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Washington, 02 February 2012 -- The United States should deploy ships, step up covert activities and sharpen its rhetoric to make more credible the threat of a U.S. military strike to stop Iran's nuclear ...
Baghdad, 02 February 2012 -- Iraq executed 17 convicted criminals in one day this week, the justice ministry said on Wednesday, bringing to at least 51 the number so far this year.
Diyala, 02 February 2012 -- A media campaign has been launched to identify more than 2,000 people lost to terrorism or execution by the former regime.
Baghdad, 02 February 2012 -- Iraq's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied a news report that Iraqi authorities have issued execution orders against three Saudis, close to the Saudi Kingdom's family, ...
Baghdad, 02 February 2012 -- Premier Nouri al-Maliki called for further coordination between the local governments and security forces to eradicate "terrorist" operations, according to a Presidency ...
Ninewa, 02 February 2012 -- Ninewa Operations Command announced today that the security forces arrested minister of information in the so-called Iraqi Islamic State, east of Mosul.
01 February 2012 -- Security forces have detained 16 of Tareq al-Hashemi's bodyguards, Iraq's interior ministry said, in a move the fugitive vice president said Tuesday was nothing new in a series ...
01 February 2012 -- A 30-year-old Palestinian man died in Iraq three days ago as a result of torture and severe beating in an Iraqi jail, his family in Breij refugee camp to the east of Gaza said on ...
01 February 2012 -- Heightened government spending since the start of the Bush administration has been a boom for defense contractors as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have fueled the need for weaponry ...
Kirkuk, 01 February 2012 -- The Iraqi government has decided to recruit more 1,500 police officers for Kirkuk governorate to control an ongoing insurgency in the governorate that has seen almost ...
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