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Child among 4 killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say insurgent attacks in separate parts of the country have killed four people including a 7-year-old boy and wounded five others. Police officials say that the first attack took place early Sunday when gunmen attacked an army ...
Iraq Sunni leader urges reforms to end protests
  BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Shi’ite Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki should reform laws seen as unjustly marginalizing the country’s Sunni Muslims or mass protests could spiral out of control, a top Sunni leader said. Thousands have taken to the streets in Sunni stronghold ...
Sunni discontent with Al-Maliki govt grows
Iraqis take part in an anti-government demonstration at the Umm Al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, Friday. Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in Baghdad and other cities after prayers on Friday, in another show of discontent with Shiite ...
Iraq threatens to seize oil exports, sue dealers
BAGHDAD — Iraq has threatened to seize oil exports made without its consent and sue companies dealing in what it sees as contraband crude just days after the country’s self-rule Kurdish region began unilaterally exporting oil. The spokesman for Iraq’s Kurdish ...
Dozen ‘Qaeda inmates’ in Iraqi jailbreak
BAGHDAD — A dozen prisoners including Al-Qaeda-linked death row inmates escaped from a prison near Baghdad Friday, the latest sign that Iraq still struggles with basic law and order more than a year after American troops withdrew, officials said. The brazen ...
Iraq okays Kuwait energy deal
    BAGHDAD — Iraq has approved an oil exploration deal with a Kuwait-led group, a statement said Thursday, replacing a previous agreement with a Turkish firm that was torpedoed amid worsening ties with Ankara. The cabinet agreed to replace Turkey’s TPAO with ...
Maliki opponents seek to question him in parliament in new ouster bid
    BAGHDAD — Opponents of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said on Wednesday they would call him to parliament for questioning in a second attempt to force a vote of no confidence as the Shi’ite leader faces Sunni Muslim protests. The parliamentary ...
Iraq shuts Jordan border crossing over Sunni protests
    BAGHDAD — Iraq closed a border crossing with Jordan on Wednesday after Sunni Muslim demonstrators blocked a highway to Syria and Jordan as part of mass protests against Shi’ite Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Baghdad ordered troops to shut the Traibil border ...
Iraqi Sunnis and Kurds boycott Cabinet session
    BAGHDAD – Iraqi Sunni Muslim and Kurdish ministers boycotted a Cabinet session Tuesday to show support for protests that threaten Shi’ite Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s fragile cross-sectarian government, lawmakers and a government source said. Thousands of protesters have demonstrated and blocked ...
Elections seen as only answer in crisis-hit Iraq
    BAGHDAD – Massive rallies, a powerful cleric predicting an “Iraq spring” and Arabs and Kurds at loggerheads: Iraq is mired in a cycle of interlocking crises with elections increasingly seen as the only solution. Almost since the moment the last US ...
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