Iraq passes election law after weeks of debate

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Baghdad: Iraqi officials passed another race law on Monday after weeks of civil argument, preparing for surveys to be held one year from now and mollifying feelings of trepidation that they might be postponed because of weakening security. The parliamentary decision

Shootings, bombings kill 12 in Iraq

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Baghdad: A twofold suicide shelling and different assaults focusing on parts of the security drives and regular folks killed 12 individuals in Iraq on Monday, said authorities. Brutality has spiked in Iraq since April, with the pace of slaughtering arriving

Seven dead in north Iraq violence

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Baghdad: An arrangement of assaults north of Baghdad - incorporating different bombings focusing on police - killed seven individuals on Monday, as Iraq thinks about its most noticeably awful gore since 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has spoke

Six killed in Iraq attacks

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Mosul: Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed five security work force and a regular person on Sunday, authorities said, part of an across the country surge in viciousness that powers have neglected to stem. The shootings and bombings were the most

Obama meets PM Nouri al-Maliki, says al-Qaida now more active in Iraq

Washington: President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday talked about ways they can work together to stop the risk of

Bomb attacks across Iraq kill at least 16

Baghdad: Bombs blasted crosswise over Iraq on Wednesday, killing no less than 16 individuals, police and therapeutic sources said. It was not instantly clear who was behind the

UN says nearly 1,000 Iraqis killed in October

Baghdad: Violence crosswise over Iraq killed about 1,000 individuals in October, the United Nations said

Obama meets Maliki as war still tears Iraq

Washington: President Obama's pleased political gloat is that he finished the Iraq war. In any case on Friday, he will candidly encounter a man who is as of now battling it - Prime Minister

Iraq PM urges global fight on Al-Qaeda

Washington: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday argued for a major universal exertion to battle Al-Qaeda and fear systems, comparing the battle to a third planet war. In Washington

Two killed, 11 injured in Iraq attacks

Baghdad: At minimum two individuals were killed and 11 wounded in differentiate besieging and shooting occurrences in Iraq Tuesday, police said. An Iraqi armed force officer was executed and four troopers were wounded toward the evening when a roadside shell eruption struck their watch in Madain town, in the ballpark of 30 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua refering to a police source. In an alternate episode, an armed force colonel was discriminatingly wounded when a sticky shell connected to his auto exploded while he was driving in Qahira region in northern Baghdad. In northern focal Iraq, shooters shot dead a part of a legislature upheld Sahwa paramilitary bunch while he was driving his auto in Siniyah town, approximately 200 km from Baghdad, a police source said. In the mean time, a roadside shell blasted in a vegetable wholesale showcase in Tuz-Khurmato city, approximately 180 km from Baghdad, wounding six individuals, a police source said.

Bombings, shooting kill 11 in Iraq

October 28: Two bombings and a pitfall of a police checkpoint in Iraq killed 11 individuals in and west of the capital today, said authorities. Police authorities said the deadliest ambush occurred around evening time when a shell blasted inside a bistro full of clients in southwestern Baghdad, killing six and wounding 16. Hours prior, three individuals were killed and five others wounded when a shell went off in a business road in the Abu Ghraib zone to the west of the capital. Additionally, shooters spread a security checkpoint with slugs in the city of Fallujah, a previous al-Qaeda fortress 65 kilometres from Baghdad. Two policemen were slaughtered in the assault, said authorities. Restorative authorities affirmed the loss figures for all ambushes. All authorities spoke on state of obscurity since they were not authorised to converse with media. Savagery has spiked in Iraq, with over 5,000 individuals slaughtered, since a lethal April security crackdown on a Sunni dissent camp in the northern town of Hawijah. Open puts like boutiques, restaurants, mosques and markets have been shelled by guerillas who need to undermine the Shiite headed government in Baghdad. Security compels have likewise been focused on.

Iraq oil exports plunge to 19-month low: ministry

October 27: Iraq's oil sends out hit a 19-month low in September, oil service representative Assem Jihad said today, attributing the decay to upkeep and change ventures at the nation's ports. Iraq sent out 62.1 million barrels of oil in September, or around the range of 2.07 million barrels for every day (bpd), Jihad said - the least everyday normal since February 2012. The nation earned Usd 6.511 from the fares, its most minimal month to month figure in over a year. Offers of unrefined, which represent the largest part of Iraq's government pay, had found the middle value of 2.579 million bpd in August and raised the incomes of USD 8.3 billion. Jihad said the September decay was because of "occasional upkeep exercises for the southern ports and activities" to include new skimming oil space offices and increment the ports' fare limits. Iraq is intensely reliant on oil sends out, and the administration is trying to breathtakingly increase its deals in the advancing years to store the recreation of its battered framework. Authorities are planning to expand handling limit to nine million bpd by 2017, a focus on that the International Monetary Fund and International Energy Agency have cautioned is over-hopeful.

Wave of bomb attacks kill 56 in Iraq

Baghdad, October 27: A new wave of auto shells struck the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and the nation's northern locale Sunday, killing 56 individuals and wounding by most accounts 152, police said. The most noticeably bad roughness in the day began in Baghdad in the morning, when no less than eight auto shells split through business ranges, killing 32 individuals and wounding 94, in seven of Baghdad's Shiite-larger part regions, Xinhua reported, referring to a police source. On one of the strike, an auto shell went off at a prominent showcase in Sabie al-Bour region in the northern part of Baghdad, slaughtering six individuals and wounding 18 others, the source said. An alternate auto shell exploded at a commercial center and an adjacent parking garage in al-Huriyah locale in northeastern Baghdad, executing two individuals and wounding 10 others, the source included. Four individuals were slaughtered and seven wounded when an auto shell blasted at a commercial center in the Mashtal regime in eastern Baghdad, while a fourth auto shell struck a famous advertise at Shaab locale in the northeastern part of the capital, slaughtering four individuals and wounding 17. An auto shell hit Abu Dsheer region in southern Baghdad and slaughtered no less than six individuals and wounded 14 others. An alternate auto shell went off at a lane in Baghdad's southern region of Baiyaa, executing five individuals and wounding 11, the source said. Two more auto shells were exploded in a speedy progression at a packed market in the southeastern suburb of Nahrawan, slaughtering no less than five individuals and wounding 17, he included. Fourteen individuals were slaughtered and 55 wounded when a suicide aerial attacker exploded his touchy laden auto close many troopers and resigned military officers who were assembled to gather their pay rates from a legislature claimed bank in Mosul city, by most accounts 400 km north of Baghdad. "Three fighters and 11 citizens were slaughtered, and the wounded incorporated nine warriors and 46 regular people," a police source said, including that the regular folks were resigned officers, bank representatives and clients. Three fighters were slaughtered and an alternate was wounded in a roadside shell blast close to their watch in al-Rashidiyah region in the northern part of Mosul. Additionally in Mosul, unidentified equipped men shot dead two development laborers in the eastern part of the city. Somewhere else, shooters assaulted a house in a village close Dowr city, in the ballpark of 150 km north of Baghdad, and shot dead a part of an administration upheld Sahwa paramilitary bunch, his offspring and his nephew before they fled the scene. In the same region, an alternate Sahwa bunch part was wounded in a roadside shell assault. The Sahwa local army, otherwise called the Awakening Council or the Sons of Iraq, comprises of equipped gatherings, incorporating some influential hostile to Us Sunni extremist bunches, who turned their rifles against the Al Qaeda organize after Sahwa's guides got frightened by the gathering's fierceness and religious extremism in the nation. Independently, unidentified shooters exploded seven under development houses fitting in with police and armed force officers in Tikrit city, in the range of 170 km north of Baghdad, a police source said. In Iraq's eastern area of Diyala, two ranchers were shot dead by shooters at a village close to the town of Abu Saiyda, in the range of 30 km northeast of the common capital city of Baquba, which is in the vicinity of 65 km northeast of Baghdad. A policeman was wounded in a roadside shell impact close to his watch in the western part of Baquba, a source said. No gathering has so far guaranteed avocation regarding the strike. Iraq is seeing its most noticeably bad ejection of viciousness lately, which raises expects that the nation is sliding over to the full-blown common clash that crested in 2006 and 2007, when month to month demise toll off and on again surpassed 3,000. The Un Assistance Mission for Iraq has said that very nearly 6,000 citizens were executed and over 14,000 others harmed in Iraq from January to September not long from now.

13 killed in Iraq violence

Baghdad: At least 13 people were killed and 24 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq Friday, police said. Two civilians were killed and six others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck a popular market in Yusufiya area, about 20 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Xinhua reported citing a police source. In Anbar province, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint in Rutba, some 370 km west of Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding three others, the source said. In another attack in the province, a policeman was killed and another got seriously injured when unidentified gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Ramadi city, the capital of Anbar province, the source added. Two school guards were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in Heat, 45 km west of Ramadi, police said. During the past few days, Anbar province has witnessed a series of deadly attacks including coordinated suicide bomb attacks which targeted local government buildings and security forces, killing dozens of security forces members. A couple was killed when a roadside bomb targeted their car in Bahrez area, south of Baquba, some 60 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source said. Eight people were injured when five roadside bombs exploded near the homes of a number of policemen in Aslah area, just five km northeast of Baquba, capital of Diyala province, the source added. Another roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol in the Mazrah village south of the city of Baiji, some 200 km north of Baghdad, killing two members of the patrol, the police source said, adding that one civilian was killed and another seriously injured when a roadside bomb struck their car near Dujail area, some 50 km north of Baghdad. Unidentified gunmen killed an employee of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice near his home in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, while five civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in the Dora district in the southern part of the city, the source said. Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 6, 000 Iraqis were killed and over 14,000 others injured from January to September this year.

Iraq violence kills 12

Baghdad, October 25: Ten bombings and a shooting killed at least 12 people and wounded 19 in Iraq today, officials said. Nine bombs exploded in and around the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing a total of seven people and wounding eight, a police officer and a doctor said. Three of the dead and two of the wounded were from the same family, the sources said. The deadliest single attack was in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, where a roadside bomb exploded near a market, killing at least four people and wounding 11, security and medical officials said. And in Baghdad itself, gunmen armed with silenced weapons killed a justice ministry employee in the Amriyah area. Violence in Iraq has reached a level unseen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict. More than 570 people have now been killed this month, and more than 5,250 since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources. A study released this month by academics based in the United States, Canada and Iraq said nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003.

western Iraq: Militants kill 37

Baghdad: A string of attacks across the western province of al-Anbar left 37 people dead, all but three of them members of the security forces, an Iraqi police source said Wednesday. Another 28 people were injured in the assaults, which were blamed on Sunni Muslim militants. Fourteen police officers were found with their throats slit after a patrol was ambushed on a highway west of al-Anbar's capital Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad. Seven people, including four police, were killed when a suicide attacker rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a checkpoint on the main highway leading to Jordan. A car bombing Tuesday night near a police station in Rutba, some 370 km west of the national capital, killed six cops and left 14 people injured. Four other police died in an attack by gunmen just minutes after the blast, while two soldiers were killed by a car bomb in the centre of Rutba. Armed militants killed two members of the security forces and wounded three others in a strike on a checkpoint in Huseiba al-Garbiya. Two cops died when a bomb was detonated as a police convoy passed through the town of Raua, west of Ramadi. Nearly 1,000 people died last month in Iraq as a result of political or sectarian violence, bringing the civilian death toll for the year so far to almost 6,000, according to figures from the UN mission in Baghdad.

39 killed, 51 wounded in Iraq bombings

Baghdad: At least 39 people were killed and 51 wounded in three bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital city Sunday, police said. The deadliest attack occurred when a suicide bomber detonated his vest of explosives in a popular cafe in the Amil area in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least 37 people and wounding 42, reported Xinhua citing a police source. Two people were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb struck a civilian car travelling on the highway near the Amiriyah area in western Baghdad, the police source said. Five people were injured when another roadside bomb exploded in the Ghazaliya area in western Baghdad, he added. The deadly bombing attacks in Baghdad Sunday evening came after at least 12 people were killed and 27 wounded in suicide bomb attacks on a local government compound in Iraq's western province of Anbar at noon. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 6,000 Iraqis were killed and over 14,000 injured from January to September this year.