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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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April 27, 2007, 12:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report that visiting US defense secretary Robert Gates heard this from the American commanders he met Thursday and Friday, April 18-19 in Baghdad and Falluja, capital of al Qaeda's hotbed Anbar province.
In the capital, al Qaeda is taking advantage of this shortcoming to stall the US-Iraqi ...
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April 26, 2007, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Islamic State in Iraq claimed there were two blasts which also wounded 20 American troops at their base northeast of Baghdad.
New US ambassador Ryan Crocker, in his first news conference Monday, pressed Iraq's feuding leaders to reach early broad political compromises for healing the country. He said the ...
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April 24, 2007, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
A British soldier was killed by an IED roadside bomb in Basra.
In the last attack, three cars exploded near a restaurant and market in Ramadi, killing 20 people. Earlier, a bomber walked into a restaurant near the fortified Green Zone and blew himself up leaving 7 dead and 10 wounded. Ten ...
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April 24, 2007, 1:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ryan Crocker, in his first news conference Monday, said Iraq's feuding leaders must reach broad political compromises for healing the country. He said the months ahead were critical for prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's government coalition. debkafile adds: The incoming ambassador echoed the sense conveyed by US secretary of ...
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April 22, 2007, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
After talks with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad, US defense secretary Robert Gates told a news conference: The Bush administration will take progress into account in its summer decision whether or not to bring home some of the thousands of extra troops sent to tamp down violence.
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April 22, 2007, 7:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The gunmen stopped a bus Sunday carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory to their home town of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Christians and Yazidis (a small Kurdish sect). They told the Christians to get off the bus and drove the Yazidis away, lined them up against ...
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April 21, 2007, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four troops died and three were wounded in two missile attacks in Baghdad.
A US marine killed and two were injured in a rocket attack on their Mahmoudiya base south of the capital Thursday night
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April 18, 2007, 6:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The group known as the Islamic State in Iraq announced over the Internet that the 48-hour ultimatum issued on Saturday had expired. "An Islamic court has ruled... the men's execution. Al Qaeda had demanded the release of all Sunni Muslim women held in Iraq's prisons and the handing over of ...
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April 18, 2007, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
A voice said to be that of Abu Omar al Baghdadi, leader of al Qaeda's "Islamic State of Iraq," claimed in an audiotape released Tuesday, April 17, to have begun manufacturing homemade Al Quds-1 (Jerusalem-1) rockets. He said they had an "advanced degree of range and accuracy."
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April 16, 2007, 6:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Kerbala bombing occurred near the Imam Ali mosque.
Ten more Iraqis were killed, 15 injured in the blast that destroyed the Jadriyah bridge in southern Baghdad near the university Saturday, the second key Tigris River bridge that a suicide bomber destroyed in the capital in two days. The first ...
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April 16, 2007, 6:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Most of the bomb victims were again Shiites . Two car bombs and a mortar round killed 18 Iraqis, injured dozens, in the southern al-Shruta al-Arabaa market place. Six more, were killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up an hour later in a minibus in northern Baghdad. The ...
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April 15, 2007, 11:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Kerbala bombing occurred at a bus station near the Imam Ali mosque. The death is rising as emergency vehicles reach the scene through frenzied crowds.
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April 14, 2007, 10:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Police try to rescue at least 20 others whose cars fell into the water. The iron bridge connected the two halves of Baghdad.
In a payback operation for 6 comrades killed last week, British forces in Basra shot dead 20 Shiite militiamen. An armored force of 400 troops battled the militiamen for ...
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April 12, 2007, 9:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
US military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, told reporters Wednesday, April 11: "We know from detainee debriefs that training has gone on in Iran as recently as this past month for people to learn how to assemble and employ them."
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April 11, 2007, 4:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US patrol was hit by a bomb which exploded near their patrol in the Iraqi capital. Another suicide bomber killed 6 people, most students, at Baghdad university. Monday, a US soldier was killed in battle with Shiite militia in Diwaniya south of Baghdad. In the first 9 days of ...
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April 10, 2007, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
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In 2006, the Pentagon spent $1.4 bn to develop sophisticated counter measures for roadside bombs, which account for more US deaths in Iraq than any other weapon. They were designed to locate and detonate the improvised explosive devices IEDs from afar, before ... 
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April 10, 2007, 7:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites burned US flags in an anti-American protest in the southern city of Najaf Monday in response to a call by the pro-Iranian Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who also ordered his Mehdi Army militia to intensify their attacks on US forces. He called on Iraqi ...
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April 10, 2007, 6:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three of the US troops were killed by a roadside bomb on patrol south of Baghdad, one in an attack also south of the capital and two died of combat wounds sustained in Diyala and Salahudding provinces to the north. Saturday, an explosion near their vehicle killed 4 US soldiers ...
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April 8, 2007, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
The British military spokeswoman in Basra described the attack as "a serious incident" which took place in Hayaniya, a Mehdi Army militia stronghold of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in the northwestern outskirts of Basra.
The blasts are said to have occurred as a UK patrol drove near an Iraqi police checkpoint ...
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April 5, 2007, 8:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
An Iraqi army official says the chopper was fired on from a Sunni militant stronghold Thursday.
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