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12 March 2010 -- U.S. occupation troops are reported to have killed a driver and a girl as their armored vehicles rumbled through Baghdad’s neighborhood of Iskan.
New York, 12 March 2010 -- Television journalists might have brought the Vietnam War into our living rooms, but it's the soldiers who are providing the same service these days.
Kirkuk, 12 March 2010 -- Iraqi, Peshmerga, and U.S. forces worked as one team during Iraq’s parliamentary election on March 7, 2010.
Basra, 12 March 2010 -- Policemen arrested seven wanted men and seized ammunitions during crackdown operations in separate areas of Basra, a police source said on Thursday.
Kirkuk, 12 March 2010 -- Security forces arrested on Thursday a wanted man of Ansar al-Sunna armed group in southwest of Kirkuk, a senior police officer said.
MUTHANNA, 12 March 2010 -- A policeman killed one person and injured three more before shooting himself in central Samawa city, eyewitnesses said on Thursday.
Kirkuk, 12 March 2010 -- Security forces have found an ammunition depot belonging to the former army south of Kirkuk, a local source said on Thursday.
12 March 2010 -- The Interior Ministry announced that Iraqi security forces managed to find a large pile of weapons in Salahuddin governorate, also arrested two wanted men in Diyala governorate.
Mosul, 12 March 2010 -- Security source from Ninewa governorate mentioned that a detachment of the Iraqi army seized a car bomb in the Karama area east of Mosul, killing its driver tried to flee after ...
12 March 2010 -- Eyewitness on the evening of the day before yesterday, there was a battle between fishermen in the Haddam river in the Maimona city of Maysan governorate because of fishing. The fishermen ...
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