BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In a second day of major bloodshed, two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up at the gates of a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Baghdad on Friday, killing 60 people, Iraqi police said. The attack was the deadliest ...
When Millie Furlong struggled to flee a burning aircraft just outside of Phuket, ... Get the daily headlines emailed to you every morning with the Vancouver Sun newsletter. BAGHDAD - Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces shut streets in Baghdad and placed snipers on rooftops on Friday before a protest by followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr against a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain for three more years. Scores of soldiers with ...
Imagine if municipalities decided that police would no longer enforce speed limits... Get the daily headlines emailed to you every morning with the Vancouver Sun newsletter. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's cabinet approved a pact on Sunday that will let ...
AL-QUDS PLANT, Iraq (Reuters) - For many Iraqis, progress in rebuilding a nation reduced to rubble by years of war and destruction is measured by the flick of a switch. Electricity has become a central, stubbornly negative, bellwether in assessing how ...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iranian delegation failed to meet U.S. officials in Baghdad for talks on security in Iraq and was forced to go home last week without meeting the Americans due to a mix-up over dates, Iraq's foreign minister said. Observers who ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital can soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday. Lieutenant-General ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb blasts ripped through two popular pet markets in Baghdad on Friday, killing 72 people in the deadliest attacks in the city in six months and dealing a bitter blow to Iraqi hopes that security is getting better. Police said a ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces have begun a "decisive" final offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq to push the Sunni Islamist militants out of their last major stronghold in the north, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday. He said Iraqi ...
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