King Salman and Crown Prince offer condolences to Azerbaijan president over plane crash    Shihana to continue serve as chief of reconstituted board of Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property    Ministry of Interior: Over 28 million digital identities issued via Absher    176 teams carry out 1.4 million volunteer hours at Prophet's Mosque in 2024    RCU launches women's football development project    RDIA launches 2025 Research Grants on National Priorities    Damac appoints Portuguese coach Nuno Almeida    GASTAT: Protected land areas grow 7.1% in 2023, making up 18.1% of Kingdom's total land area    Kuwait and Oman secure dramatic wins in Khaleeji Zain 26 Group A action    South Korea becomes 'super-aged' society, new data shows    Trump criticizes Biden for commuting death sentences    Russian ballistic missile attack hits Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve    Financial gain: Saudi Arabia's banking transformation is delivering a wealth of benefits, to the Kingdom and beyond    Four given jail terms for Amsterdam violence against football fans    Blake Lively's claims put spotlight on 'hostile' Hollywood tactics    Five things everyone should know about smoking    Saudi Arabia starts Gulf Cup 26 campaign with a disappointing loss to Bahrain    Gulf Cup: Hervé Renard calls for Saudi players to show pride    Do cigarettes belong in a museum    Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oscars buzz for playing 'difficult' woman    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author SULAIMANIYAH
Bombing In Iraq Kills 7 Police Recruits
A car bomb struck a group of police recruits waiting to apply for jobs in a northern Iraqi city on Sunday, killing seven and wounding 17, a senior police commander said. The recruits had gathered in a parking lot outside a military base about 10 (...)

09 - 09 - 2012
Bombs Destroy Police Station in Iraq, 1 Dead
Iraqi officials say a pair of bombs at a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have killed at least one person and wounded five others. The Thursday morning explosions targeted the main police station in central Kirkuk, which (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Bombs Kill 17 at Police Station in Iraq (New Toll)
Twin bombs that appeared timed to lure policemen outside their fortified headquarters killed 17 people Thursday, most of them police officers, in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk police Capt. Abdul Salam Zangana said 53 people were also (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Gunmen Attack Home in North Iraq, Kill 3 Women
Awwal 15, 1432, April 19, 2011, SPA -- Gunmen stormed a house in a northern city in Iraq, killing three women who lived there, police said Tuesday. Police Col. Sherzad Mofaly said it's not clear why the women were targeted in the attack late Monday (...)

19 - 04 - 2011
Western businessmen killed in Iraq plane crash
Awwal 02, 1432 H/Feb 05, 2011, SPA -- Iraq's mobile phone company AsiaCell said that an American, a British and a Spanish businessman were among the seven people killed in a plane crash in the country's north. A company statement on Saturday added (...)

05 - 02 - 2011
Foreigners among 30 killed in Iraq hotel blaze
Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said Friday. Citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada and several Asian and (...)

17 - 07 - 2010
Iraq's Kurds protest kidnap-slaying of journalist
Hundreds of students have demonstrated in Iraq's northern Kurdish region over the kidnap and murder of a Kurdish journalist, blaming the local government for his death, AP reported. Opposition politicians joined the students at Sulaimaniyah (...)

08 - 05 - 2010
Iran state TV confirms arrest of 3 Americans
Iranian state TV confirmed Saturday that Tehran has detained three Americans after they crossed the border from northern Iraq, AP reported. The Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington, Qubad Talabani, told The Associated Press the (...)

01 - 08 - 2009
Voter turnout is 78 percent in Kurdish election
Iraq's election commission says 78 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in elections in the self-ruled Kurdish north. Independent High Electoral Commission member Hamdiyah al-Husseini told a news conference late Saturday in the Kurdish city of (...)

26 - 07 - 2009
Iraq's Kurds go to polls
Soldiers and the sick cast early votes Thursday ahead of weekend elections that will determine the leadership of Iraq's Kurdish region, which is locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with the central government over oil-rich land. A coalition of (...)

24 - 07 - 2009
Kurds: Iran shells Kurdish rebel sites in Iraq
Kurdish officials say Iranian helicopters have fired on Iranian Kurdish rebel positions in a remote border area of northern Iraq, AP reported. Tehran's military has often fired artillery strikes against the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, (...)

02 - 05 - 2009
‘Talabani had heart surgery'
Two Iraqi Kurdish politicians say Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery in a US hospital. The two senior officials from Talabani's party say the eight-hour surgery took place at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on (...)

15 - 08 - 2008
U.S. troops detain 3 Iranians in northern Iraq hotel
U.S. troops on Thursday raided a hotel in a northern Iraq town and detained three Iranians, two of them said to be government officials from the neighboring country's border area, a Kurdish official in Iraq said. The morning raid by American (...)

20 - 09 - 2007
Iraqi Kurdish parliament discusses tensions with Turkey
Iraq's Kurds are ready for talks with Turkey but will not accept any Turkish military interference in Iraq, the prime minister of the Kurdish regional government said Saturday. Nechervan Barzani spoke after the Kurdish parliament held a meeting (...)

14 - 04 - 2007
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