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Bombs kill scores in attacks on Iraq’s police

Bombs kill scores in attacks on Iraq’s police

Suicide bombers and other attackers killed at least 62 people in apparently coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces in Iraq on Wednesday.

Iraq historic oil and gas auction off to shaky start

Iraq auctioned off eight giant oil and gas fields on Tuesday in its first major tender since the 2003 invasion.

With CAP in hand

The battle for the heart of the South African university goes as far back as the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE) in 1996.

Iraqi Parliament’s Sunni leader killed at mosque

The head of the Iraqi Parliament’s biggest Sunni Muslim bloc was killed at a mosque on Friday, officials said.

Iraq PM: US agrees to withdraw troops by 2011

Iraq and the US have agreed that a planned security pact will require all US troops to leave by the end of 2011, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says.

Iraq’s al-Sadr threatens to scrap ceasefire

Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia last year, raising the prospect of worsening violence in Iraq just hours before top…

Turk envoy tells Iraq no timetable for pull-out

Turkey declined on Wednesday to give Baghdad a timetable for the withdrawal of troops fighting Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, resisting pressure from the United States and…

Hands up! Satirical paper takes aim at Iraq’s woes

An Iraqi man stands with his hands up in surrender, surrounded by an American soldier, Iraqi security forces, a militiaman, an al-Qaeda fighter and a faceless thug. ”Hands up!…

Iraq tribal leader who fought al-Qaeda killed

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…

Iraq court upholds Chemical Ali’s death sentence

An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence against Saddam Hussein’s cousin, widely known as Chemical Ali, for masterminding a genocide campaign against Iraq’s…

Five Britons abducted in Iraq, 10 US troops killed

Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped five Britons from a government building in Baghdad on Tuesday and the deaths of 10 United States soldiers were announced, making May the…

Dozens killed in Iraqi car bombings

Multiple car bombs exploded at about the same time and killed at least 40 people in a mainly Shi’ite town north of Baghdad on Thursday, officials said. A hospital source said in…

Iraqi police sell weapons on black market

Like many of his colleagues, Abu Zaid was issued an Austrian-made Glock pistol when he joined the new United States-trained and equipped Iraqi police force. But after narrowly…

Suicide bombers kill 61 in Iraqi town

Two suicide bombers killed 61 people and wounded 150 when they blew themselves up at a crowded market in Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslim town of Hilla on Thursday, police said. The blasts,…

Chaos hastens Iraq brain-drain

Six months after the United States invasion of Iraq, Esam Pasha, a 30-year-old Iraqi artist and writer, proudly painted a mural called Resilience over a giant portrait of Saddam…

US helicopters strike buildings in Baghdad battle

United States helicopters attacked gunmen holed up inside high-rise buildings in Baghdad on Wednesday in what the US military said was an operation to regain control of a major…

Saddam appeals controversial death sentence

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair…

Saddam ejected from trial, punch thrown

The chief judge ejected Saddam Hussein and a co-defendant punched one of the guards and denounced prosecutors as pimps and traitors during the toppled Iraq leader’s genocide…

Brother-in-law of Saddam trial judge killed

A brother-in-law of the judge trying Saddam Hussein for genocide was shot dead by gunmen while driving in western Baghdad, police said on Friday. A police source told Reuters…

Saddam ejected after trial starts with new judge

The new chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial ejected the ousted Iraqi leader from the courtroom for refusing to sit down moments after hearings began on Wednesday.…