Iraq Violence

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Baghdad Market: Motorcycle Bomb Kills Dozens Just Days Before US Troop Withdrawal

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Motorcycle bombs killed at least 20 people in separate attacks in Baghdad Friday, at least 19 of them in a crowded bazaar, part of an ...

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Iraq Civilian Casualties: Blind Iraqi Girl Gets New Eyes In London

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A 3-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home to Baghdad with a new set of pr...

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Truck bomb kills more than 70 in northern Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A truck bomb exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing more than 70 people and wounding nearl...

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Izzat Abdullah: Iraq's National Karate Coach Gunned Down In Mosul

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Gunmen killed the coach of Iraq's national karate team Friday in Mosul, underscoring the dangers still facing this northern city less ...

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Bathaa: Car Bomb Kills Dozens In Shiite Area In Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A car bomb blew up Wednesday in a packed outdoor food market in one of the most peaceful areas of Iraq's Shiite south, killing about 3...

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Terry Barnich, Former Illinois Commerce Commission Chief, Killed In Iraq

AP | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Former Illinois Commerce Commission Chairman Terry Barnich was killed Monday by a roadside bomb while traveling in a U.S. convoy in we...

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Terrence Barnich: State Department Official Among 3 Americans Killed In Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb blasted a U.S. convoy west of Baghdad, killing three Americans, including a top reconstruction official who once heade...

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Baghdad Roadside Bomb Kills 3 US Soldiers

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city Thursday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of ...

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Shula: Car Bomb Blast Kills 34 In Northwest Baghdad

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded Wednesday near several restaurants in a Shiite neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, killing 41 people and injuring m...

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US Soldiers Kill Iraqi Boy, 12, After Thrown Grenade

New York Times | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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American soldiers shot and killed two people in the northern city of Mosul, including a 12-year-old boy the military said had thrown a hand grenade at...

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Steven Green Trial: A Bargain to Let War Criminals Go?

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

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As the jury deliberates on the hate-crime slaughter by U.S. soldiers of the al-Janabi family in Iraq in federal court in Paducah, Kentucky, the spotlight is on defendant ex-U.S. Army Private Steven Green.

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Iraq Violence: List Of Major Attacks Since January 1

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect: _ May 6 _ Parked car bomb explodes at a produce market in south ...

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Gunman In Iraqi Army Uniform Kills 2 US Soldiers

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 06.02.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — An Iraqi soldier opened fire on a U.S. military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and wounding three, the U.S. military sai...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iraq's Reversing Facts: Six car bombs strike Shia areas of Baghdad. This is the latest in a series of rec...

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Shiite Shrine Double Bombing Kills Scores In Baghdad

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine ...

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Secret Tally Shows 87,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed Since 2005: AP

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's government has recorded 87,215 of its citizens killed since 2005 in violence ranging from catastrophic bombings to execution-st...

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Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Suspected Leader Of Al Qaeda In Iraq, Arrested Amidst Wave Of Violence

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

BAGHDAD — Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian p...

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Iraq Insurgent Attacks Likely To Rise As US Troops Leave: Pentagon

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leav...

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Iraq Sees Marriage Boom Due To Less Violence

AP | KATARINA KRATOVAC | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Three cars bedecked in flowers and ribbons swerve around blast walls and honk through police checkpoints, before screeching to a halt ...

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Suicide Bomber Kills 10 In North Iraq

AFP | Marwan Ibrahim | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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Ten Iraqi policemen were killed and 22 others wounded when they were targeted by a suicide car bomber as they headed home from protecting an oil insta...

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Suicide Bomber Kills 9 Sunni Fighters In Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.12.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt Saturday among U.S.-allied Sunni paramilitaries collecting their salaries at an army bas...

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Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 9 Day After Deadly Wave Of Attacks

AP | KATARINA KRATOVAC | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A salesman rescued a baby from a blaze ignited by a car bombing in a Shiite neighborhood Tuesday, reaching through the shattered windo...

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Series of bombings in Baghdad Shiite areas kill 34

AP | HAMID AHMED | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Anger boiled over in Baghdad streets at Iraqi soldiers and police after they failed to prevent a stunning series of coordinated bombin...

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Art Galleries Reopening In Baghdad As Violence Ebbs

The Daily Star | Khalil Jalil | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD: Six years after the US-led invasion, art galleries are reopening in Baghdad in what is hoped are tentative signs of a renaissance in the Arab...

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