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Detained American's Employer Appeals to Iran
Tehrān :: Iran | 27 days ago
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The director of the media organization Shane Bauer writes for has called on Iran to "show compassion and leniency," corroborating assertions that the U.S. journalist and his friends were simply enjoying a vacation in July when they apparently strayed...
Tags: Iran, Shane Bauer, Iraq, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, U.S. Hikers of Espionage, detained americans, northern iraq
Iran charges 3 US hikers with espionage
Tehrān :: Iran | 28 days ago
Credibility Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal, and Sarah Emily Shourd were arrested in the western Iranian district of Marivan, at Malakh-Khur border point on July 31. The three were traveling on Syrian and Iraqi visas and according to Iranian officials, crossed...
Tags: espionage, hikers, Iran-Iraq, Iranian, White House, Iraqi, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tehran, Northern Iraq, Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday
Three women and child die in northern Iraq floods
Three women and a child died in floods that hit the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday, a provincial governor and military officers told AFP.Severe rainstorms in the area surrounding the town of Mergasur, near the Iraq-Turkey border,...
Tags: Arbil, Three, women, child, die, northern Iraq, floods
Kurds united on Kirkuk
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 month ago
Credibility Kurdish political leaders in Iraq have called for a united stance on the issue of Kirkuk as a key election vote stalls in the Iraqi Parliament...That date is in jeopardy, however, as lawmakers have been unable to move forward with amendments to a 2005...
Tags: Northern Iraq, Kirkuk, election law
Suicide bombing hits Iraq mosque
Mosul :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility Details of the attack in Talafar, a town west of Mosul, are still coming in...The explosion was triggered as people gathered for the main congregational prayers of the week. Bookmark with:
Tags: Northern Iraq, Nineveh, nineveh province
Suicide Bomber Hits Mosque in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility A man carrying an assault rifle stood up during Friday Prayers in a violence- plagued town in northern Iraq and shot the prayer leader at point-blank range before spraying the prostrate worshipers around him with bullets and detonating the suicide belt...
Tags: Iraqi, suicide bomber, tal afar, bomber killing, northern iraq
Iraq releases Iranian dissidents
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
Credibility A spokeswoman for the group told the BBC they had been tortured in custody and were now being treated in hospital...Mojahedin-e Khalq, is considered a terrorist group by the US and Iran. It was removed from the EU and UK's lists of banned organisations...
Tags: Iraqi, iranians opposition, Iran, opposition members, iranians dissidents, Camp Ashraf, northern iraq, security force
Terrorist attacks across Iraq target cops
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
Credibility In a first development, an Iraqi policeman was gunned down on Saturday when unidentified assailants opened fire on him at a popular outdoor market in Bab al-Toub district, central Mosul. The armed men fled the scene after the incident, according to eyewitnesses.
Tags: Iraqi Intelligence Ministry, Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraqi Shia, west Mosul, U.S, drone crashes, political parties, islamic parties, northern iraq, Iraq, Baghdad
Iraqi bomb disposal soldiers die
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
Credibility 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, Iraq
Iraq Calls for UN Probe of Baghdad Bombings
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 months ago
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Tags: Iraqi, Iraq Calls, Saddam Hussein, Tikrit, Baghdad, awaiting execution, Syria, prisoners walls, northern iraq, Iraq
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