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Washington, 31 January 2012 -- The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to ...
Washington, 31 January 2012 -- Iraqi officials have expressed outrage at the United States' use of a small fleet of surveillance drones to help protect the US embassy, consulates and American personnel ...
Basra, 31 January 2012 -- A police officer and a militant were killed last night in Basra city, 550 km south of Baghdad, after police forces raided a school where the militants was hiding. A second ...
Salahaddin, 31 January 2012 -- A high-ranking Iraqi Amy officer was killed on Monday and two of his guards were injured as a bomb attached to a military vehicle went off in Tikrit city, the provincial ...
Baghdad, 31 January 2012 -- Iraqi prisons throw inmates together in cramped confines allowing terrorists to plan their attacks says the Security and Defense Commission of the Council of Representatives. ...
Diyala, 31 January 2012 -- Two separate incidents on Monday in the volatile Diyala Province, 60 km east of Baghdad, left five people injured, police said.
Erbil, 31 January 2012 -- Seven Kurdistan Workers' Party rebels have, allegedly, turned themselves in to the Turkish security forces in Sirnak province, south east of Turkey.
Anbar, 31 January 2012 -- Anbar police forces organized a search campaign following the arrest of a suicidal terrorist on a motorcycle in Hadeetha area.
Basra, 31 January 2012 -- An Iraqi police officer has been killed and another injured in a confrontation on Monday with a prisoner, who had escaped from Basra's Presidential Palace's Prison 4 months ...
Baghdad, 31 January 2012 -- The Legislature of the so-called "White Bloc," Alia Nuseif, has highly assessed the ratification by Iraq's Vice-President of the execution decisions against persons, condemned ...
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