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USA Today, 07.01.09 05:02 UTC

Iraqis learn the art of campaigning

TIKRIT, Iraq — More than three weeks before Iraqis will go to the polls to elect their version of state legislatures, the campaigning here seems a bit like what Americans see every four years before New Hampshire's presidential primary: up-close exchanges between candidates and citizens, get-out-the vote efforts, posters everywhere.

CNN World News, 04.01.09 03:01 UTC

Rigged car explodes, killing Iraqi brothers

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A bomb attached to a civilian car exploded Saturday in northern Iraq, killing two people who were inside, an Interior Ministry official said.

NPR, 01.01.09 23:02 UTC

U.S. Hands Control Of Green Zone To Iraqi Forces

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro All Things Considered, January 1, 2009 ยท Iraqi leaders celebrated Thursday as the new security agreement with the U.S. went into effect. Now, American forces are operating ...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29.12.08 16:31 UTC

Iraq bomber targets pro-Gaza rally

BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City yesterday while an Iraqi died when a bicycle-riding suicide bomber blew himself up amid a mass rally against ...

BBC World News, 28.12.08 18:14 UTC

Arabs rally against Israeli raids

Thousands of people have rallied in cities in the Arab world to condemn Israel's air raids on Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

Houston Chronicle - World, 26.12.08 07:03 UTC

Just another day on the front in Iraq

BAGHDAD Army Sgt. Robin Cameron stood guard outside a once opulent Iraqi shopping mall that now serves as a small U.S. military outpost, trying not to think about what he was missing with his family ...

WashingtonPost World, 26.12.08 04:31 UTC

Iraqi Prime Minister Cancels Iran Trip; Attack in Mosul Kills U.S. Soldier

BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki canceled an official trip to Iran, officials said Thursday, drawing surprise from colleagues in his government. Maliki's office said the trip ...

USA Today, 26.12.08 02:04 UTC

Troops in Iraq mark time, holiday

COMBAT OUTPOST VIKING, Iraq — For the U.S. troops living behind sandbagged windows and in plywood shacks in this speck of desert near Fallujah, this Christmas may be a little too peaceful.

CNN World News, 24.12.08 18:04 UTC

Iraq Christians face 'bleak future'

(CNN) -- It's a bittersweet Christmas season for Joseph Kassab, who grew up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime and now lives in Detroit, Michigan. Tempering the season's joy is his concern for fellow Iraqi Christians, who have endured killings, displacement and daily intimidation.