Iraq market bombing kills 30

A car bomb exploded in a market in a southern Iraqi town on Wednesday, killing 30 people including women and children in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in weeks. Again A crime news from iraq...so sad..!!!...

Zoo Kill Boars Amid 'Swine Flu' Fear

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...

Former detainees released at JSS Doura

"BAGHDAD - Twenty-two Iraqi men pledged to their sheiks and family members they would abide by the laws of Iraq at a reconciliation ceremony held at Joint Security Station Doura, March 27. The men had been detained...

An Iraqi Soccer fan shoots a player

"Baghdad (Reuters): The police said that on Monday An Iraqi fan shoots a player dead from the rival club, while the player is about to score the equalizing goal in the last minutes of the game."

Shoe-throwing al-Zaidi is loved by young Iraqi women

The man who threw his shoe at George Bush during a press conference has become a idol for young Iraqi women and is worshipped as a celebrity. "Muntader al-Zaidi the Iraqi journalist, who infamously threw his shoes at...

Iraqi jailed for Bush shoe attack

3-year jail for Iraqi man who threw shoe at Bush.An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then US president George W Bush to three years in prison." An Iraqi journalist...

Obama Sets 2010 Date for Ending Iraq War

"President Obama told top leaders in Congress on Thursday that he will end combat operations in Iraq on Aug. 31, 2010, putting a halt to all U.S.-led counterinsurgency efforts and transitioning the mission in Iraq to training, advising and engaging in limited...

U.S. turns over joint security station in Baghdad to Iraqi Army

"BAGHDAD -Soldiers serving with the 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery Regiment, attached to the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, gave the reins of Joint Security Station Sheikh Marouf to...

Iraqi professor asks Israel for shipment of Hebrew books

" The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that an Iraqi college professor has asked it for a shipment of Hebrew books. Ofir Gendelman of the ministry's Arab press section says the professor sent an e-mail three weeks ago via the ministry's Arabic-language Web...

Iraqi national museum reopens for the first time since 2003

Savagely looted in 2003 during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraq’s national museum lost numerous one-of-a-kind artifacts of high historical and cultural value. Rarest exhibition samples were lost forever as the...

US soldiers hurt in Iraq attack

At least three US soldiers have been wounded and an Iraqi interpreter has been killed after coming under fire from police in Iraq." The shooting took place at 1500 (1200 GMT) at a checkpoint under a bridge in the...

Iraq: Female Suicide Bomber Kills 40, Mostly Women and Children

A female suicide bomber in Iraq has killed 40 and wounded more than 60 in an attack south of the capital of Baghdad.  The attack came along the route of a religious pilgrimmage from Baghdad to the Shiite holy city of Kerbala.  A woman entered a rest-stop tent filled...

Journalist gets statue dedicated to him after G.W.Bush shoe trow

Many Iraqis considered justice being done as a journalist tried to hit President George W. Bush with a shoe. However what the shoe trow has actually led to goes beyond just a singled out episode and becomes a statue at Tikrit, Iraq. Baghdad's artist Laith al-Amari created...

Bush shoe-thrower in good health

He is no hero but he is also nota dangerous criminal,  He should spend time in jail but certainlynot 15 years. ""Muntadhar was in a good shape ... and his morale was high. Yesterday was his birthday and some...

Women banned from Baghdad shrine

Troubled land of Iraq is more troublesome for women.Peoples kill each other in the name of power, but killing women specially on the name of religion makes the situation really worse.Iraq has a long tradition of empowered women compared to other so called islamic states,...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from