Many dead in northern Iraq after car bomb explodes in busy market

A resident cries near a damaged vehicle at the site of a suicide bomb attack Hours after US troops handed over full control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security forces, a car bomb in the north…

Iraq - US forces still holding journalist although charges were dismissed

MONTREAL, June 30 /CNW Telbec/ - As the US troops begin their withdrawal from Iraqi cities today, many questions remain about the persons still detained by the US forces. Reporters Without Borders r…

U.S. troops pull out of Iraqi cities

BAGHDAD — Iraq regained full control if its towns and cities on Tuesday as U.S. troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.Though some Iraqis fear the first step in a f…

Bomb kills 30 in Northern Iraq as U.S. troops leave

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 25 people on Tuesday, just after U.S. troops handed over full control of Iraq’s cities to the domestic security forc…

Court upholds conviction of man who sold chemicals to Saddam Hussein

T HE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch Supreme Court today upheld the war crimes conviction of a businessman for selling chemicals to Saddam Hussein that his regime in Iraq turned into poison gas a…

Car bomb kills at least 24 people in Iraqi city

B AGHDAD — A car bomb exploded in a crowded outdoor market in the northern city of Kirkuk today, killing at least 24 people, police said, a deadly reminder of the challenges facing the Iraqi gov…

Dick Cheney Worried by America’s Pull Back in Iraq

If Obama is going to help Chavez, Castro and Orgega reinstate Zedaya in Honduras, he’s going to need some spare troops. He can’t spread Marxism throughout the Americas if he doesn’t have t…

Mission Not Yet Accomplished

In this opinion piece Jawad Al Bolani, the interior minister of Iraq, writes that the June 30th withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq’s major cities is the start of a highly uncertain period for Iraqi d…

Mission Not Yet Accomplished

In this opinion piece Jawad Al Bolani, the interior minister of Iraq, writes that the June 30th withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq’s major cities is the start of a highly uncertain period for Iraqi d…

* BP, Chinese oil firm win first Iraq deals in decades

The Iraqi oil minister said that increasing oil production to 4 million barrels a day would pump an extra US$1.7 trillion into the country over 20 years

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