U.S. troops have withdrew in Iraq Tuesday morning, six years after leading a controversial coalition to invade the Arab nation. Iraqi troops assumed formal control over the nation's capital as U.S. troops...
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Stephen Colbert got a shaved head during his time in Iraq courtesy of General Ray Odierno. General Ray Odierno was instructed by President Obama to give Stephen Colbert a military style buzz cut so the...
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Stephen Colbert, the comedian and satirical host of The Colbert Report, will broadcast four episodes of his hit comedy show from Baghdad, Iraq next week in a series he's calling "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going...
Steven Green, the former US soldier convicted of orchestrating the gang rape of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a 14 year old girl, and the brutal murder of her and her entire family in Iraq in 2006, will not face the death...
Bombing attacks in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk killed at least 23 people early Thursday morning , including three US soldiers. The attacks come only a day after about 40 people were killed in a car bomb in north-western Baghdad. Twelve people, including the US...
Micro-grant programs are helping schools and businesses get back on their feet Iraq. "Because of the micro-grant program, this school, along with local businesses, now has proper facilities to help improve...
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Sgt. John M Russel, the U.S. soldier who shot and killed five fellow GIs in a shooting rampage at Camp Liberty, a military base in Baghdad, May 11, 2009 has been formally charged with murder. "The...
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I'm starting to get immune to all the news on the H1N1 virus. It's here, right in my city, and I just have to deal with it, without allowing other people's panic take control of my life. This story caught me...
BY ELISA MIGNOT, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE "We were living in a truck when the Americans attacked," said the man in a low and shaky voice. "We hid behind the driver's seat." He was perched on a chair in the refugee service of Amnesty...
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A day after 84 people were killed in suicide attacks in Iraq, a double bombing in Baghdad has left at least 60 people dead and over 125 injured. The suicide attacks happened at the most important Shia shrine in Baghdad as people gathered for early morning prayers on Friday. ...
Bombing in Iraq is not so important until any foreigner is killed in the incident.Last day they killed five US soldiers in the bombing incident, and today a suicide bomber blew himself to kill Sunni people, in this incident he killed 9 Sunni militiamen.How Obama is going to...
When President Obama made his unannounced detour to Iraq, the White House press pool was momentarily left in the dark and clueless as their on-board map was left blank. CBS News Producer, Jeff Goldman was one...
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Update 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time The President has now left Iraq - his trip lasting about four hours. His final words to the U.S. troops, "The main point I want to make is we have not forgotten what you have already...
A day after seven car bombs killed 37 people in Baghdad yesterday, another car exploded in the Shi'ite Kadhimiya district on Tuesday. At least 9 people died and 20 were wounded in the northwest of Baghdad. "Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at...
Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100 others. " A blast at a popular market in the Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up...