Iraq Violence

Dozens Die In Iraq Bombings During Gates Visit

AP | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi official...

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More Than 50 Killed in Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Car bombs and gunmen struck new U.S. allies, police and civilians Sunday in northern Iraq, killing as many as 53 people. The spate of ...

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Explosion Kills 17 in Northern Iraq

AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — A thunderous blast tore through a vacant apartment building in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding ...

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Violence Mars Shiite Holiday In Iraq

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 01.19.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10...

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Clashes Kill Nearly 50 in Southern Iraq

AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 01.18.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern cities Friday when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked police and ...

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Rate Of Suicide Bombs Rises In Iraq

Reuters | Peter Graff | Posted 12.29.2007 | Home

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Petraeus said the number of attacks in Iraq had fallen by 60 percent since June and the number of civilian deaths had fallen by 75 percent since a yea...

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4 Sunni Allies Of US Killed In Iraq

New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 12.26.2007 | Home

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Four members of a local American-backed Awakening group in Diyala Province were killed Wednesday when a house they were raiding exploded, the police s...

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It's Not Over, Over There

Joe Galloway | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

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In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news coming out of Iraq.

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Iraq Slipping To 'New Depths Of Lawlessness'

New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | Posted 12.01.2007 | Politics

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Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, carwashes steal water from public pipes and nearly...

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US Blames Iran-Backed Militants For Deadly Baghdad Market Bombing

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics

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The U.S. military on Saturday blamed the deadly bombing of a pet market in Baghdad on Iranian-backed Shiite militants, raising concerns that escalatin...

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US Reports Drop In Iraq Attacks...

Washington Post | Sudarsan Raghavan and David Finkel | Posted 11.18.2007 | Home

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U.S. officials on Sunday declared a 55 percent drop in attacks since the launch of an offensive nine months ago, while bombs across Iraq killed at lea...

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Iraqis Forced To Conceal Work For US For Fear Of Retribution

The New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home

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For Hamed, a forklift driver at an American military base, life has become a series of disguises. He has been a cabdriver, a man who does not underst...

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Cheney In '92: "How Many Additional American Lives Is Saddam Worth...Not Very Damn Many"

Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics

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A recently-unearthed video from 1992 shows Vice President Dick Cheney predicting the mess that occupying Iraq would create: If you get into the b...

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Sunni Insurgents In New Campaign To Kill Officials

The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 09.25.2007 | Home

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Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...

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The Progress for Iraq

Huda Ahmed | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics

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The added security does not appear to be the result of Gen. Petraeus' surge, but rather because the militias of both sides have no reason to fight.

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'Whack-A-Mole': Violence Spikes In Southern Iraq As Insurgents Adapt To Surge

Washington Post | Posted 09.18.2007 | Politics

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Security is deteriorating in southern Iraq as rival Shiite militias vying for power have stepped up their attacks after moving out of Baghdad to avoid...

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US-Backed Sunni Shiek Killed In Anbar Bombing

Associated Press | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.13.2007 | Home

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The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anba...

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"Wash Post" Says Military Is "Cherry-Picking" Facts to Prove Iraqi Violence Down

Editor & Publisher | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media

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With the "surge" report due next week, the U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months "has come under scrutiny...

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