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Iraq

An al Qaeda suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into a police station in Tikrit, killing nine Iraqis. Two policemen and a civilian were gunned down in Baghdad.


Iraq

Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters gunned down the deputy director of the counterterrorism agency in Tikrit. Police dismantled two car bombs in Mosul. China will soon be drilling one-third of Iraq’s oil.


Iraq

Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 23 people in a string of five bombings at Shia mosques in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Police arrested four “gunmen” south of Kirkuk.


Iran

Ten years after Iraq war began, Iran reaps the gains



Iraq

Insurgents killed five people in attacks in Iraq. In one attack, in Tuz Khormato, the head of a local council and a council member were killed. Two policemen and a civilian were killed in attacks in Baghdad.


Iraq

Insurgents killed five soldiers in two separate attacks in Mosul and a politician in Baghdad. US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Iraq of aiding the Syrian government by permitting weapons to pass through its border.


Iraq

A decade after Iraq invasion, America’s voice in Baghdad has gone from a boom to a whimper


Iraq

Security forces captured al Qaeda’s mufti, or religious emir, for Babil province and 19 “wanted gunmen” in Baghdad. Al Qaeda killed two people in attacks that targeted the Awakening in Abu Ghraib.


Iraq

A politician was gunned down outside of his home in Fallujah. Police arrested nine “wanted men” in Maysan. Soldiers captured two men as they were rigging car bombs in Baghdad.



Iraq

Sectarian Strains Pit Some Iraqis Against Their Own Leaders


Iraq

At least 59 Iraqis were killed in a series of more than 20 attacks in Baghdad, Anbar, Babil, and Ninewa provinces. Attacks included suicide bombers, car bombs, IEDs, and armed assaults. The attacks were likely carried out by al Qaeda.


Iraq

Insurgents killed nine Iraqis in a car bombing in Basra. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed last week’s suicide assault on the Justice Ministry.




CIA

CIA begins sizing up Islamic extremists in Syria for drone strikes



Iraq

An al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team killed seven policemen and 15 civilians in an attack on the Justice and Interior Ministries in Baghdad. Forty-one Iraqi tribes denounced al Qaeda’s attempts to hijack peaceful demonstrations.



Iraq

Insurgents killed a politician at a mosque and a child at an election center in Mosul. Protesters in Ramadi captured a wanted al Qaeda fighter. The provincial council in Anbar postponed elections due to security concerns.


Iraq

The New Muqtada al-Sadr Seeks Moderate Image in Iraq


Iraq

Iraq’s New Sunni Awakening



Iraq

Insurgents killed seven Iraqis in attacks throughout Iraq; one of the attacks was carried out by a suicide bomber in Dibis. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed credit for the March 4 ambush that killed 48 Syrian and 9 Iraqi soldiers.




Iraq

Two al Qaeda fighters and an Iraqi soldier were killed in a clash in Ramadi; another al Qaeda fighter was detained. Security forces captured five al Qaeda fighters near Mosul. The Agriculture Minister resigned after a protester was killed in Ninewa.


Why couldn’t the US prosecute Musa Ali Daqduq?

If the Obama administration is able to transfer al Qaeda propagandist Suleiman Abu Ghaith and prosecute him in federal court, why couldn’t it do the same for Musa Ali Daqduq, the Hezbollah commander who was in US custody?


Iraq

The Sunni rise again: Uprising in Syria emboldens Iraq’s minority community