CAMP VICTORY, Iraq (AFP) - US Vice President Joe Biden marked Independence Day with American troops at a palace of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein on Sunday ahead of talks with the two men vying to lead Iraq's next government.
Speaking to soldiers in the rotunda of Al-Fao Palace, a jewel in the era of the ousted Iraqi president that is now part of US military base Camp Victory, just north of B [...]
RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday killing at least four people, the interior ministry said.
The attack comes amid a surge in violence which in past weeks has swept the province of Anbar and its capital Ramadi, shattering a long period of relative calm in what was once the epicent [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - An explosion ripped through a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to southern Turkey on Saturday, sparking a fire, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The blast, whose origin remains unknown, hit a section of the pipeline near Midyat town in the southeastern province of Mardin, the agency said.
The pipeline has in the past been targeted by Kurdish insurgents active in the regio [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for a surprise visit aimed at bolstering Iraq's fledgling democracy almost four months after an inconclusive election.
Biden, wearing a blue blazer and khaki slacks, was accompanied on the trip by his wife Jill, who the White House said was on her first visit to the war-torn country.
The White House said that the [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring northern Iraq overnight following deadly clashes inside Turkey, the military said Friday.
"The targets were hit successfully," it said in an online statement, without any mention of casualties among the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The warplanes targeted PKK hideouts in the Qandil mountains and the Khakurk [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Roadside bombs in Baghdad Thursday killed two civilians and wounded 12 people, including three soldiers and a militiaman, while a goldsmith was shot dead south of the capital, Iraqi officials said.
Twin bombs, which were detonated in quick succession, killed a civilian and wounded seven people, including the soldiers, in the Yarmuk district of west Baghdad, the interior mi [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The number of Iraqis killed in violence fell sharply year-on-year in June, figures released on Wednesday showed, with a slight fall in deaths from last month also recorded.
Overall, 284 people -- 204 civilians, 50 police and 30 soldiers -- died in June, the health, defence and interior ministries in Baghdad told AFP.
The figure was one third less than the 437 people who d [...]
ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqi Kurdish leaders told a visiting Turkish business delegation on Wednesday that tensions over cross-border raids by the Turkish army should not be allowed to affect booming trade.
The prime minister of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Barham Saleh, criticised "unilateral" Turkish military action against suspected rear-bases for Kurdish rebel attacks inside Turkey [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his arch rival for the premiership Iyad Allawi met on Tuesday, aides said, in a bid to thrash out a row that has stalled coalition talks for months.
The meeting was only their second head-to-head since an inconclusive March 7 general election that has created a prolonged power vacuum and fears insurgents intent on derailing constitut [...]
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