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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
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DEBKAfile
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February 26, 2008, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dozens more were injured when a bomber detonated a bomb vest in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Iskandiriya as they walked south to Karbala to celebrate the Arbaeen religious festival Sun. Feb. 24.
Al Qaeda also struck twice in the Anbar provincial town of Falluja Sunday, killing five members ... 
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February 18, 2008, 12:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
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From 2003, when Muammar Qaddafi made his peace with the United States and the West, he began touting his second eldest son Saif al-Islam as his anointed favorite and future ruler of Libya. But a few weeks ago, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Middle East ... 
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February 11, 2008, 2:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Just in time for George W. Bush's Middle East tour, al Qaeda's new operational arm, Fatah al-Islam, has completed its redeployment on two warfronts Iraq and the Gaza Strip, orchestrated by its Palestinian chief Shaker al-Abessi from his new base in Iraq.
Suicide attacks in Iraq are climbing again as ... 
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February 3, 2008, 11:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the worst bombings in the Iraqi capital in six months, the women suicides reported to have been mentally retarded were blown up by mobile phones at two popular pet markets, Friday, Feb. 1.
The US death toll in Iraq increased in January to 38 - mostly outside Baghdad and ...
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February 3, 2008, 11:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ehud Barak's announced Sunday, Feb. 3, that he intends to stay on as defense minister and keep his Labor party in the government coalition. He was greeted with jubilation in the prime minister's office and hoots of derision from political figures across the spectrum from left to right, including his ...
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February 1, 2008, 9:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
Five US soldiers were killed in Mosul Monday, Jan. 28, by small arms fire and a roadside bomb. An Iraqi Sunni police official, Col. Jubair Rashid Najef, pointed the finger at the Seifaddin Regiment, sponsored by Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, which he said arrived in Mosul ...
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January 25, 2008, 6:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Brig. Gen. Falih Mohammed Hassan, police chief of the northern Iraqi town of Mosul was injured in an ambush Thursday, Jan. 24 while touring the scene of a blast which killed at least 18 civilians and wounded 146 the day before. The attackers opened fire on the general as he ...
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January 14, 2008, 5:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
US F-18, F-16 and B-1 bombers dropped 21,000 tons of bombs on the Arab Jabour farm region on Baghdad's southern fringe Thursday, Jan. 10. Official statements maintained al Qaeda havens and underground weapons and roadside caches were targeted. debkafile's military sources disclose that the area hammered is ruled ...
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December 4, 2007, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
After six days touring Iraq, Dep. Secretary of State John Negroponte noted Sunday, Dec. 2, that political reconciliations among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds lags behind a further drop in violence and could slow its momentum towards peace.
Although violence in the capital has declined, Lt. Col. Aqeel Abdul Hussein, assistant ...
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December 2, 2007, 8:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Adnan al-Dulaimi was confined to his home after his son, Mekki, and three dozen bodyguards were arrested by a US-Iraqi force Friday when two bomb cars were found in the family's Baghdad compound. The Front holds 44 seats in the 275-member house. Al Dulaimi, an opponent of Shiite prime minister ...
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November 27, 2007, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
US President George W. Bush made sure of a wall-to-wall Arab audience in Washington on Monday, Nov. 26, when, over a secure video-link, he signed a deal in principle with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki for an "enduring" US military presence in Iraq.
Iraqi officials foresaw a long-term presence of ...
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November 25, 2007, 10:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Rear Admiral Gregory Smith said this was in line with President George W. Bush's withdrawal schedule. "Current conditions allow for a withdrawal of the first unit, the Grey Wolf Brigade, starting on November 27th," Smith told reporters at a press conference in Baghdad Saturday.
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November 25, 2007, 9:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
US military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith said Saturday the attack, the deadliest after a two-month lull in violence, was rigged by Shiite insurgents to look like the work of al Qaeda.
Also Friday, a suicide bomber killed three civilians and 10 policemen in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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November 18, 2007, 4:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior military officers in Iraq, including Gen. Raymond Odierno, say their US and Iraqi army's good work and increased US troop strategy are going to waste as a result of political paralysis in Baghdad.
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November 16, 2007, 12:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The total figure is expected to shrink from 167,000 US soldiers in Iraq now to 140,000-150,000 by July, six months before President Bush leaves office, according to AP. Meanwhile, it should become clear if the reduction in violence has lasting effect. The upward trend in security is offset by the ...
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November 16, 2007, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
An estimated 15 terrorists and 5 Iraqi citizens were killed in a daylong battle with US and Iraqi forces, Nov. 13, after 45 aattacked two checkpoints with small arms and heavy machine guns. The al Qaeda raid was one of the biggest on the neighborhood patrols, since they were recruited ...
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November 15, 2007, 4:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
One was shot dead by insurgents in the northern city of Mosul; two others were killed in a blast that targeted their patrol in Diyala northeast of Baghdad; the fourth American soldier was gunned down in the town of Al-Wahda south of Baghdad.
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November 14, 2007, 1:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
It is too soon to tell whether these reports represent a credible trend, said the US defense secretary Robert Gates Friday.
debkafile adds: Tehran injected the armor-piercing explosives and roadside bombs to Iraq to harass US forces, and is now stemming their flow as a chip for a deal ...
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November 13, 2007, 10:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reporting a 59 percent fall in attacks by Iranian-made explosives, including the deadly armor-piercing EFP, US Maj-Gen Rick Lynch said his troops are chasing 20 Iraqi Shiite agents for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps elite all Qods Brigade trained in Iran. He said, "They're Iraqis but they are IRGC surrogates ...
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November 12, 2007, 3:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Large multiple weapons caches also discovered in the first week of the offensive, including more than a tonne of explosives, hundreds of artillery rounds and rockets. It was launched to flush out the al Qaeda networks which were driven out of Anbar Province and Baghdad and relocated in northern Iraq. ...
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