Tags: Iraqi, Baghdad, combat troops, central baghdad, iraqis city, iraqis security, American, bomb killing
One was believed to have been hidden under a pile of vegetables on the back of a motorcycle rickshaw in a popular marketplace. The blast happened at sunset in a crowded slum neighbourhood of Sadr City, which like many Shia, or mixed areas of the country,...
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Six people were killed and 35 wounded in an explosion near a Shiite shrine in the central Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Thursday, medical sources said. "Six people have been killed and 35 wounded," an ambulance driver told AFP , although accounts of the...
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Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said here on Monday it was not sustainable to keep many Australian troops abroad. "Our troops are overstretched, with commitments in East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq," he told reporters. "Roughly half...
Tags: Iraq, Mosul University, University of Mosul, car bomb, prime minister, suicide car, local police, deputy dean, police headquarters, iraqis city