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Bombers storm Iraq ministry; 18 killed
    BAGHDAD — Six suicide bombers burst into an Iraqi ministry building, took hostages and killed at least 18 people including themselves on Thursday before security forces regained control, a senior official said. The brazen attack on the building belonging to ...
Iraq forces kill attackers, free hostages: officials
    BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces ended a hostage crisis in Baghdad on Thursday after they killed four remaining attackers who stormed a building occupied by a state-owned company, officials said. The remaining hostages were freed, interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan ...
Militants storm Iraq govt office, take hostages: officials
    BAGHDAD — Militants stormed an office of Iraq's human rights ministry in northeast Baghdad on Thursday and took a number of civil servants hostage, security officials said. The attack was mounted by eight armed men, police and an interior ministry official ...
Iraqi security personnel killed as unrest surges
BAGHDAD – Gun attacks north of Baghdad killed seven members of Iraq’s security forces on Tuesday, the latest in a surge in violence fueling fears the country is slipping back into all-out conflict. Coupled with a deadly standoff between security forces ...
Iraq executes 11 more ‘terror’ convicts
    BAGHDAD — Iraq executed 11 men convicted of charges related to “terrorism” on Thursday, the Justice Ministry said, just days after another mass execution of 26 convicts. “The ministry executed 11 people today, after they were convicted of terrorism charges,” ...
Al-Maliki urges ‘stand’ against Qaeda gunmen
  BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called on Wednesday for residents of the conflict-hit province of Anbar to "take a stand" against Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, as the UN warned of worsening displacement. Government forces continued to press assaults against militants who ...
Iraqi Shi’ite militia chief threatens to kill politicians
BAGHDAD – A Shi’ite militia leader arrested in Iraq as said leaders of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s political bloc will be killed unless he is released within 24 hours. Wathiq Al-Battat, speaking to Reuters on a mobile phone he said had ...
Iraq presses offensive; UN warns of more displaced
BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces pressed an assault on Al-Qaeda-linked fighters holding parts of a city west of Baghdad Tuesday as the UN warned of an “exponential rise” in displaced or stranded families. Violence elsewhere in the country, meanwhile, left five people ...
Looted Iraqi museum hopes to reopen, minus many relics
Visitors look at artifacts displayed inside the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. Baghdad is set to fully reopen its treasured National Museum, home to priceless artifacts plundered in the unchecked chaos following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. – Reuters BAGHDAD ...
Iraqi army launches operation in Ramadi
BAGHDAD – The Iraqi army launched a major operation on Sunday on the crisis-hit city of Ramadi, swathes of which have for weeks been controlled by anti-government fighters, officials said. Troops were backed by helicopter cover and imposed a ban on ...
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