Iraq
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Spike in violence in Iraq
CommentShaffer interview May 21, 2013
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Iraq bombings: Car bombs kill at least 40 in Baghdad, Basra
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A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 40 people on Monday, striking at market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning hours, officials said.
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Iraq fighting grows, raising fear of spreading unrest
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Gunmen have taken over a Sunni town north of Baghdad after a firefight with security forces, Iraqi authorities said Thursday.
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Iraq clashes leave at least 14 dead
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Clashes erupted early on Tuesday between Sunni demonstrators and security forces in a northern Sunni town in Iraq, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens in an escalation likely to enrage anti-government protesters who have been rallying for months.
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Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
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Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency.
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Iraq: Al-Qaida member shot, killed by gunmen in Iraq
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Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead a member of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni militia along with his mother.
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Iraq suicide bomb kills seven policemen
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A suicide bomber drove a fuel-laden truck into a police station in central Iraq on Monday, killing seven policemen, officials said.
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Bombings in Iraq kill 65 a decade after invasion
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The symbolism of Tuesday's attacks was strong, coming 10 years to the day, Washington time, that President George W. Bush announced the start of hostilities against Iraq. It was already early March 20, 2003, in Iraq when the airstrikes began.
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Iraq war anniversay: 10 years passed since invasion of Iraq
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Pockmarked buildings and pervasive checkpoints serve as a stark reminder of the violence that nearly tore the country in the decade following the U.S.-led invasion, which began on March 20, 2003.
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Iraq bombings: At least 56 killed in wave of bombings in Baghdad
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A wave of bombings tore through Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 56 people and wounding more than 200, highlighting increasing sectarian tensions in Iraq on the eve of the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
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What's next for Iraq?
CommentMacgregor interview March 5, 2013
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Iraq reconstruction: U.S. spent too much money, too few results, inspector says
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Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.
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Iraq car bombs kill at least 31 people
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Four car bombs struck two outdoor markets in predominantly Shiite areas of Iraq on Friday, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens.
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Iraq suicide bombing kills at least four people
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Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has rammed his explosives-laden car into an army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least four people - two soldiers and two civilians.
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Brendan Marrocco: 'I'm me again'
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Brendan Marrocco had the operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The 26-year-old Marrocco, who is from New York City, was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009.
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Iraq car bombs kill at least 15 people
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Iraqi officials say a string of car bomb attacks in and around Baghdad has killed 15 people and wounded dozens.
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Iraq car bomb kills 7, wounds 17 near Baghdad
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Attacks on a bus stop and a convoy carrying the head of a university on Thursday in Iraq killed seven people and wounded 17 others, authorities said.
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies
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A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died.
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