A protest over electricity shortages in the mainly Shiite southern Iraq turned violent Saturday with troops fatally shooting one demonstrator, police officials said, underscoring rising tension over the country's lack of basic services.
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Talabani is the founder and secretary general of one of the main Iraqi Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow (...)
A Kurdish journalist gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk was the 136th reporter killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq five years ago, a New York-based journalists' group said Saturday.
Col. Taha Al-Din of Kirkuk police said Diyar (...)
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday allowed Iraq to send a two-athlete team to next month's Beijing Games in a last-minute deal ending a dispute with the Iraqi government, the IOC said.
Iraq was banned last week after the government (...)
More foreign fighters, including Al-Qaeda militants, are operating in Pakistan's tribal areas than in the past, underscoring the need for Pakistan to crack down on insurgent safe havens, the top US military officer said during a visit here.
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