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Iraq: Kurdish journalist detained, faces prosecution
The Committee to Protect Journalists Wednesday condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 3/25/2006

US says Iraqis to be in charge of borders by July
Iraqi government security forces will take responsibility by July of this year for securing all of Iraq's borders, a top US commander said on Friday, giving them control over frontiers with Iran and Syria.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/25/2006

17 killed in continued Iraqi violence
Outcome of victims of the attacks in Iraq increased to 14 persons including one Danish soldier after the killing of 6 persons and injuring other 17 near two mosques for the Arab Sunni in al-Zubeir and al-Khales.
Iraq, Military, 3/25/2006

On the formation of the Iraqi government
The US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that what he described as terrorists were intending by blowing of the Shiite shrine in Samaraa to obstruct the formation of a national unity government in Iraq.
Iraq, Politics, 3/24/2006

Al-Sader offices broken into, hostages freed in Iraq
an assistant for the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader said that the American forces on Thursday evening broke into a station for the Sadri trend east of the capital Baghdad and detained all its working staff
Iraq, Military, 3/24/2006

Danish soldier killed in Basra, 54 Iraqis also
The Danish army announced that one of its soldiers was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion near al-Basra city, south of Iraq. Thereby number of Danish soldiers who have been killed since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 increased to four.
Iraq-Denmark, Military, 3/24/2006

Concern over Palestinians conditions in Iraq
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced increasing concern over the situation of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Baghdad amid reports that more than 100 families had received written death threats and that many are in a state of shock and panic.
Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 3/24/2006

Rumsfled on the US stay in Iraq
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/24/2006

CIA revelation on US decision to make war on Iraq
The Iraqi former foreign minister Naji Sabri denied that he had several months before the war against Iraq given information to the CIA on any program of Iraqi mass destruction weapons.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/23/2006

UN notes increased killings and torture in Iraq
"Allegations that 'death squads' operate in the country grew stronger following the discovery by the Multi-National Forces in Iraq (MNF-I) and the Iraqi Security Forces of a suspicious group, acting within the structures of the Ministry of Interior," the report says.
Iraq-UN, Politics, 3/23/2006

US urges for a unity government in Iraq
Concerning political development in Iraq, US President George W. Bush urged the Iraqis to maintain understanding in order to form the new Iraqi government after three months of the legislative elections.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/23/2006

Scores killed in Iraq
Acts of violence which took place in various parts of Iraq resulted in killing scores yesterday including members of the Iraqi police at a time when the Iraqi security forces could detain several suspects over their involvement in certain armed acts.
Iraq, Military, 3/23/2006

Khameini calls Washington to withdraw from Iraq
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asked the USA to withdraw its forces from Iraq, ruling out that talks with the USA over Iraq would deal with any other points of differences between the Americans and the Iranians.
Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 3/22/2006

Bush: Iraqis decided against civil war
Bush, in an open exchange with the media was asked "your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war?"
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/22/2006

40 Iraqis killed in another bloody day in Iraq
Iraq yesterday witnessed another bloody day that left behind more than 40 killings most of them are police men.
Iraq, Military, 3/22/2006

Jordan bans entry of Palestinian families from Iraq
The Jordanian authorities banned the entry of scores of Palestinian families evacuating from Iraq, fleeing repression and violence.
Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 3/21/2006

Hakim call for a central Iraq's district
Concerning the current consultations to form a new government which are stand still, the chairman of the Higher Council For The Islamic Revolution (Shiite) in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, renewed his demand to establish "central and south Iraq" district.
Iraq, Politics, 3/21/2006

Islamic Army in Iraq puts conditions for negotiations with USA
The official spokesman for the Islamic Army in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Shumarri, disclosed that there are contacts through mediators with groups representing resistance in Iraq, but the Islamic army did not take part in it.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/21/2006

Christian Science Monitor on Iraqi turmoil
A report in the Christian Science Monitor describing the situation in Iraq said "The toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime was supposed to usher in a new era for the Middle East, according to the architects of the invasion, one in which Islamic extremism would be rooted out and budding democracies would replace stifling dictatorships."
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/21/2006

13 killed in Iraq amid security alert measures
Iraqi security sources said that 13 persons were killed including 7 security men. Other seven were injured in various acts of violence took place in various parts of the country on the third anniversary of the war against Iraq.
Iraq, Military, 3/21/2006

100,000 march in London against Blair's war
Well over 100,000 anti-war protesters from across Britain marched in London Saturday against three years of occupation in Iraq and the threats of a military attack on Iran.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 3/20/2006

Anti-war rally held at Syntagma Square in Athens
An anti-war rally was held on Saturday afternoon at Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece, that joined its voice with 200 other cities all over the world against war, on a day that marks the third anniversary of the outbreak of war in Iraq.
Iraq-Greece, Politics, 3/20/2006

Iraq greets fourth year of occupation with lost security, adjourned government
The war in Iraq enters its fourth year while there are still 1500 American and American soldiers participating in a military operation in Samara town north of Baghdad described by military men as the largest strike operation in Iraq since toppling the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq, Politics, 3/20/2006

On the Iran - US talks over Iraq, Talabani's support
An Iranian lawmaker yesterday warned of the possibility US-Iran talks on the subject of Iraq could be used by the US as a means of resolving its own problems.
Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 3/20/2006


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