Baghdad: Five American troops serving as advisers to Iraqi security police in eastern Baghdad were killed on Monday when rockets slammed into the compound where they lived. The deaths were the largest single-day loss of life for American forces in two years. The US military announced the deaths in a brief statement, excluding details. Two Iraqi security officials later said the troops died when three rockets hit near the US...
08:28 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Baghdad: A suicide bomber attacked a mosque filled with Iraqi politicians and policemen on Friday and another blew himself up inside the hospital where the wounded were taken, killing a total of 21 people in Saddam Hussein's hometown. The twin attacks as well as the fact that the bombers were able to infiltrate areas that were supposed to be secure, left people in Tikrit feeling under siege. It was the...
02:06 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Baghdad: Eighteen people, including an al Qaeda leader and a senior Iraqi counter-terrorism official, died in a battle between inmates and security officers during a jailbreak attempt in Baghdad on Sunday, security officials said. Huthaifa al-Batawi, known as al Qaeda's "Emir of Baghdad" and the alleged architect of a deadly attack on a Catholic church, was killed along with 10 other senior al Qaeda militants, said Baghdad's security spokesman Major...
08:30 PM, May 08, 2011
Baghdad: Gunmen wearing military uniforms and suicide bomb belts stormed a local government headquarters in northern Iraq on Tuesday in an attempt to take hostages that killed at least 21 people, officials said. Three lawmakers who were inside the Salahuddin provincial council building in Tikrit when the gunmen overran the compound are missing, said provincial governor Ahmed Abdullah. He said the lawmakers were not answering their mobile phones and could...
09:23 PM, Mar 29, 2011
In the last five years, twitter has been witness to history in the making. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 17, 2011
Arbil: Gunmen raided and set fire to a television station in northern Iraq on Sunday, shutting down broadcasts of protests inspired by unrest around the Arab world, station and government officials said. At least four people were wounded in the city of Sulaimaniya as hundreds of protesters took to the streets. Rallies seeking better public services, the ouster of local officials and other demands also took place in Falluja and...
12:11 AM, Feb 21, 2011
Baghdad: Two people were killed and 47 wounded during a protest in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya on Thursday, sources said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for demonstrations to be kept peaceful. Protests also hit the southern city of Kut, the oil hub of Basra, the northern oil city of Kirkuk and other towns - the latest in a series of demonstrations against local governments and demanding an...
07:47 AM, Feb 18, 2011
London: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had advised the former US vice-president Dick Cheney not to dethrone Saddam Hussein, according to leaked US cables. Mubarak warned that by ignoring his advice and invading Iraq the Americans had increased the threat posed by Iran, The Telegraph reported WikiLeaks as stating, adding that he had stated this during a breakfast meet with US Congressmen at the presidential palace in Cairo in December, 2008....
10:17 AM, Feb 11, 2011
Jaipur: On a cold night in a quiet town, 71-year-old Jeff Knaebel crept into the ruins of an ancient Buddhist meditation center in northern India, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself alight to protest what he called cruelty in the United States and India. It was a political ending for a political man: an admirer of pacifist freedom fighter Mohandas K Gandhi and a retired mining engineer...
12:07 PM, Jan 29, 2011
Washington: The US has been able to "continually shrink" al-Qaeda's ability to launch terror operations against it even as the situation in the Af-Pak region remains not perfect, President Barack Obama has said. "The situation's not going to be perfect there, but what we have been able to do is to continually shrink the ability of al-Qaeda to launch operations. And we expect to dismantle their operational capacity over the...
10:27 AM, Jan 28, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: A ship with over 25 Pakistanis and Iraqis on board was detained on Sunday, off the coast of Lakshadweep after it entered Indian waters illegally. It is suspected that the ship could have been moving towards the Maldives, which, according to Indian intelligence, is a preferred destination for terror groups based in Pakistan. A search was conducted on the ship and a special team has been sent from Delhi...
06:22 PM, Dec 26, 2010
Vatican City: Pope Benedict prayed for a rebirth of peace in the Middle East and encouraged Catholics in Iraq and communist China to resist persecution in his Christmas message read amid heightened security on Saturday. In the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message, he said the Christmas message of peace and hope was always new, surprising and daring and should spur everyone in the peaceful struggle...
09:59 AM, Dec 26, 2010
Los Angeles: Iraqi refugees newly arrived in the United States are exhibiting high rates of chronic health conditions, including the same prevalence of obesity as Californians, government researchers reported. Iraqis represent the largest group of refugees resettling in the United States, accounting for 28,000 arrivals during the past two years -- or 21 per cent of the total -- with nearly a quarter going to California, the most for any...
09:02 PM, Dec 18, 2010
Baghdad: Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al-Qaida is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials said on Wednesday. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told that the botched bombing in central Stockholm last weekend was among the alleged plots the insurgents revealed. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in a telephone interview from New York, called the claims...
11:36 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Bagdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that he would form a government by mid-December that would incorporate all the main political factions, including rival Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc. President Jalal Talabani formally asked Maliki on Thursday to form a government, giving him 30 days to choose a cabinet from fractious Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political factions. "I will not let time go by until the period ends....
11:14 PM, Nov 27, 2010
New York: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living a "haunted life" fearing arrest and has been on the run following the release of nearly 4 lakh secret US military documents related to Iraq war on his whistle-blowing website. 39-year-old Assange checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends, said 'The New York Times',...
11:13 AM, Oct 25, 2010
The UN has asked the US to probe the alleged role of US troops in human rights violations during the Iraq war. ...
12:17 PM, Oct 24, 2010
Washington: WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified US files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the US military knew about but failed to investigate. The Pentagon decried the website's publication of the secret reports, the largest security breach of its kind in US military history, far surpassing the group's dump of more than 70,000 Afghan war files in July. US...
08:01 AM, Oct 23, 2010
Washington: The Pentagon is bracing itself for a second grand disclosure by Wikileaks on Monday, touted to be the largest security breach of its kind in US military history. The online whistle blower website is expected to release a whopping 40 thousand documents on the Iraq war — five times the size of the Afghan document dump. This disclosure happens to be four times the number of classified documents released...
10:24 AM, Oct 18, 2010
