Newsweek | Iraq Hit by Wave of Bombings and Attacks New York Times BAGHDAD — Thirty-seven people were killed on Friday in a wave of bombings and attacks across Iraq, and eight soldiers were kidnapped, security officials said. At dawn, a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into a police station in ... Sunnis targeted across Iraq More deadly violence, more targeting of suspected militants in Iraq Newsweek Rewind: The War in Iraq, 11 Years Later |
Aljazeera.com | Scores killed in wave of Iraq bombings Aljazeera.com According to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq [UNAMI], a total of 703 Iraqis were killed and another 1,381 were injured in February. These figures do not include those killed and injured in Anbar province, where 189 were killed and 550 ... |
The Guardian | Iraq invasion was about oil The Guardian Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the 2003 Iraq War - yet to this day, few media reflections on the conflict accurately explore the extent to which opening up Persian Gulf energy resources to the world economy was a prime driver behind the ... Eleven Years After US Invaded Iraq |
NBC Bay Area | Iraq vet hurt by Oakland cops in protest gets $4.5M USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — Oakland will pay Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen $4.5 million for permanent brain injuries he suffered when police broke up an Occupy Wall Street protest in October 2011. The settlement of his 2012 federal lawsuit against the city was ... Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen Reaches $4.5M Settlement in Occupy Oakland ... $4.5M Settlement Reached For Iraq War Vet Injured In Occupy Oakland Protest Iraq war vet hurt in California Occupy protest to get $4.5 million |
Press TV | Gunmen ram explosives-laden tanker into Iraq police HQ, killing 15 Reuters ISIL, which is also active in neighboring Syria, has regained momentum in Iraq over the past year and is one of a number of insurgent and tribal groups that stormed the cities of Ramadi and Falluja in the western province of Anbar in January. In Ramadi ... Gunmen ram explosives-laden tanker into Iraq police HQ Militants capture village in northern Iraq At least 14 Iraq SWAT forces killed in explosives-rigged house |
The Guardian | Iraq child-marriage bill sparks outrage among human rights groups The Guardian A draft law before Iraq's parliament that would legalise the marriage of girls as young as nine and restrict women's rights in matters of parenting, divorce and inheritance is a political move to define the identity of the country's majority Shias ... |
Redeployment gets Iraq right USA TODAY Phil Klay's collection of short stories about the war in Iraq, Redeployment, packs as much punch as the groaning shelf of non-fiction books written about the America's costly adventure there. His ear for potty-mouthed dialog spiked with casual ... |
Images testify to atrocities in Iraq The Japan Times It captures what appear to be Iraqi soldiers desecrating the corpse of a fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), a group reconstituted from an earlier incarnation of al-Qaida in Iraq. “This is very normal,” said the Baghdad-based ... |
Press TV | Fresh wave of terrorist attacks kills 28 across Iraq Press TV At least 28 people, mostly members of security forces, have been killed and dozens more wounded in a series of terrorist attacks that hit Iraq's north and west. Al-Qaeda militants rammed an explosive-laden truck into a police headquarters in the ... |
Today's Zaman | Wave of attacks across Iraq kills at least 28 people Today's Zaman This photo from social media website shows a suspected member of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant group holding a pistol as he prepares to execute a row of what is believed to be Iraqi soldiers. At least 25 people died across ... Al-Sweady Inquiry: Iraq unlawful killing claims dropped Iraq unlawful killing claims dropped in Britain UK enquiry into 'killer' Iraq soldiers finds no solid evidence |