51 Killed, 78 Wounded in Iraq Bombings, Clashes
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret GriffisAt least 51 people were killed and 78 more were wounded in attacks and clashes across Iraq.
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At least 51 people were killed and 78 more were wounded in attacks and clashes across Iraq.
On Anniversary, War Is Largely Forgotten
About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.
Iran has signed a deal to sell Iraq arms and ammunition worth $195 million, according to documents seen by Reuters - a move that would break a U.N. embargo on weapons sales by Tehran.
At least 96 people were killed across Iraq today, while another 95 were wounded. The military broke its self-imposed truce in Falluja.
A former soldier convicted in 2009 of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.
An 84-year-old nun was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight
State Dept: Al-Qaeda in Iraq Is an Army
As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hurried to his helicopter ready to take off at the end of a visit to Iraq last year, it was becoming clearer that the Americans have lost control of a country they wished to mold to their liking.
Iraq’s military continues to escalate attacks against the Anbar Province, killing scores in shellings of al-Qaeda-held areas around Ramadi and Fallujah.
Military: Time for Talking Ran Out
Iraqi security forces are preparing to storm Falluja and break a month-long standoff with militants who are in control of the city, senior security officials and troops told Reuters on Saturday.
The toll numbers were high today as scores of militants were killed in Anbar province.
Iraq is poised to flood the oil market by tripling its capacity to pump crude by 2020 and is collaborating with Iran on strategy in a move that will challenge Saudi Arabia's grip on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
'No Deadline,' But Growing Fears of Military Invasion
At least 45 people were killed across Iraq, and another 82 were wounded.
Two pictures show a Marine pouring gasoline on the enemy remains, another two images show the Iraqi soldiers going up in flames while a fifth picture captures the charred bodies.
Seeks Assault Rifles and Artillery
Praises Tribal Leaders for Efforts to Oust al-Qaeda
As their massive sacrifices in the future of Iraq go up in flames (more than 4,000 American lives lost and greater than $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars wasted), Americans watch pundits on TV argue that their government did too little and abandoned Ir
Iraq
Sen. John McCain and his sidekick, Sen. Lindsey Graham, issued a joint statement which blamed the whole development of “al-Qaeda in Iraq” in Fallujah on President Obama’s decision to withdraw US forces form Iraq in 2011.
As their massive sacrifices in the future of Iraq go up in flames (more than 4,000 American lives lost and greater than $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars wasted), Americans watch pundits on TV argue that their government did too little and abandoned Ir
The law that green-lighted the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq is still on the books ― but maybe not for much longer if President Barack Obama has his way, the White House said on Tuesday, two years after he declared the war officially over.
Violence in Iraq has reached new heights. And the semi-autonomous Kurdish north could be set to capitalize on all the instability.
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Maliki: Military Will End 'Disunity' in Anbar
Remember Fallujah? Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military fired on unarmed protestors, killing as many as 20 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, local Iraqis attacked a convoy of US military contractors, killing four. The US then l
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