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Abadi named premier; defiant Maliki musters troops
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s president on Monday formally nominated a candidate to replace Prime Minister Nouri Kamal Al-Maliki. The step broke a months-long political deadlock, but it also seemed to take Iraq into uncharted territory, as Maliki gave no signal that ...
Iraqi militants seize several Christian villages
BAGHDAD — Clergymen in northwestern Iraq say militants with the Islamic State group have overrun a cluster of Christian villages alongside the country's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, sending civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area. Bishop Joseph Tomas says the village of ...
Tunneling through triangle of death, IS aims at Baghdad from south
BAGHDAD — Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to Baghdad with the support of heavily-armed Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi security and intelligence officials said. The Al-Qaeda offshoot, ...
Besieged Turkmen town cries for help
A Iraqi Turkmen Shiite fighter, who volunteered to join the government forces, holds a position in Amerli, some 160 km north of Baghdad, as the city has been completely surrounded by Islamic State (IS) militants for more than six weeks. ...
Kurds and IS fighters in heavy clashes near Arbil
BAGHDAD — Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State fighters on Wednesday just 40 km southwest of the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters. The attack came after Islamic State militants inflicted a humiliating defeat ...
40 Yazidi children reported killed after Iraq attack: UN
    BAGHDAD — Forty children from northern Iraq's Yazidi minority are reported to have died as a result of a militant attack on the Sinjar region, the United Nations Children's Fund said Tuesday. "According to official reports received by UNICEF, these children ...
IS captures Iraqi oil field, defeating Kurds
    BAGHDAD — Islamic State Sunni insurgents have captured the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and a nearby oil field in their first major defeat of Kurdish fighters, witnesses said on Sunday. The Al-Qaeda offshoot, which swept through northern Iraq in June ...
Islamic State captures Iraqi town, oil field - witnesses
BAGHDAD —  Islamic State Sunni insurgents have captured the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and a nearby oil field after a battle with Kurdish forces who had control of the area, witnesses said on Sunday. Islamic State, which staged a lightning ...
Baghdad official taken by gunmen
BAGHDAD — Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad on Saturday, police officers said. It was not immediately clear if Riyadh Al-Adhdah, the ...
Iraq prison convoy ambush kills 60
BAGHDAD — An onslaught on a convoy transferring inmates north of Baghdad left dozens dead Thursday, as visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Iraq’s survival hinged on a more inclusive government. Most of the 60 killed in the spectacular predawn ...
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