December 23, 2011
Iraqi security forces inspect the site of the bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shaab District, northern Baghdad, December 22, 2011. A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines. The [...]
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December 18, 2011
US soldiers wave at their comrades as they cross the border between Iraq and Kuwait. The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait on Sunday, nearly nine years after launching a divisive war to oust Saddam Hussein, and just as the oil-rich country grapples with renewed political deadlock. The last of roughly 110 [...]
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December 15, 2011
US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]
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January 28, 2010
At least 18 people were killed and some 80 others injured when a suicide minibus bomber struck the government forensics building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. U.S. soldiers secure the site of a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 26, 2010. A suicide blast killed at least 17 people at [...]
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September 15, 2009
The Iraqi television reporter, who was jailed for hurling his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush, was released from a Baghdad prison on Tuesday. Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi (C with beard and sunglasses) is seen upon arrival at the Al-Baghdadya television station following his release from prison in Baghdad September 15, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters [...]
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September 11, 2009
At least 25 people were killed and some 75 others injured in a series of bombings across Iraq Thursday. Spate of explosions in Iraq chills worsened stability The most deadliest blast in the day was in northern Iraq when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed truck bomb and blew it up among clay and stone [...]
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August 24, 2009
Iraqi military spokesman Sunday announced the arrest of the mastermind of Wednesday’s deadly truck bombings in central Baghdad, the state-run television of Iraqia reported. A photo taken from a Baghdad Operations Command television screen shows a man identified as former police chief named Wissam Ali Khadhim during a media conference in Baghdad August 23, 2009. [...]
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August 20, 2009
A series of deadly bomb attacks struck Baghdad Wednesday with at least 97 people killed and about 585 others injured. A wounded man leaves the scene of an explosion outside the foreign ministry in central Baghdad, August 19, 2009.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)The bloodiest attacks occurred when two truck bombs struck the Iraqi Foreign and Finance Ministries before [...]
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August 11, 2009
At least 49 people were killed and 260 wounded in a series of deadly bomb attacks across Iraq on Monday, raising fear for a return of sectarian bloodshed between Sunni and Shiite communities. Two truck bombs targeting a tiny sect in a village in northern Iraq and a spate of bloody bombings in Baghdad have [...]
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August 3, 2009
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki paid a visit on Sunday to the northern Kurdish region to hold talks with Kurdish leaders over disputes of oil and land. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L), Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani (C) and Kurdish President Masoud Barzani meet in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region near Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) [...]
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