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Last group of Iranian exiles relocated to new site in Iraq
  BAGHDAD — The last major group of Iranian exiles has relocated from their long-time base to a new site near Baghdad as part of a process that aims to see them resettled outside Iraq, the United Nations said Sunday. “The Special ...
Amnesty calls for probe into Iraq attacks
    BAGHDAD – Amnesty International Tuesday called on Iraq to investigate a bloody wave of attacks, while condemning a death sentence handed to fugitive Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi. More than 80 people were killed and at least 400 wounded in the series ...
Sectarian fury, Syrian turmoil pressure Maliki
    BAGHDAD — A fugitive vice president condemned to death and rallying opposition to Iraq’s “sectarian” prime minister, fresh bloodshed in the streets and the entire Middle East — Nuri Al-Maliki has no easy task in holding his government, and his ...
A day of blood and gore in Iraq
  BAGHDAD — At least 58 people were killed in attacks across Iraq Sunday, including a car bomb outside a French consulate. Iraq’s conflict has eased since its height in 2006-2007 when sectarian slaughter killed thousands. The most serious of the bombings, ...
Iraq court stokes sectarian fire, sentences vice president to death
  BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court Sunday after he was convicted of murder in a ruling likely to further exacerbate sectarian tension. Hashemi, a Sunni, fled the country earlier this year after ...
US urges Iraq to inspect Iran supply flights to Syria
    BAGHDAD – US officials are questioning Iraq about Iranian flights in Iraqi airspace suspected of ferrying weapons to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, whose conflict with rebels threatens to drag his neighbours into a regional struggle. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s government ...
A year after murder, Iraq press freedom threatened
BAGHDAD — One year after a prominent Iraqi journalist and government critic was killed, no one has been arrested for his murder and activists and analysts say press freedoms have, if anything, worsened. Hadi Al-Mehdi died of a single gunshot wound ...
Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown
  A new culture rift is emerging in Iraq as young women doff their shapeless cover ups and men strut around in revealing slacks and edgy haircuts. This has prompted clerics to mobilize the fashion police in the name of protecting ...
Iraq claims drop in deadly attacks
    BAGHDAD – The Iraqi government claimed Saturday that the number of people killed in attacks nearly halved in August compared to the previous month, but AFP figures indicated violence remained largely unchanged. According to figures compiled by the ministries of health, ...
Iraq to execute 2 more Saudis
Muhammad Al-Ahmadi Okaz/Saudi Gazette BAGHDAD – Saudi citizen Mazin Masawee was executed by hanging in Iraq on Monday, Haydar Al-Sadi, spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, has confirmed, ending speculation about his fate. Al-Sadi told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that Masawee together with 25 ...
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