U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs. LONDONO / THE WASHINGTON POST BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi...
A US GI was killed on Tuesday in Mosul while answering a distress callAssailants killed Sadrist parliamentarian Salih al-`Ukayli with a roadside bomb near Sadr City in East Baghdad. Al-`Ukayli has been a supporter of civil...
BY Our Special Correspondent LUCKNOW Oct. 9: An 18-year-old girl immolated herself two days ago to escape an alleged molestation bid by a group of youngsters in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. The girl was rushed to the...
Saudi Arabia has had mixed success in its diplomacy, but it has raised its profile and should keep on tryingBY TRADITION, Muslim leaders seal pacts by bowing together in prayer, side by side. And what better place to do this...
Work has begun on a project to establish a sewage network in two Karbala neighborhoods at a total cost of over 3 billion Iraqi dinars, the chairman of the reconstruction committee in Karbala's provincial council said.
Baghdad - An Iraqi lawmaker from the Sadrist bloc died Thursday in Baghdad from wounds sustained in a bomb blast that struck his convoy, a bloc spokesman reported. Lawmaker Saleh al-Eikily initially fell into a coma brought on...
Baghdad -A bomb went off Thursday inside an Iraqi restaurant killing a policeman, a civilian and injuring another three, a police source said. The blast took place in the Tal Afar district of Nineveh province, 405 kilometres...
BAGHDAD, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - The number of confirmed cholera cases has risen to 418 in central and southern Iraq, with six dead since an outbreak began on 20 August, a government spokesman said on 5 October.
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic on the aftermath of the horrific bombings on Thursday at Shiite mosques in Baghdad that left 26 persons dead and dozens wounded.Wa'il Abd al-Latif, an independent member of parliament saw a...
Today is Friday, October 10, the 284th day of 2008. Brazil declares war on Germany in retaliation for the torpedoing of Brazilian ships. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance...