Police cracked down on demonstrators in central Cairo, arresting 100 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including one of its leaders, as they were protesting on Thursday near a Cairo court where two hearings for pro-reform figures were scheduled.
No image available
/ 27 December 2005
Violence increased across Iraq after a lull following the December 15 parliamentary elections, with at least two dozen people killed in shootings and bombings mostly targeting the Shi’ite-dominated security services. Officials blamed the surge in violence on insurgent efforts to deepen the political turmoil surrounding the contested vote.
No image available
/ 21 December 2005
A quieter Saddam Hussein sat in his defendant’s chair at the resumption of his trial on Wednesday, two weeks after he refused to attend the last session in a court he called "unjust". The deposed president, who was wearing a dark suit but no tie on Wednesday, refused to attend the previous session on December 7.
Kidnappers of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq have threatened to kill him because Egypt has allied with ”Jews and Christians,” according to a statement posted on Wednesday on an al-Qaeda-linked website. Meanwhile, a senior aide to radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr visited Bahrain’s diplomatic mission on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 7 February 2005
Insurgents struck at Iraqi police forces with a suicide bomb, a car bomb and mortars in the cities of Mosul and Baqouba on Monday, killing at least 30 people as they pressed their campaign to undermine the nation’s fledgling security forces. The Mosul blast was claimed on a website by the al-Qaeda in Iraq group.
No image available
/ 30 January 2005
Iraqis defied violence and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq’s first free election in half a century on Sunday. Insurgents seeking to wreck the vote struck polling stations with a string of suicide bombings and mortar volleys, killing at least 44 people, including nine attackers.
No image available
/ 10 February 2004
A car bomb exploded on Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. United States troops sealed off the area around the station and refused to allow journalists near the blast site.