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Fighting rages nears Baghdad; crisis life-threatening, says UN
  Iraqi men fill military trucks to join the Iraqi army at the main recruiting center in Baghdad, Tuesday, after authorities urged them to help battle insurgents. Hundreds of young Iraqi men gripped by religious and nationalistic fervor streamed into volunteer ...
Iraq presses counter-offensive as US deploys warship
BAGHDAD – Iraq on Sunday pressed a counter-offensive against militants who have seized a swathe of the country, as former UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi blamed the sweeping unrest on world neglect of the Syrian conflict. As the United States responded to ...
Iraq forces ready offensive; PM claims ‘unlimited powers’
BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces readied a counter-offensive against militants north of Baghdad on Saturday, an army colonel said, after the prime minister announced the cabinet granted him “unlimited powers.” The colonel from the military command responsible for Samarra, a city ...
Fight rebels, Sistani tells followers
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric urged followers to take up arms against a full-blown Sunni militant insurgency to topple Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, escalating a conflict that threatens civil war and a possible break-up of the country. In ...
Militants set eyes on Baghdad
    BAGHDAD — Militants were pushing toward Baghdad Thursday after capturing a town just hours to the north, as the US mulled air strikes in a bid to bolster Iraq’s collapsing security forces. With the militants closing in on the capital, ...
Major Iraq attacks showcase strength of militants
BAGHDAD — Three days of major militant attacks around Iraq, including on a university, have left dozens dead in a stark display of militant strength and the country's enormous security challenges. Militants assaulted the city of Samarra, battled security forces in ...
Double bomb at party office kills 19 in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A double bombing at a Kurdish party office killed 19 people in a town northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi officials said. Police officials said the attack took place in the morning when a suicide bomber set off his ...
Gunmen briefly hold hostages in Anbar
BAGHDAD — Militants stormed a university in Iraq’s restive Anbar province Saturday, briefly taking dozens of students hostage before withdrawing from the school amid gunfire, officials and witnesses said. The attack on Anbar University comes as extremists and other anti-government militias ...
Bomber kills 8 in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber targeted a group of pro-government, anti-militant Sunni militiamen west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 14, officials said Wednesday. The bomber struck on Tuesday night as the militiamen were patrolling a ...
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: UN
BAGHDAD – Nearly 800 people were killed in violence across Iraq in May, the United Nations said on Sunday, making it the deadliest month so far this year. Of the total 799 people killed, 196 were members of the Iraqi security ...
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