Tag: Iraq

Attacks around Iraq’s capital kill 24 people

Attacks around Iraq’s capital kill 24 people

Sinan Salaheddin · May 15, 2014 5:36 pm

Officials say attacks kill 13 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 14, 2014 12:27 pm

Father of slain US soldier seeks Iraqi justice

National Security

Father of slain US soldier seeks Iraqi justice

Washington Examiner · May 13, 2014 9:20 pm

An Iraqi policeman rushes to the site moments after one in a series of bombs hit the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. A wave of car bombings in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad killed tens on Tuesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Car bomb blasts kill 34 as Iraqis await vote count

Sameer Yacoub · May 13, 2014 6:45 pm

Family members of Ali Jamal, 23, who was killed in a bomb attack, load his flag-draped coffin onto a vehicle before burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2014. Bombings and shootings killed several people in areas south of the Iraqi capital on Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Bombings and shootings kill 14 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 12, 2014 8:21 pm

Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Sameer Yacoub · May 10, 2014 11:00 am

Iraqi security forces stand guard outside a vote counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Attacks in Iraq, including cafe bombing, kill 15

Sameer Yacoub · May 8, 2014 8:00 pm

In Iraq and Afghanistan, companies manage taxpayer money with little oversight

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In Iraq and Afghanistan, companies manage taxpayer money with little oversight

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. announces an amendment to extend the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, Thursday, March 27, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

In North Carolina, an incumbent faces Sarah Palin’s man from K Street

Timothy P. Carney · May 3, 2014 4:00 am

Electoral workers carry ballot boxes at a counting center in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Iraq: Al-Maliki calls vote ‘slap’ to terrorism

Qassim AbdulZahra · May 1, 2014 5:41 pm

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife. (AP Photo)

Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops

HAMZA HENDAWISINAN SALAHEDDIN · April 30, 2014 9:47 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken on April 27, 2014 a man passes by a campaign poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. If Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wins a third four-year term in parliamentary elections Wednesday, he is likely to rely on a narrow sectarian Shiite base, only fueling divisions as Iraq slides deeper into bloody Shiite-Sunni hatreds. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraq’s al-Maliki facing discontent in election

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · April 29, 2014 6:52 pm