Al-Arabiya | Seventeen dead in bombings and shootings in Iraq Reuters Members of the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are holed up inside Fallujah along with Sunni fighters angry at Maliki over what they say are policies which discriminate against Iraq's Sunni minority. The Iraqi government declared a ... As Iraq Hands out Election IDs, Unrest Rages On Militants Launch Several Attacks in Iraq Violence in Iraq kills at least 14 people |
Telegraph.co.uk | Comrades say Marine heroism tale of Iraq veteran was untrue Washington Post After his death in 2004 in Fallujah, Sgt. Rafael Peralta became perhaps the most lionized Marine of the Iraq war. Shot in the head during an intense firefight, the story went, the infantryman scooped a grenade underneath his body seconds before it ... US rejects medal of honour for fallen Iraq 'hero' Rafael Peralta Medal of Honor Denied for a Marine who Died Fighting in Iraq |
Militants shoot down Iraqi helicopter and occupy northern town Reuters All four crew members were killed when their helicopter was downed during a reconnaissance flight over the town of Karma in Iraq's western province of Anbar, where the army is engaged in a standoff with anti-government fighters. Sunni Islamist ... |
AFP | Iraq: Mortar Fire Kills at Least 21 People New York Times Seven mortar shells fell on the Shiite town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, on Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding 65, Iraqi officials said. Security officials said the shells had been fired from a Sunni area near Musayyib where security forces ... Twenty Killed In Iraq Mortar Attack 27 killed, 40 wounded in violent attacks across Iraq Iraq mortar attack kills 17 |
Iraq Puppet Government Offers Financial Bounty to Extrajudicial Killers ... Center for Research on Globalization When the U.S. insanely offered bounties for “bad guys” in Afghanistan and Iraq, those who were turned in were largely a result of old enmities and score settling, resulting in transfer to Guantanamo, long jail sentences locally, or rendition to some US ... Iraq: Prime Minister Offers Financial Bounty to Extrajudicial Killers |
Yahoo News | Chinese FM visits Iraq on regional issues CCTV Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has wrapped up his trip to Iraq and left the country. It marks the highest-level Chinese official visit in more than ten years. This was also the foreign minister's first visit to Iraq, and both political and economic ... China's foreign minister makes rare visit to Iraq China's foreign minister on rare visit to Iraq |
Press TV | Iraq government blocks Kurdish wages over oil row Press TV Iraq's Kurdistan has accused the central government in Baghdad of blocking wages for Kurdish employees over the region's oil exports via Turkey, Press TV reports. Baghdad is withholding wages for hundreds of thousands of Kurdish employees in an attempt ... Time for a deal, and for Turkey to stop meddling: Iraq and Kurdistan headed ... Kurds say have not agreed to export oil via Iraq's SOMO Iraq News in brief |
Press TV | Defeat Al Saud to uproot terrorism: Iraq MP Press TV Al-Sayhood, who is a member of the Iraqi State of Law Coalition, noted that Takfiri groups are not active merely in Iraq as they are spreading terror in Syria under the name of al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). On ... |
Al Jazeera America | Iraq halts military operations for 72 hours in Fallujah Al Jazeera America Iraq's defense ministry announced on Saturday a 72-hour halt to military operations in the besieged city of Fallujah, a key city in Anbar province, where Al-Qaeda fighters seized control in January. The announcement raises the possibility of a ... |
CNN | Iraq: at least 49 killed in several Baghdad bomb blasts euronews No group immediately claimed responsibility but Shi'ites are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents who have been gaining ground in Iraq over the past year and overran several towns in recent weeks. In separate incidents in the northern city of ... Bomb attacks kill at least 24 in Iraq capital Blasts kill at least 16 in Iraq; 90 wounded Iraq car bombs leave dozens dead as sectarian violence worsens |