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Baghdad, 09 February 2012 -- Iraq deeply mistrusts private security companies and wants to limit their operations here, officials say, while the contractors themselves have faced bureaucratic delays ...
Diyala, 09 February 2012 -- A man was killed and asecond was wounded on Wednesday afternoon in one of the famrs of Abi Sayda town, 35 north east of provincial capital Baaqouba, as an IED placed by ...
Kirkuk, 09 February 2012 -- A lawyer was wounded as an IED placed on a roadside in Kirkuks’s southwestern Zab town struck his car, a police source told AKnews.
Diyala, 09 February 2012 -- Three armed groups involved in organized crime and financed by a local official have been disbanded, Diyala police announced today.
09 February 2012 -- In the West, Afghanistan has garnered far more press than Iraq in recent years. The deployment of additional troops under President Obama, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from ...
Garmiyan, 09 February 2012 -- A car belonging to the Kalar directorate for investigating violence against women was torched last night following a grenade explosion.
Baghdad, 09 February 2012 -- The former governor of Kazimiya Prison for women in Baghdad was assassinated yesterday.
09 February 2012 -- International Police warned, on Wednesday, all member states of Interpol whose number is 181 states of nine" dangerous" prisoners fugitives out of a prison in Dohuk of Iraq.
09 February 2012 -- The Iraqi Interior Ministry, said on Wednesday, it had no information on the smuggling of weapons to Syria through Iraq, while calling those who have information or evidence about ...
09 February 2012 -- Hamid al-Hayis said in an interview with "Shafaq News", " We have information to take actions that a lot of spare arms are crossing for the Syrian people through Anbar," adding ...
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