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The attack occurred in early afternoon in the Al-Maliya district of the troubled city of Mosul, north of Baghdad, according to local police commander Ahmed al-Jaaburi. The US military considers Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, to be the last urban stronghold...
Tags: Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq news agency, Northern Iraq, Iraq Directory, NIraq, Mosul, provincial elections, car bomb, Nouri Maliki, iraqis soldiers
The short-term focus for U.S. military operations in Iraq is finding a security balance in the run-up to provincial elections Jan. 31, commanders say...Baghdad, including the Kurdish provinces and volatile Diyala province. Caslen said his immediate focus...
Tags: election, iraq, iraqi elections, Iraqi National List, kurdish militias, Mosul
Hassan Zaidan al-Luhaibi, vice- president of the Sunni National Dialogue bloc, was killed at a campaign meeting south of the city of Mosul. Mr Luhaibi was leading his party's campaign for provincial elections to be held at the end of this month...Sunni...
Tags: Iraqi National Dialogue Front, Iraqi Sunni Arab, sunni arabs, suicide bomber, N. Iraq Bomb Attack, deputy leaders, provincial elections, Mosul, northern iraq, Hassan Zaidan al-Lihebi
An Iraqi army soldier was injured on Friday in a blast that targeted an army convoy in the northern city of Mosul, a security source told the Voices of Iraq news agency. “An improvised explosive device went off on Friday targeting a convoy...of the Iraqi...
Tags: iraq, christians, Voices of Iraq, Mosul, Iraqi
Mr. de Mistura heads, he noted there has been other election-related violence in Mosul in the past 10 days, including raids and attacks against candidates of the Hadba party. "Campaign violence in Iraq must not be allowed to intimidate candidates or interfere...
Tags: violence, election, elections, attacks, gunmen, Mosul, Iraq
Three Iraqi policemen and an army captain were killed in separate bombings Thursday in the restive northern city of Mosul and in Khanaqin near the Iranian border, security officials said. An official in Mosul, who declined to be named, said the policemen...
Tags: iraq, bomb, Iraqi, violence, Mosul, Sinjar, cars bombs, source told, northern iraq, blasts killing
Despite some recent security gains, Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's Nineveh province still remains a volatile region in Iraq. The city is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. The latest death takes to 4,217 the number of military personnel...
Tags: military, soldier, killed, Iraq, militants, security, war, Mosul, israel, attack near
Iraqi police say an officer was killed when gunmen fired on a police patrol in the restive northern city of Mosul. The shooting took place Saturday at the Al-Sha'areen market in the center of Mosul, said a police officer on condition of anonymity because...
Khalaf says sectarian and ethnic violence killed thousands of Iraqis. "Now that we have crossed that hurdle and destroyed the incubators of terrorism," he says, "and the security situation is good, we have to go back and strengthen community ties." In...
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Albania has begun pulling its troops out of Iraq, the defense ministry said Thursday. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Albana Mustafaraj said the country's Defense Minister Gazmend Oketa has traveled to Iraq to bring back its 218 troops serving there....
Tags: iraq, Iraqi, Defense Ministry, Albania, Mosul, minister gazmend, Albana Mustafaraj, Gazmend Oketa