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89 articles tagged "Iraq"
DEBKAfile
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June 16, 2009, 3:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Gulf sources report that the assassination Friday, June 12, of Hareth al-Obaidi, head of the Iraqi Accordance Front bloc, is seen as a major disaster for the Sunni Arab world and an omen of worse to come.
Fears of a systematic liquidation of Sunni leaders in Iraq at ... 
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December 25, 2008, 6:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Days before Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Tehran, his government has told the opposition People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) it is no longer welcome in Iraq.
Ashraf Camp, their sanctuary 70 km north of Baghdad for two decades, will be closed and 3,500 occupants face deportation to their ... 
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October 27, 2008, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US defense secretary Robert Gates responded angrily to Iraq's unanimous vote Saturday, Oct. 21 to demand amendments in the draft status-of-forces agreement providing for US troops to stay in Iraq until 2011. There will be "pretty dramatic" consequences," Gates said unless Iraqi politicians get behind the agreement.
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October 16, 2008, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
A businessman gunned down in his shop Sunday was the 12th Christian killed in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul since Sept. 28 in the worst violence targeting this minority in five years. Prime minister Maliki has deployed 1,000 police to patrol the four largely Christian districts of Mosul and ...
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July 30, 2008, 6:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
They killed at least 57 people, wounded nearly 300 in Baghdad and the northern oil city of Kirkuk Monday, July 28.
A senior US military official blamed al Qaeda for the attacks in Baghdad, the worst since June 17. Three women detonated their bomb vests in the middle of a procession ...
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July 7, 2008, 5:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Leaflets naming Iraqi firms doing business with Israeli exporters have been circulated in Iraq for the purpose of stopping the trade, which now amounts to between $800 and a million a year. debkafile's sources report that the leaflets are circulated anonymously. Some sources calculate that Tehran is behind ...
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June 25, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The attack took place in the southern section of Sadr City at a local council meeting for electing new members to replace representatives of the Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr. One of the civilians killed was a State Department employee, the second worked for the Defense Department. Three of the ...
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June 19, 2008, 7:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
The explosion occurred in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriya. The deadliest bombing in Baghdad in months was timed to go off when the bus stop was crowded during the early evening rush hour.
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June 14, 2008, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
On the long-term treaty regulating the US military's future role in Iraq, Iraqi politicians are challenging what they call American demands to maintain more than 50 permanent bases in Iraq. The US president, on a farewell tour of Europe, said in Berlin June 11 that he believes his administration will ...
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January 21, 2008, 6:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Another 217 people injured. The violence erupted Friday in the southern towns of Basra and Nasiriya when Soldiers of Heaven messianic cultists attacked Shiite worshippers and security forces. In Nasiriyah, the cultists fired mortars at a police station followed by a machine gun and RPG assault. Among the 15 killed ...
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December 26, 2007, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reporting this, the Turkish military said Tuesday, Dec. 25, hundreds of PKK insurgents had been killed in four air strikes, one ground incursion and artillery bombardment of Kurdish PKK hideouts. The fourth took place Tuesday after Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani, at a news conference in Suleimaniya, warned Ankara to ...
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November 30, 2007, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The deal in principle was concluded by the US president and Iraqi prime minister over a secure video-link Monday, Nov. 26, amid the hubbub leading up to the Annapolis Middle East conference.
Iraqi officials foresaw a long-term presence of 50,000 US troops, down from the current 170,000. They will withdraw ... 
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November 27, 2007, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
The president of Iraqi Kurdistan is said to have been taken secretly to a hospital in central Tel Aviv after a brief stopover in Amman, Jordan. This is not confirmed by any other source. Neither is the report that Barzani had been wounded Friday, Nov. 24, in an assassination attempt ...
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November 5, 2007, 10:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
At international talks on Iraq security taking place in Istanbul Saturday, Nov. 3, Maliki vowed to stop Kurdish rebels using Iraq as a base for attacks against Turkey. debkafile's military sources: Iraq has nothing like the military strength needed to take on the Turkish separatists PKK rebels carrying ...
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September 8, 2007, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
This leaves 5,000 soldiers, all of whom were redeployed from southern Iraqi provinces to a base in Basra international airport. The rest of the British force is expected to leave in the coming months.
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August 22, 2007, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iraqi premier, Nouri al-Maliki, arrived in the Syrian capital Monday, Aug. 20 accompanied by his oil minister, Hussein Shahristani. The Syrian army and military intelligence provided the groundwork for the neighborly visit by keeping the border with Iraq sealed for the last two weeks. Bashar Assad approved this closure ...
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August 14, 2007, 7:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
This was announced Wednesday, Aug. 9, after Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki's visit to Tehran.
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July 6, 2007, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The parked car exploded in the Shiite district of Shaab before nightfall.
Two pilots were rescued with minor injuries from a US attack helicopter shot down south of Baghdad Monday. An American warplane dropped two laser-guided bombs to destroy downed Kiowa. US and Iraqi forces backed by war planes and ...
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June 8, 2007, 10:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Raheem al-Hasnawi, who represented Grand Ayatolllah Ali Sistani in the town of al-Mishkhab, north of the shrine city of Najef, was gunned down Tuesday night outside his home. There is no indication of responsibility. At least 7 people were killed, 25 wounded in two almost simultaneous parked car explosions in ...
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May 29, 2007, 1:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Seven American soldiers died Saturday in separate attacks.
Also Sunday, US troops freed 41 Iraqi citizens kidnapped and tortured by al Qaeda in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad. |
