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Iraq issues arrest warrant for central bank chief
    BAGHDAD – An Iraqi official says authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the longtime governor of the Central Bank of Iraq following allegations of financial wrongdoing. Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar said Thursday that 15 other bank officials are ...
Baghdad blocks Turkish pilgrim buses from entering KSA
    BAGHDAD – Iraq Thursday refused to allow more than 120 Turkish buses to cross into Saudi Arabia, apparently loaded with Makkah pilgrims, because the passengers did not have visas issued by Baghdad, officials said. “The government has decided to turn back ...
Iraq ex-electoral chief says cleared of graft
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s former electoral chief Faraj Al-Haidari said an appeals court Tuesday reversed a corruption conviction and one-year prison sentence against him and two other senior officials. “We were informed by the judiciary that the federal appeals court has canceled ...
Iraq attacks kill at least eight
BAGHDAD — A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad Monday killed at least eight people, while a prisoner on death row escaped from a police station south of the capital. The attacks, which killed ...
Iraqi judge, soldiers among six killed in attacks
    BAGHDAD – A series of attacks across Iraq Tuesday killed six people, including three soldiers and a judge, police and health officials said. A roadside bomb struck an army patrol in Baghdad’s western suburb of Abu Ghraib in the early morning, ...
Syria looms over Maliki’s Moscow visit
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki set off for Moscow Monday to boost defense and trade ties, but events in Syria loom large over talks between two states criticised over their support for Damascus. Maliki’s visit, his first to Russia ...
Iraq PM wants provincial polls in April
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has asked the electoral commission to push ahead with planning for provincial elections in April, his media adviser said Friday, despite legal challenges that could end in the dissolution of the commission. The provincial ...
Iraq executes six people despite moratorium calls
BAGHDAD – Iraq executed six people Thursday despite calls for a moratorium, a justice ministry official said, bringing the number of people put to death this year to at least 102. One of the six was among 23 inmates who were ...
Baghdad moves to end Turkish military presence in north
    BAGHDAD – Iraq’s cabinet Tuesday called for the abrogation of treaties permitting foreign forces in Iraq, a move a high-ranking official said is aimed at ending Turkey’s military presence in the north. Turkey has maintained several military bases in the autonomous ...
Iraqi politicians silent on deadly violence
    BAGHDAD – Most high-ranking officials are publicly silent on the deadly attacks that claim hundreds of Iraqi lives each month, rarely issuing any statements condemning or even acknowledging the violence. While Iraqis were contending with a wave of bombings and shootings ...
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