Iraq Violence

Gunmen Open Fire On Bus

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.23.2012

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BAGHDAD — A pair of attacks killed five people in Iraq on Wednesday, including three Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, officials said. A bus carrying L...

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Gunmen Kill 3 Police Officers

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.21.2012

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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed three policemen in an attack on a security checkpoint north of Baghdad. Police officials say the at...

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Bombs Hit Busy Bird Market

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.18.2012

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BAGHDAD — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding do...

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Explosions Rip Through Cafe In Iraq, Killing 9

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 04.27.2012

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BAGHDAD -- Twin explosions ripped through a crowded cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 21, Iraqi officials said Friday. The ...

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March Death Toll For Iraqis Was Lowest Since 2003

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 04.02.2012

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BAGHDAD -- Official figures showed that 112 people were killed by violence in Iraq in March, the lowest monthly death toll for Iraqis since the U.S.-l...

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Explosions Across Iraq Claim Dozens Of Lives

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

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By Kareem Raheem and Aseel Kami BAGHDAD, March 20 (Reuters) - At least 26 explosions struck cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, k...

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Double Bombing Kills At Least 12

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 05.07.2012

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BAGHDAD — Two bombs that exploded in swift succession killed 14 people Wednesday near a crowded restaurant in a mid-sized city in Iraq's north, ...

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Gunmen Kill 25 Police Officers In Western Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.04.2012

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BAGHDAD — Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to governmen...

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Wave Of Attacks Kills At Least 50, Injures More Than 200 In Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 04.23.2012

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BAGHDAD — Bombs and deadly shootings relentlessly pounded Iraqis on Thursday, killing at least 55 people and wounding more than 225 in a widespr...

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Suicide Car Bomber Kills 33 In Baghdad

AP | By BARBARA SURK | Posted 03.28.2012

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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent effor...

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Militants Bomb Home Of Iraqi Policeman, Killing 10

Reuters | Posted 03.26.2012

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HILLA, Iraq, Jan 26 (Reuters) - An Iraqi policeman and nine relatives were killed as they slept when militants bombed their home south of Baghdad on...

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String Of Bombings Brings Death Toll In Iraq To 150 In 2012

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.17.2012

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BAGHDAD — Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting ...

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Bomb Kills At Least 53 Shiite Pilgrims In South Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK and NABIL AL-JURANI | Posted 03.15.2012

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ZUBAIR, Iraq — A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at ...

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Gunmen Kill 3 Police Officers, Local Mayor

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 03.12.2012

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BAGHDAD — Gunmen in Iraq killed three police officers and a local mayor Wednesday, targeting symbols of government control in former insurgent s...

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Latest Wave Of Bomb Attacks Hits Iraq

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 03.11.2012

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BAGHDAD — Three schoolboys were among at least 10 people killed in Iraq on Tuesday, extending a wave of bloody attacks that have rocked the coun...

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Third Day Of Attacks Against Shiites In Iraq

AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.08.2012

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BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed two people and wounded eight others south of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said. T...

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Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis

David Tereshchuk | Posted 02.06.2012

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With the longest war in American history, and the third longest, now both in sight of ending, US media are scattered ... you might say confused and conflicted ... in assessing what happens next.

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Iraqi PM: Bomb Was Targeting Me

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 02.02.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad's Green Zone was an assassination attempt against ...

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Another Day Of Violence Kills 10 In Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 01.03.2012

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BAGHDAD — U.S. plans to station troops across the Mideast after withdrawing from Iraq amount to occupying other Islamic countries, Iraq's most o...

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Triple Bombings Hit Basra

AP | NABIL AL-JURANI | Posted 01.02.2012

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BASRA, Iraq — Three bombs hidden in motorcycles exploded in a southern Iraqi oil city Wednesday evening, killing seven people who were sitting a...

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Twin Blasts At Music Store Kill At Least 32, Wound 71

AP | By BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 12.28.2011

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BAGHDAD -- The death toll from a twin bombing in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad rose on Friday to 32 – the worst violence to hit Iraq since Pr...

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Day After Major Suicide Bombing, Twin Bombings Kill Another 17 In Sadr City

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.13.2011

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BAGHDAD — Two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others Thursday night, Iraqi officia...

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Baghdad Blasts Kill At Least Ten

AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.10.2011

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BAGHDAD -- A string of explosions targeting security officials – and people who rushed to the scene to help the injured – killed at least ...

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Pre-Down Blast Kills Five In Baghdad

AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 11.23.2011

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BAGHDAD, -- Iraqi officials say five people have been killed in a series of blasts in western Baghdad. Police officials say five bombs were planted e...

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Iraq Finds Bodies Of 22 Executed Shiite Pilgrims

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.12.2011

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BAGHDAD — Gunmen forced their way onto a bus of traveling Shiite pilgrims Monday and shot all 22 men onboard as they traveled through western Ir...

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