Iraq sends Iraqi asylum seekers back to UK - entry refused

A number of Iraqi's who were deported from the United Kingdom and sent back to Iraq have been refused entry when they arrived at Baghdad.The group of 40 or so asylum seekers and now been brought back to the UK and are waiting to be deported again at...

Deadly bomb blastkill seven in Ramadi: Iraq

One more blast in western city of Rmada in Iraq, and the result is seven dead and several seriously injured. The withdrawl of US force from the Iraq has given an open field for the regional group to demonstrate there power, and they do so by killing innocent."At least seven...

A year on, Reuters cameraman still held by U.S. army

Baghdad - Ibrahim Jassam, a journalist for Reuters, got taken from his home in his underwear on September 2, 2008 by U.S. and Iraqi troops. A year later, nobody, his friends, family, nor global news agency Reuters...

Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim: Powerful Iraqi Shiite Leader Dies in Iran

Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim  was a kings-maker in Iraqi politics who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim died August 26, 2009 after a battle with lung cancer....

Iraqi protest at media censorship

" About 200 Iraqi journalists, writers and publishers have protested in Baghdad at what they say is growing state interference in their work. The protest follows the introduction of new rules for censoring books,...

34 killed in Iraqi bombings, Several Injured

US troops withdrawl and rise in the activity of extremist.In latest incident of suicide bombing atleast 34 people died and several injured in town of Talafar, near mosul.It is useless to mention which group killed which community people, because ultimately humans are dying. "...

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...

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