Iraqi security forces backed by United States troops killed al-Qaeda’s top two leaders in Iraq.
The leader of one of Iraq’s most powerful Shi’ite Muslim political groups died on Wednesday, said his party’s parliamentary leader.
More than 100 Iraqi lawmakers have signed a request to summon the oil minister for a parliamentary grilling, deputies said on Wednesday.
An Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at George Bush was convicted of attempting to assault a foreign leader on Thursday and jailed for three years.
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/ 31 December 2008
The man putting together Iraq’s newest museum doesn’t like to be alone in his office, where he keeps bloodied nooses.
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/ 15 December 2008
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at United States President George Bush in a supreme insult has suddenly become the talk of Iraq.
Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday. More than eight hours after the Iraqi announcement, the United States military said it still had no confirmation that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian, had been seized.
A man seized by Iraqi forces is not the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a senior United States military official said on Friday, following an announcement by several Iraqi officials that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been captured. Security sources had already begun to cast doubt on the earlier announcement that Masri, an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, had been captured.
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/ 14 September 2007
A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al-Qaeda out of Iraq’s Anbar province was killed by a bomb on Thursday, hours before United States President George Bush endorsed limited US troop cuts in Iraq. Abdul Sattar Abu Risha died in an attack on his car near his home in Ramadi, capital of Anbar.
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/ 9 September 2007
Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday his government had made progress on all fronts and urged neighbouring countries to work together to stop what he called ”evil” from destabilising the region. Senior Democrats in the United States have slammed Maliki’s performance, with some even calling for his replacement.