NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms.
"Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you," Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of his disbanded Mahdi Army militia, a statement from his office i [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran and Iraq have formed a joint committee with the Red Cross to shut down Camp Ashraf in Iraq which houses thousands of outlawed Iranian opponents, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Saturday.
"The camp will be shut down by the end of this year," Talabani said on the sidelines of a counter-terrorism summit in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reporte [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Large volumes of diesel fuel destined for Iraq's power stations are stolen each month by transportation contractors in cahoots with electricity ministry officials, an inspector said on Thursday.
Such theft is exacerbating life in Iraq where ordinary citizens receive no more than six hours of state-supplied electricity a day in winter and fewer than four hours [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Thursday it was imperative to trim the size of the government, the biggest in Iraq's contemporary history.
He also added that official graft must be seriously tackled, and called on parliament to expedite bills he said were lagging, and hampering his government's work.
"Reducing the size of the government and all unn [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Explosives packed into three shopping carts ripped through a crowded market in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 107, an interior ministry official said.
And in other violence an American contractor was killed and four Iraqis died in separate attacks in the country.
But the bloodiest was the market bombing which came at rush ho [...]
MILAN (AFP) - (AFP) - An Italian prosecutor is investigating the country's largest energy group ENI and two of its executives over suspected corruption related to projects in Iraq and Kuwait, the company said Wednesday.
The Milan prosecutor's office is probing whether the executives took kickbacks from Italian engineering and construction firms in exchange for subcontracts to drill [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Bomb and gun attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Wednesday killed five people and wounded 36, 15 of them policemen, officials said.
A car bomb in the Al-Ghazaliyah district of west Baghdad killed one civilian and wounded nine people, three of them policemen, an officer said.
In the Al-Ameriya district of the capital, two improvised bombs targeting a poli [...]
DIWANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Two suicide car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 26 people outside the provincial governor's home in Diwaniyah city on Tuesday, officials said, as violence surged across Iraq.
Most of the dead were policemen, a medic said, while a defence ministry official said 29 people were wounded in the powerful blasts.
A police colonel said Diwaniyah Go [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - A bomb exploded next to a French embassy car in south Baghdad on Monday wounding seven Iraqis, but four French security personnel inside the armoured vehicle escaped unhurt, the embassy and Iraqi sources said.
The embassy told AFP the bomb exploded as a single armoured car with four French guards on board was passing, but an interior ministry official said th [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - The Iraqi Football Association (IFA) gained a new chief on Saturday, in an election in which the country's football establishment won over a candidate unofficially backed by the government.
Najeh Hmoud's victory over Falah Hassan is expected to end two years of paralysis and problems with world football's governing body, FIFA.
Hmoud, the IFA's deputy chief, [...]
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