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BBC News
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Mr Blair is due to have talks with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
"He's in Baghdad against a backdrop of the continuing major security opera..
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AOL News
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The U.S. government's office in central Iraq came under mortar fire early Saturday, an attack that touched off a blaze in part of the complex, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties...
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Yahoo News
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A stunning new death count emerged Thursday, as Iraq's health minister estimated 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war — about three times previously accepted estimates...
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BBC News
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A British journalist has been freed by forces in Iraq, local media quoted the Iraqi defence ministry saying.
The journalist, who has not been named, and his Iraqi interpreter, who was previously released, were seized in Basra in February.
Both were..
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CNN
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Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has extended for six months the cease-fire he imposed last summer on his Mehdi Army militia, al-Sadr's office in Baghdad said Friday. The official said a letter was distributed to all al-Sadr offices announcing the exte..
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BBC News
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About 300 Turkish troops have crossed into northern Iraq, Iraqi officials have said.
The lightly-armed soldiers entered Iraq overnight and moved up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) inside, an Iraqi Kurdish spokesman said.
Turkish President Abdullah G..
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SF Gate
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Nearly 500 Iraqi detainees were released at a ceremony at a sprawling U.S. detention center in western Baghdad early Thursday, where they were urged by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to "start a new life, a different life from months ago."
The ceremony..
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BBC News
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Five Iraqi MPs have announced a boycott of cabinet meetings, deepening the political crisis and leaving the unity government without any Sunni members.
The ministers, who are loyal to former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, blamed what they said was the Shi..
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SF Gate
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused Sunday to accept the resignations of six Cabinet members, keeping open the door for a possible return of Sunni ministers whose departure last week caused a crisis in his unity government.
Members of the Sunni bloc..
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FOX News
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This is a partial transcript of an exclusive interview Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki gave to FOX News' David MacDougall on the White House interim report on Iraq:
David MacDougall: This week we had the interim report for the White House, how do..
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Alter Net
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The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.
As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversi..
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BBC News
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The Iraqi government has approved an amended draft law on how to share the country's oil wealth, officials say.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said parliament would begin debating the bill on Wednesday.
There are no details about changes to the..
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Al Jazeera
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The hugely expensive and complicated US mission to train Iraqi forces has had "mixed results," the report said, with the new Iraqi police forces having proved particularly problematic.
"The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have not yet developed as fast as..
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BBC News
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Two dozen boys have been found starved and neglected at a government-run orphanage for special needs children in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The children were discovered last week by a US military advisory team that was out on patrol with Iraqi soldier..
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FOX News
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Iraq's prime minister and two top American officials flew to the blistering western desert Saturday in a rare joint outing to highlight gains there in the fight against insurgents, hours before the military reported the deaths of eight U.S. troops.
One..
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for meetings with Iraqi government officials, an official in the Iraqi prime minister's office told CNN.
The agenda on what will likely be Blair's final Iraq visit as prime minister inclu..
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BBC News
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The UN has sharply criticised Iraq's human rights record, in the two months since a new security plan was launched in and around the capital, Baghdad.
The UN mission for Iraq said Iraqi authorities had failed to guarantee the basic rights of about 3,00..
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Reuters
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The Iraqi government launched an inquiry on Monday into how guards filmed and taunted Saddam Hussein on the gallows, turning his execution into a televised spectacle that has inflamed sectarian anger...
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CNN
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was pushing for a shake-up in his government on Sunday as Baghdad suffered through another day of carnage that left dozens dead...
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BBC News
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Iraq's prime minister has said he hopes Saddam Hussein gets "what he deserves" for "crimes against the Iraqi people", ahead of Sunday's expected verdict...
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