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Kirkuk, 01 February 2012 -- Kirkuk’s Kurdish security forces, the Asayish, said Tuesday that they had arrested a drug dealer with a about two pounds of narcotics in possession.
Diyala, 01 February 2012 -- Gunmen shot dead a civilian man in Diyala province’sal-Buhruz town, about 50 km north of capital Baghdad.
Nineveh, 01 February 2012 -- Three people were killed in two separate attacks in the volatile Nineveh province, north of capital Baghdad, police said Tuesday.
Nineveh, 01 February 2012 -- Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jubbouri of Nineveh Operations Command told AKnews that at least three people were killed yesterday in the Province.
Garmiyan, 01 February 2012 -- Lt. Ali Haidar of Diyala police told AKnews an explosive laden car driven by a suicide bomber exploded yesterday in Ashbiliya Square, western Baquba. The car exploded ...
Nineveh, 01 February 2012 -- Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jubbouri of Nineveh Operations Command told AKnews that two improvised explosive devices exploded today in Sada Baawiza, north of Mosul.
Erbil, 01 February 2012 -- The Iraqi Interior Ministry has arrested 16 of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's bodyguards, some of whom confessed under interrogation to assassinating military personnel ...
Nineveh, 01 February 2012 -- A policeman has been killed, and another wounded, during shoot out at a checkpoint in the Zanjali district, west of Mosul.
Basra, 01 February 2012 -- Police forces arrested today 20 wanted persons, including 9 on charges of terrorism, police sources said today.
Washington, 31 January 2012 -- President Barack Obama on Monday played down the use of U.S. drones in Iraq, saying the program was very limited and focused mainly on protecting the U.S. embassy in ...
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