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Iraq Protesters Leave Baghdad Green Zone on Cleric's Order - New York Times Sun, 01 May 2016 20:45:42 GMT

New York Times
Iraq Protesters Leave Baghdad Green Zone on Cleric's Order
New York Times
In a statement issued from the holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq, Mr. Sadr directed his followers to leave the Green Zone in an orderly fashion, to chant for Iraq and not a sect, and to help clean the space they had occupied. A day earlier, hundreds ...
Protesters pull out of Baghdad's Green Zone but vow to be backCNN
How the 'Green Zone' Helped Destroy IraqPOLITICO Magazine
Protesters in Iraq, bombings raise questions about country's stabilityUSA TODAY
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Iraq Oil Exports Near Record Even as Protests Threaten Paralysis - Bloomberg Sun, 01 May 2016 20:00:14 GMT

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Iraq Oil Exports Near Record Even as Protests Threaten Paralysis
Bloomberg
Oil shipments and production weren't affected Sunday after protesters stormed the parliament in Baghdad, Falah Al-Amri, chairman of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization, said by Facebook message. The demonstrators have accused the government of ...
Iraq Says Oil Exports, Revenues Increase in AprilNew York Times
UPDATE 1-Iraq's southern oil exports rise in April to 3.364 mln bpdReuters

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Iraq's Doctors Face Threats of Violence - Wall Street Journal Sun, 01 May 2016 23:39:40 GMT

Wall Street Journal
Iraq's Doctors Face Threats of Violence
Wall Street Journal
BAGHDAD—A breakdown in public order in the wake of Iraq's fight against Islamic State is exposing the country's doctors to revenge attacks from grieving families, powerful tribes and militia leaders. Doctors in some of the busiest emergency wards say ...

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11 killed in Iraq; ISIS claims responsibility - WCVB Boston Sun, 01 May 2016 21:06:00 GMT

WCVB Boston
11 killed in Iraq; ISIS claims responsibility
WCVB Boston
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had inflamed the crowd, giving a fiery speech Saturday railing against Iraq's leaders, calling them corrupt. Sadr vehemently opposed the United States occupation of Iraq and in the mid-2000s urged his Mehdi Army militia to ...
11 Killed in twin suicide bombings in Iraq; ISIS claims responsibilityKITV Honolulu
32 dead: Double car bomb attack in Iraq, ISIS claims responsibilityRT
ISIS claims twin suicide attack that killed at least 33 in IraqAfricaNews
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Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq - Department of Defense Sun, 01 May 2016 14:58:11 GMT

Military Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq
Department of Defense
SOUTHWEST ASIA, May 1, 2016 — U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today. Officials reported ...

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Protesters Storm Iraq Parliament - NPR Sun, 01 May 2016 21:17:30 GMT

Protesters Storm Iraq Parliament
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Shia protesters stormed into the heavily fortified Green Zone Saturday, many of them demanding an end to corruption. The BBC's Ahmed Maher has an update from Baghdad. Facebook; Twitter. Google+. Email ...

Protests expose Iraq's flawed system of governance - Irish Times Sun, 01 May 2016 18:57:54 GMT

Irish Times
Protests expose Iraq's flawed system of governance
Irish Times
Furthermore, they demand electricity, water and an end to corruption and the ethno-sectarian regime imposed on Iraq in May 2003 when US viceroy L Paul Bremer formed a powerless “governing council” on the basis of ethnic and sectarian affiliations of ...

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Why Iraq wasn't what I thought - Catholic News Agency Sun, 01 May 2016 22:02:00 GMT

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Why Iraq wasn't what I thought
Catholic News Agency
Erbil, Iraq, May 1, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA).- Loai Behnam Toubia pulls up his shirt, uncovering a thick, dark scar – probably 10 inches long – that tears vertically down his large, round belly. With a cockeyed arm he points to three smaller scars that ...

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With Iraq Mired in Turmoil, Some Call for Partitioning the Country - New York Times Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:41:38 GMT

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With Iraq Mired in Turmoil, Some Call for Partitioning the Country
New York Times
With the surprise visit to Baghdad on Thursday of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — who, as a senator, called in a 2006 essay for the partition of Iraq into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish zones — it seems fair to ask a question that has bedeviled ...
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No, Maureen Dowd, Trump Didn't Actually Oppose the Iraq War From the Start - Slate Magazine (blog) Sun, 01 May 2016 19:08:47 GMT

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No, Maureen Dowd, Trump Didn't Actually Oppose the Iraq War From the Start
Slate Magazine (blog)
Here we go again. Donald Trump likes to say that he has good foreign-policy instincts because he was opposed to the Iraq War from the beginning and pushed back against the invasion. Problem is, that claim has been thoroughly debunked over and over ...
The NY Times' Maureen Dowd fell for Trump's claim he opposed the Iraq War from the startVox

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