Christian shot dead in Mosul, one injured

A new incident against Chrisitan in Mosul leaves one person dead and another injured. The Iraqui government has promised to send more policing forces. It is alleged the attacks have been made...

Influential Iraqi lawmaker killed by roadside bomb

A senior Iraqi lawmaker was killed by a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad, Thursday morning.  Saleh al-Ageili, three bodyguards, and two civilian bystanders were killed when a bomb went off near the government motorcade.  The incident is being called an assassination...

Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops. To leave in 2011?

" Iraqi officials say the draft calls for U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 unless the Baghdad government asks them to stay. But legal immunity for U.S. soldiers under Iraqi law has emerged as...

Bomb explode near Baghdad Green Zone as US official visits

Two bomb blasts are reported to have struck outside Iraq's foreign ministry  tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte prepared to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound nearby.  " Two powerful bombs exploded just...

Two Black Hawks down in Baghdad

This is another incident of chopper crash......oho.......might be shoot down by the forces ,offcourse by Iraqi militia.Even if Black Hawk had not been gunned down as officials claim, then the collision raises the...

Bombs near Baghdad Shiite mosques kills 24

As Shiite worshippers left two Baghdad mosques on Thursday, suicide bombers set off two bombs, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others.Six Sunnis were also shot in a separate attack as they traveled in a minibus in the mostly Shiite town of Wajihiyah."The dead were...

Maliki hints Bush tried to help McCain by extending U.S. troop presence in Iraq

Named source - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki  - says negotiations with U.S. over Iraq withdrawal seemed suspect, even political."Last July, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said U.S. troops should be out of Iraq “as soon as possible” and endorsed Sen....

Female Iraqi Police Graduate

As more and more women carry out bomb attacks in Iraq by detonating themselves, females have finally been permited to join the police force and the first 21 women obtained their certificates in Diyala last week."Recognizing a need for women to frisk other women, whom male...

Iraqi MP: No SOFA without sovereignty

The draft of the the Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) which grants immunity from prosecution to US solidiers, continues to stri controversy in Iraq. A Member of Parliament -Sheikh Hamid Rashid Maala- has...

Iraq or Osama Bin Laden - Please exlain

"Iraq or Osama Bin Laden - Please exlain"I keep reading different post where people are using the war to say that Obama does not respect soldiers and does not want us to fight the war on terror. Where is the war on...

Iraqi FM: SOFA draft text ready

Speaking from Switzerland, the Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari informed there was agreement on the US-Iraqi draft of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This security pact has been negotiate for a long time now...

Gov. Palin Washington Post blows it

" Washington Post blows it By Michelle Malkin  •  September 12, 2008 07:31 AM In a page 1 news story, Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut accuses Sarah Palin of asserting “that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan...

Woodward: US spies Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki

In his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, seasoned journalist Robert Woodward revealed the US has been spying on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Such revelations...

16 US Troops Commit Group Suicide in Iraq

This group of US soldiers who are alleged to have committed suicide may well be just the latest in a pattern of similar events."Sixteen US troops from the a unit of the Airborne Division have committed suicide inside...

Bush likely to pull 8,000 troops from Iraq in January

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is expected to keep U.S. troop levels in Iraq near their current level through the end of the year, then pull home up to 8,000 combat and support troops by mid-January, The Associated Press has learned. ...

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