The last convoy of the US troops left Iraq Sunday, marking an end to nearly nine years of their presence in the country, DPA reported.
The convoy included about 110 armored vehicles and 500 soldiers.
They left early Sunday from the Contingency (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki left here today for Washington at the head of an official delegation on a four-day visit to the United States.
During the visit, a statement issued by Al-Maliki's office said he will hold talks with U.S. (...)
The head of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi, was to arrive in Baghdad on Thursday for talks with senior Iraqi officials on the neighbouring Syria, dpa quoted local media as saying.
"This visit is very important because Iraq is one of the (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malaki met here today with the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al-Rumaithi.
During the meeting, they discussed aspects of military cooperation (...)
At least 10,500 US soldiers in Iraq are preparing to leave by the end of this month, the spokesman for the Iraqi
Defence Ministry Mohammed Al-Askari said on Sunday.
"The withdrawal is going ahead as scheduled under supervision of joint commissions (...)
The explosion of two bombs in western Baghdad this morning killed and wounded 14 people.
According to a security source who asked not to be named, "two bombs exploded simultaneously during the passage of a workers' small bus along one of the (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- At least 12 people were killed Thursday in three back-to-back bombings in the Iraqi city of Basra, security sources said according to dpa.
More than 40 people were injured in the blasts that occurred in (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA - Four civilians were killed Sunday when unknown gunmen attacked a residential area in the city of Al-Hilah, some 100 kilometres south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security sources said.
Three women and one man (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - One militant was killed and another one injured in a clash with a military force in western Baghdad on Monday morning.
An Iraq police source also said that one civilian was injured by an explosive device in (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - The United States Military announced here on Monday that it has withdrawn 1,500 soldiers from South of Iraq in preparation to hand over a military air base to the Iraqi authorities by the end of November.
The (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA - Police say the governor of an Iraqi province has escaped an assassination attempt on a highway, west of Baghdad.
Iraqi police say the governor of Anbar province, Qasim al-Fahadawi, escaped unhurt Monday morning (...)
AlHijjah 2, 1432, Oct 29, 2011, SPA - An Iraqi Police Source disclosed that a civilian was killed when a bomb planted in a car he was driving exploded today in southern Baghdad.
The source, who asked not to be identified, said the planted bomb (...)
AlHijjah 2, 1432, Oct 29, 2011, SPA -- At least five people were killed in separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, according to police sources.
According to dpa, two jewelers were killed and their shops robbed in the southern Iraqi Kut city, the (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA - Iraqi officials say two separate attacks against traffic policemen have left five people dead in Baghdad.
Police said gunmen in a speeding car attacked a traffic police checkpoint in the center of the Iraqi (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1432, Oct 23, 2011, SPA - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
Saturday described the withdrawal of US troops as a "historic occasion for the Iraqi people."
He said the Iraqi armed forces are capable of defending the country against any (...)
AlQa'dah 14, 1432, Oct 12, 2011, SPA - At least 11 people were killed Wednesday in a wave of apparently coordinated car bombings in different parts of the Iraqi capital, according to security officials.
Around 48 people were injured in the four (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1432, Oct 11, 2011, SPA - Five Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in two explosions in northern Baghdad late Monday night, the Iraqi police said Tuesday.
Two explosive devices went off as a security patrol was going (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1432, Oct 10, 2011, SPA - Three civilians were wounded this morning in an explosion of a roadside bomb in the southeast of Baghdad city, it was announced in the Iraqi capital.
A security source, who asked not to be identified, said (...)
AlQa'dah 5, 1432, Oct 3, 2011, SPA - Gunmen disguised as police officers seized control of a police station in western Iraq Monday morning, killing at least three people and taking dozens more hostages before Iraqi forces swept in and ended the (...)
Four explosions on Sunday rocked the Iraqi city of Karbala, around 118 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad, leaving an unspecified number of casualties, police sources said.
The back-to-back explosions occurred outside a governmental
building (...)
Seven people were killed Friday in different Iraqi provinces.
Four civilians were killed and 15 injured in five consecutive blasts in west Baghdad, a police source reported.
The explosive charges went off near houses in the west Baghdad districts (...)
Four people were killed and 17 injured Thursday
when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi province of Babil, some 100 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad, dpa quoted police sources as saying.
The dead included a woman, a child and two policemen, (...)
Two people were killed and 15 injured Tuesday in a car bomb blast outside a compound of government building west of Baghdad, a local official said.
The car bomb, which went off in Anbar city, was followed by two suicide bombing attempts, Mohamed (...)
Police say an early morning fire at a prison in Iraq's capital has killed six inmates.
Two police officers say at least 26 other inmates have been treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries from Monday's blaze.
It took firefighters about an (...)
At least 15 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 20 injured in a bomb blast some 120 kilometres west of the capital Baghdad on Wednesday, according to an Iraqi security source.
The bomb, which had been planted in a vehicle at a military airport in the (...)
