http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/21 The latest news about Defence & Security in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator The top US military officer held out the possibility of a draw-down of American forces from Afghanistan within a few years, citing the troop "surge" in Iraq as a model. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61747/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:00 +0000 Baghdad’s municipality on Thursday said it has launched a campaign to remove concrete barriers in Baghdad’s al-Karada area, according to an official statement. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61745/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:04:00 +0000 Tight security measures have been put in place in the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Arbil, which hosts the Youth Asia Cup from Nov. 5-15. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61736/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:00 +0000 A civilian man was killed and two others wounded when two synchronized blasts went off near a mosque in central al-Ramadi city on Thursday, a police source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61726/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:21:00 +0000 Security forces detained seven suspects in the province of Diala on Thursday, a local security source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61725/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:20:00 +0000 The wounded from an earlier blast that occurred in al-Hilla city on Thursday rose to 16 as highly explosive material was found in the scene, a source from Babel police said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61724/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:19:00 +0000 Fourteen people were wounded in an unidentified blast in central al-Hilla city on Thursday, according to a security source. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61723/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:18:00 +0000 A security force killed the chief of a gang of kidnappers, arrested three of its members and freed two students taken hostage in a security operation north of Kirkuk city. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61722/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:17:00 +0000 Policemen captured two gunmen while attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device (IED) off the house of an official in the city of al-Falluja on Thursday, a local security source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61721/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:15:00 +0000 One officer was killed and two policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in western Mosul, a security source said Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61720/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:14:00 +0000 A powerful explosion rattled northern Nassiriya city, while American choppers were seen hovering over the scene, eyewitnesses said on Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61719/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:13:00 +0000 A bomb went off targeting a policeman’s house in southern Kirkuk city without causing any casualties, a local security source said on Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61718/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:13:00 +0000 Two children were freed in the city of Kirkuk years after being kidnapped, the deputy chief of al-Muqdad police said on Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61717/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:12:00 +0000 A senior police officer survived an attempt on his life on Thursday in southern Kirkuk, a source from the joint coordination center in Kirkuk said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61716/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:11:00 +0000 Directorate of criminal investigation in Mosul was able on Wednesday to arrest a gang was traded with human organs in Mosul. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61702/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:47:00 +0000 A security source in Nineveh said" Unidentified insurgents blow spirits shop in Mosul And police there found two unknown bodies west Mosul. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61700/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:46:00 +0000 A joint Iraqi force has arrested three wanted persons in a village in southern Kirkuk province, a local security source said on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61669/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:03:00 +0000 Many of those involved in last Sunday’s bombings that targeted governmental institutions in Baghdad were arrested, Ali al-Allaq, the secretary general of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, said on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61668/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:03:00 +0000 Two unidentified bodies on Wednesday were found in western Mosul, a local police source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61667/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:02:00 +0000 Police forces on Wednesday arrested a drug smuggler south of Basra city with drugs on him. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61666/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:01:00 +0000 Police forces on Wednesday arrested a gang trading in human body parts in central Mosul city, according to a source from Ninewa police. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61665/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:01:00 +0000 The media adviser of the U.S. forces in Iraq said on Wednesday that a combined Iraqi-U.S. force killed a suspect during a raid operation north of Mosul city, because he behaved in an “aggressive” way, and “did not obey the force’s orders.” http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61664/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:01:00 +0000 One police officer and his wife were killed when unknown gunmen blew up their house in Abu Ghraib district, a local police source said on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61663/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000 A U.S. force killed on Wednesday a civilian and arrested his son and two of his brothers in northwest of Mosul, a security source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61662/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000 Security forces seized an ammunition cache hidden underground in an area western Kut city, a security source from the Wassit province said on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61661/refid/RSS-security-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:59:00 +0000