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The operation began late on Wednesday and is understood to be continuing. It is the first major Iraqi-led offensive in the area since US forces withdrew from urban areas of the country at the end of June. Some detainees are part of al-Qaeda in Iraq, others...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, security force
The People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran on Friday accused Iraqi security forces of beating and torturing 36 members of its organization before forcibly transferring them from the Khalis city prison to Baghdad. The organization reported in a statement...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, sunni insurgent, security forces, official says
For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed out rubble have been cleared and collapsed buildings resurrected, trash...
Tags: Sunni Arab, Mosul
The accidental explosions happened in northern Iraq, in a vacant area in Bashika, east of Mosul, as the soldiers were preparing for a controlled blast. The Iraqi army frequently undertakes controlled explosions in the area to dispose of confiscated weapons.
Tags: Iraqi Army, Shia Iraqi National Alliance, Tikrit City, Al Maliki, Baghdad, northern iraq, escaped prisoners, police source, Mosul
A five-year-old girl was killed and two of her siblings were wounded on Saturday when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in close proximity to their home in western Mosul, a police official told the Voices of Iraq news agency. The lethal incident...
Tags: Iraqi Army, Voices of Iraq, Mosul, stolen artefacts, qaeda members, northern iraq, Al Qaeda
Iraq overnight, including a truck bombing near the northern city of Mosul, police said. In the deadliest attack, the bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Tal Afar, a mostly Turkmen town near Mosul in restive Nineveh province, killing three civilians...
MOSUL: Two suicide bombers killed 17 people and wounded 26 in northern Iraq on Thursday, police said, in the latest of a spate of attacks in the volatile region. Two men entered a crowded cafe in Sinjar, whose inhabitants are from the minority Yazidi...
Tags: Iraqi, crowded cafe, Mosul, Sinjar, suicide bombs
Recent high-profile attacks in Baghdad and Mosul — and the political debate that has followed — suggest that al-Qaida in Iraq has dented Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's popularity in the run-up to the January election. In recent weeks, the death toll...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, suicide bomb, double suicide, Sinjar, Sunni Muslim group al-Qaida, Baghdad, suicide bombers
Chairman Mao during the Chinese civil war that eventually won him power...And barely a month after Iraqi troops took control of the main towns from the slowly departing Americans, blood is again gushing down boulevards. Over 100 civilians were killed...
Tags: Mosul
A series of bombings killed 48 people and wounded 231 in Iraq on Monday, the Ministry of Interior said, fueling fears of more sectarian violence. At least seven people were killed and 46 wounded when a car bomb exploded near laborers gathered in the...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, Baghdad, northern city, U.S, Shiite, Khaznah, truck bombs