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Attacks in Iraq kill 9, wound 33
A series of attacks including a blast near an Internet cafe in a Sunni area of Baghdad killed nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday in and around ...
Israeli raids in Syria highlight Arab conundrum
Five weeks ago, the head of the Arab League capped a summit in Qatar with an impassioned appeal to strengthen the rebel fighters trying to bring down ...
Iraq PM's group wins largest bloc in several areas
A coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has won the largest single bloc of seats in seven of 12 provinces participating in local elections, and tied ...
Readying new Syria push, US feels out Russia again
The Obama administration is trying to leverage new evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons, and make a fresh ...
Rights group: Iraqi panel needs help probing raid
Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Iraqi authorities to give more financial and political backing to a government panel probing a deadly raid by ...
Obama doesn't foresee US ground troops in Syria
President Barack Obama said Friday he doesn't foresee any circumstance requiring the U.S. to send ground troops into Syria, even as Washington pursues ...
Bomb explosion at Iraq mosque kills 7
A bomb attack outside a Sunni mosque on Friday killed seven worshippers as Sunnis continued to hold demonstrations in Iraq to protest what they say ...
UN: April deadliest month in Iraq since June 2008
The United Nations mission to Iraq says more people were killed in violent attacks across the country in April than in any other month since June 2008
AP Interview: Sunni Iraq official criticizes force
The Sunni head of a committee established to investigate deadly clashes that erupted at a protest camp in Iraq last week said Wednesday that he ...
Iraq, Shell officially kick off major gas project
Royal Dutch Shell says it has officially kicked off a multibillion-dollar project to tap natural gas in Iraq's south. The $17 billion joint venture ...
Iraq instability tested further with bombing wave
A wave of car bomb blasts tore through Shiite areas south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 and deepening fears that Iraq is rapidly spiraling ...
Iraq suspends Al-Jazeera and 9 Iraqi TV channels
Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of ...
Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks
Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad, the latest in a wave of violence that has ...
Group tied to old guard could gain in Iraq unrest
As clashes this week raise fears of a destabilizing new eruption of sectarian fighting in Iraq, a shadowy militant group linked to the top fugitive ...
Syrian rebels call on world to put words to action
Syrian opposition groups called Friday for international action after the Obama administration said U.S. intelligence indicates President Bashar ...
Red line: Obama cautious on Syria chemical weapons
Proceeding cautiously, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would change his "calculus" about U.S.
Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town
Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence ...
Syrian officials deny use of chemical weapons
Two Syrian officials denied Friday that government forces had used chemical weapons against rebels, the first response from President Bashar Assad's ...
Draining cash, Egypt on $30 billion search for aid
During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt's president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for ...
Iraq fears rise as clashes spread to northern city
Clashes spread to a key northern city and gunmen took over a town elsewhere in Iraq on Thursday, raising the death toll from three days of violence ...
Kurdish rebels to retreat from Turkey to Iraq
Kurdish rebels will start withdrawing thousands of guerrilla fighters from Turkey on May 8 and retreat across the border to northern Iraq, a rebel ...
Obama and Bush, partisans who share common ground
Despite vast differences with President George W. Bush on ideology, style and temperament, President Barack Obama has stuck with Bush policies or ...
Clashes suggest Sunni anger boiling over in Iraq
With Sunni gunmen beginning to confront the Shiite-led government's security forces head-on in northern and western Iraq, fears are growing fast of ...
Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show
Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history ...
Dutch court: compensation for gas attack survivors
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered a businessman convicted of selling Saddam Hussein raw materials for mustard gas to pay compensation to victims of ...