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Shelling kills 11 Falluja
BAGHDAD – Shelling in the Iraqi city of Falluja, held by anti-government fighters for more than four months, has killed 11 people in less than 24 hours, a doctor said on Sunday. It was not immediately clear who was behind the ...
Iraqis brave violence threat to vote; low turnout in Sunni areas
BAGHDAD — Iraqis voted on Wednesday in their first national election since US forces withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki seeking a third term amid rising violence. Iraq's western province of Anbar is torn by fighting as Sunni militants ...
Iraq attacks kill at least 21 as police, army vote
BAGHDAD — Militants in Iraq unleashed attacks against polling stations as soldiers and security forces cast ballots two days ahead of parliamentary selections, killing at least 21 people on Monday, officials said. The wave of attacks was an apparent attempt to ...
Baghdad polling centre suicide blast kills 4: officials
    BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber killed at least four policemen and wounded 11 people at a polling centre in Baghdad on Monday, police and a medical official said. An attacker wearing a suicide belt targeted the polling station in the west ...
Iraqi copters hit militants’ convoy in Syria
BAGHDAD – Iraqi army helicopters attacked a convoy of "militants" inside eastern Syria on Sunday as it tried to approach the border, killing at least eight people, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. “The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab ...
Iraqis to vote for new parliament with dim hopes
BAGHDAD — The vibrant posters promise jobs, prosperity and security coming from Iraq’s first parliamentary elections since US troops withdrew from the country, but so far, voters have only dim hopes as sectarian bloodshed rages unstopped. Eleven years after the US-led ...
A look at major players in polls
BAGHDAD — Iraq is set to hold its first national parliamentary elections Wednesday after the withdrawal of the US forces in 2011. More than 22 million voters will be eligible to cast their ballots to choose 328 lawmakers out of ...
Suicide attack in Iraq kills 11
    BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the run-up to next week’s ...
Female candidates fight for rights in Iraq campaign
BAGHDAD – With fears that women’s rights are being eroded in Iraq, prospective female lawmakers are determined to push women’s issues to the fore of campaigning for this month’s elections. Despite a constitutional requirement that a quarter of all MPs be ...
Bomber hits university; many killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD – Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in north Baghdad, killed at least 12 people on Sunday, security and medical officials said. The attacks, which come as Iraq suffers a prolonged surge in bloodshed, took place ...
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