Keywords: ion of a new Iraqi government by insisting the two main election winners form a coalition, allowing Iraq's neighbours to meddle in its affairs, a top Shi'ite politician told Reuters. | Hadi al-Amiri, a parliamentarian who heads the Badr Organisation, the former armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council's (ISCI)
Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on Saturday. | The pair were arrested as a result of security camera footage that showed insurgents setting alight three dead soldiers and planting Al-Qaeda's flag, a defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The mother of Georgia's first soldier killed in combat in the Iraq war faced a deadline to move out of her house by Monday but has gotten a reprieve.Patricia Roberts faced foreclosure on her Lithonia home, where she was raising the child of her slain son, Jamaal Addison.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hosheyar Zebari believes that the five months delay in forming the new government puts Iraq in an awkward situation and hinders long term decisions, he said.
The Secretary General of Muslims Scholars Association Hareth Al Dari urged Syrian and Saudi authorities not to leave Iraq in the hands of the nations enemies, he said.
Source: International Organization for Migration (IOM) | IOM has distributed humanitarian aid to 127 IDP families living in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. | The majority of the families (82) were displaced from the Shikhan district of Ninewa in 2003, when the village where they were living was taken over by the Kurdish authorities.
Following are security developments in Iraq at 0645 GMT on Thursday.FALLUJA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed three soldiers and wounded four others in...
Following are security developments in Iraq at 0645 GMT on Thursday.FALLUJA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed three soldiers and wounded four others in...
Despite some recent improvements, Iraq's health-care services are still struggling to cope. The ICRC is engaged in a wide range of initiatives aimed at helping them to respond to emergencies. This is an update on activities carried out in the country in May and June.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims gathered for a religious ceremony amid tight security in the Iraqi city of Karbala Tuesday, a day after two bombs killed 35 people.
"We held a meeting this morning with the heads of the parliamentary blocs and we agreed to give more time to political entities to reach agreement regarding the selection of a speaker and his two deputies." | He added: "The representatives of the political entities insisted on calling the current government a caretaker administration." | Tuesday's session was to have been only the second since the March 7 parliamentary election.
Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
Alarabiya condemned the latest targeted suicide bombing attack on its bureau station in Baghdad on Monday that left four people and more than 10 others wounded.