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During the darkest days of the sectarian bloodletting that swept Iraq several years ago, few terrors equaled the rise of the death squads men in the guise of the Iraqi security forces who killed with impunity. The death squad killings not only inflamed...
Tags: Iraqi, Karbala, Baghdad, holy city, Iraq, War Conflict, Fertile Crescent, Terrorism in Iraq, Karbala bombings, Imam Abbas Mosque bombing, Shi'a Islam, British Mandate of Mesopotamia, Iraq spring fighting, Al-Qaeda, Politics, Tariq Al-Hashimi, Religion and violence, Death squad, Uprising in Karbala, Awakening movements, Islamic terrorism, Imam Hussein Mosque bombing, Iraqi Army
Bloom Properties, a developer based in Abu Dhabi, is in talks with the government of Iraq to build a multibillion-dollar property development in Karbala. Karbala is one of the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims and it drew 2 million pilgrims to the Imam...
Tags: Iraq, UAE, Dunia Frontier Consultants, Bloom Properties, property developers, Karbala, Basra, Western Asia, Politics of Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, Fertile Crescent, Arab League member states, Persian Gulf states, Business Finance
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Tags: Iraq, Baghdad, Fertile Crescent, Karbala, British Mandate of Mesopotamia
A bicycle loaded with explosives killed five people and wounded 37 at a market in Mussayab, south of Baghdad, on Sunday and a bomb on a bus killed at least three more further south in Kerbala, police and health officials said. The explosives in the first...
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Tags: Iraqi, Shiite Holy City, Karbala, Baghdad, Bill Richardson
The pilgrims were attacked as they drove through the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Dora en route to the holy Shiite city of Karbala 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, the official told AFP, requesting anonymity. Roads heading towards Karbala...
Tags: Kirkuk Iraqi, Northern Iraq, Voices of Iraq, Iraq Violence, Shiite Muslims, Baghdad, shiites pilgrim, Karbala, roadside bombs, target shiites
Lawmakers from several parties, both Sunni and Shia, made the demands in footage aired on Iraqi television. "I demand a committee of inquiry made up of members of the parliamentary committees on human rights, defense and security," Sunni MP Salim al-Juburi...
Tags: Iraqi, U.S, American, car bomb, use contractors, Karbala, Houston Chronicle, Baghdad
In remarks published in Baghdad's al-Sabbah daily, Iraqi Minister of State for National Dialogue Akram al-Hakim urged former members of the Iraqi Baath Party to sign off on the government's draft plan for national reconciliation, and to help identify...
Tags: Iraqi Baath Party, Karbala, Baghdad
Hundreds of thousands of Shiites mourned a revered imam under tight security in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Monday as eight people including pilgrims were killed in Baghdad bus bombings. Under the gaze of rooftop snipers, crowds of mourners chanting...
Tags: Iraq, Shiite Muslims, Muslim Shiites, shiite pilgrims, Baghdad, holy city, Karbala, Saddam Hussein, Imam Hussein, roadside bombs