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Iraq parties jump the gun on election campaign
BAGHDAD – Despite the disarray caused by the sudden mass resignation of election chiefs ahead of next month’s polls, candidates for seats in the Iraqi parliament are pressing ahead with unofficial campaigning. Keeping the printing houses whirring, they have been putting ...
Pressure on Iraq election law after poll chiefs quit
BAGHDAD – Election officials pushed on Wednesday for reform of Iraq’s election law after polling chiefs suddenly handed in their resignations complaining of parliamentary and judicial interference, throwing next month’s vote into disarray. Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki warned that failure to ...
Once an Arab model, Baghdad becomes worst city in the world
    Iraqi men carry a diesel generator, which are often bought by individuals to supply electricity to their homes due to frequent power cuts, at their shop in Baghdad. As recently as the 1970s, the Iraqi capital was lauded as a ...
Draconian Iraq bill sparks fury
  An Iraqi man walks past a banner reading in Arabic, "the Jaafari law (Jaafari Personal Status Law) we will not abandon it because it is our identity", in Baghdad on Tuesday. The Jaafari Personal Status Law, which sets out rules ...
US delivers missiles, ammunition to Iraq
BAGHDAD – The United States delivered nearly 100 Hellfire missiles, M4 rifles and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition to Iraq this month, the US embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday. The delivery is part of US efforts to help ...
Suicide bomber uses Iraq police Humvee in attack
BAGHDAD — Authorities in Iraq say a suicide bomber has used a stolen police Humvee to pass through a military checkpoint and set off his explosives, wounding 14 people. The attack happened Saturday in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, ...
Nine blasts rattle Baghdad; 17 killed
  Security forces inspect the site of car bomb attack in Baghdad on Wednesday. At least two civilians were killed when a car bomb went off near the capitals high-tech boulevard, in one of at least nine car bombs that hit ...
Militants storm local council HQ in Iraq, kill 6
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say militants have stormed a government building in a city north of Baghdad, killing at least six people. Police officers say two suicide bombers first blew themselves up on Tuesday at the entrance to the local council ...
Six members of security forces killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD – Attacks in predominantly Sunni Arab areas north and west of Baghdad on Sunday killed six people, all members of the security forces, the latest in a year-long surge in bloodshed. Less than two months before parliamentary elections, Iraq is ...
Iraq death toll falls in February, but still remains high
    BAGHDAD – The death toll from violence in Iraq fell in February from the previous month, but was still one of the worst in years, figures released on Saturday showed. Iraq is suffering a year-long surge in violence to levels not ...
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