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A Chaldean Catholic church, rectory and convent in the northern Iraq city of Mosul were bombed in two separate incidents in late November, but no one was injured...Ephrem's Church Nov. 26, and the building was reduced to a "blackened shell," said a Nov....
Tags: Emil Nona of Mosul, New Mosul, Iraq, Mosul, Fertile Crescent, Paulos Faraj Rahho, Assyria, Chaldeans, Chaldean Catholic Church, Ninawa Governorate, Religion Belief
including five policemen and six civilians -- were injured Monday evening when two thermal bombs exploded at the crowded artists' syndicate in Kirkuk's al-Hawijah district. Security forces quickly moved in to cordon off the area and launched an investigation...
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Like judges anywhere, Mosul's lead investigative judge is a harried man with stacks of files on his desk and dozens of visitors milling outside his office. It's the death threats slid under his door, gunshots fired inside the courthouse and a growing...
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Throughout the day, they poured into the mausoleum in Saddam's hometown of Awja where the ex-president and his two sons, Uday and Qusay, are buried. Saddam was actually hanged on 30 December 2006, which marked that year the first day of the Muslim festival...
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Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul, replacing suicide bombings as the worst nightmare for residents of the northern Iraqi city. A dusty, brooding city of three million people, Mosul has...
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State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency. Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn Muhammed al-Umari,...
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The incident was met with reactions among Iraqi Turkmen, and condemnation from Turkey. According to Turkmen officials, unidentified men arrived at Efendioglu's house Sunday night and asked his son that they wanted to see his father and shot him dead when...
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Efendi was a member of the executive committee of the Turkmen Front, Iraq's main Turkmen political party. "His son answered the door and they asked to speak to his father. When he arrived at the door they opened fire," Turkmen MP Safaeddin Arkij said.
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Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has an unusual proposal to mend some of Iraq 's sectarian wounds: He offers mixed couples a $2,000 "gift" if they get married...As sectarian fighting ripped apart the country, intermarriage became a rarity. Now that...
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A recent meeting between Iraq�s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Kurdish President Massoud Barzani appears to be a crucial step in lowering tensions in the country, but it has also prompted questions as to whether the two leaders can put an end to their...
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