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Bombs kill 56 in Baghdad decade after U.S. invasion
A wave of bombings tore through Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 56 people in a spasm of violence on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. The attacks show how dangerous and unstable Iraq remains a decade after the war...
Tags: Bombings, Transportation Accidents, Armed Conflicts, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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U.S. official: Iraq continues to allow Iranian overflights to Syria
BAGHDAD -- Despite regular U.S. objections, Iraq continues to allow Iranian flights to Syria to use its airspace and has not searched an Iranian plane since October, an American official says. “We object very strongly to the overflights, which...
Tags: Iran, Weaponry, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Nouri Maliki, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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2 car bombs kill 9 in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs went off Sunday in the Iraqi city of Basra, killing nine and wounding 24 in a rare attack in the Shiite-dominated south of the country. All nine deaths resulted from a blast near an outdoor market, said Ali Ghanim,...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Basra (Iraq), Bombings, Iraq, Explosions
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At Lookingglass, a tiger tale set in Iraq
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost? That might sound like a bizarre question, but it comes to mind presently at the Lookingglass Theatre. The titular big cat in Rajiv Joseph's distinctive drama “...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Robin Williams, Iraq, Water Tower, Water Supply
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Baghdad bombings reflect sectarian tensions
BAGHDAD — A string of bombings in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods in eastern Baghdad left as many as two dozen people dead and reflected Iraq’s heightened sectarian tensions in the wake of nearly two months of Sunni protests. The bombs went...
Tags: Political Dissent, Demonstration, Hugo Chavez, Iraq, Explosions
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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...Tags: Hamid Karzai, Pulitzer Prize Awards, International Military Interventions, West Point, Central Intelligence Agency
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New ESPN doc shines a light on Muhammad Ali trip to Iraq [video]
Once relegated to a dusty corner of film festivals, shorts have started to take on a more central role in the age of digital video. Can they get a boost from compelling sports stories? ESPN, which has drawn plaudits for its “30 for 30”...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Media Industry, John Legend
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Lawsuit challenges ban on women serving in combat positions
L.A. NOWThe American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense, challenging its policy that since 1994 has categorically excluded women from most direct combat positions. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in... -
Bombings rip through Iraq, reportedly killing at least 25
More than two dozen people were reportedly killed Monday in a string of bombings across Iraq that appeared to include sectarian and anti-government attacks. The deadliest of the bombings occurred in the village of Mouafaqiyah, northwest of Baghdad,...
Tags: Local Elections, Brookings Institution, International Military Interventions, Religion and Belief, Politics
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Statehood for Kurds?
The Baghdad newspaper Sabah published a surprising article a few weeks ago. Its editor, Abd Jabbar Shabbout, suggested it was time to settle the "age-old problem" between Iraq's Arabs and Kurds by establishing a "Kurdish state." Never before had I heard...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Wars and Interventions, Iran
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Heroism, Colin Powell, West Point, The Washington Post
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Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...
Tags: Bradley Manning, United Nations, WikiLeaks, Judges, Health and Medical Professionals
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