BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq said on Wednesday it plans to rebuild the the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, complete with a museum to portray crimes committed by the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein. The prison, located 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Baghdad, was closed in September 2006 after...
BAGHDAD AFP — US forces killed six Iraqi security personnel north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, in an incident which the American military said was a case of "mistaken fire". The shooting erupted at a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint in the town of Tarmiyah at...
BAGHDAD AFP — The United States has three days to respond to fresh proposals from Iraq on the contentious security deal being negotiated by the two countries, a top Shiite MP said on Wednesday. Ali al-Adeeb of the Shiite Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, a party closely allied to Prime...
BAGHDAD AFP — Ibrahim Jassam, an Iraqi photographer working for Anglo-Canadian news group Reuters, has been arrested by American forces just south of Baghdad, the US military and the agency told AFP Wednesday. "He has been detained because he has been assessed to be a threat to the security...
BAGHDAD AFP — At least eight people including a policeman were killed and 21 others injured on Tuesday in three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and Mosul, police said. In the troubled northern city of Mosul four people were killed and four others wounded when a...
BAGHDAD AFP — A draft security deal between Washington and Baghdad on the future of US forces in Iraq is to be submitted to parliament within 10 days, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "The SOFA Status of Forces Agreement will be sent to parliament...
BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi army began on Tuesday evicting squatters occupying the homes of people who fled sectarian violence in Baghdad but little movement could be seen on the first day of Ramadan for Shiites. "The Iraqi forces started today Tuesday to evacuate the homes of families displaced,...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq on Tuesday cleared a plan to develop an oil field by China Petroleum National Corp. at a service fee of six dollars a barrel, giving Beijing a foothold into the world's third largest oil reserves. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said the cabinet had approved...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi forces will begin evacuating from next week squatters illegally occupying the Baghdad homes of people who fled at the height of the sectarian conflict, officials said on Saturday. The move is designed to encourage people who are the legal owners of their homes to return,...
BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday. "Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman...
BAGHDAD AFP — An American soldier has died of wounds received in a bomb attack in Baghdad, the US military in Iraq said on Wednesday. The soldier was wounded after the vehicle he was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb in the northeast of the capital on...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq is negotiating a multi-million-dollar loan from Japan to fund water and sewage projects in Baghdad and in the northern Kurdish region, the government said on Wednesday. The cabinet has approved the 36.5-billion-yen (332-million-dollar) loan and the proposal was now with the Iraqi parliament, government spokesman...
BAGHDAD AFP — For two hours on a clear, hot summer evening, Baghdadis forgot the bloodshed and hatred that has divided their city and shared their delight for Iraq's national passion -- football. For the first time since the US-led invasion of 2003, nearly 50,000 people crowded the national...
BAGHDAD AFP — Three bomb attacks and a shootout claimed the lives of nine people and wounded more than two dozen in Iraq on Sunday, security officials said. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded when a roadside bomb blasted their patrol in the town of...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi businessman Saad al-Sudani is confident that Iraq's commercial climate is edging towards normalcy but the merchant also knows just how quickly it can all go wrong again. Four months ago the meat and dairy supplier suffered a loss of almost one million dollars when US...
BAGHDAD AFP — The US military said on Sunday it has captured an Al-Qaeda militant who allegedly planned the abduction of American journalist Jill Carroll in January 2006. Salim Abdallah Ashur al-Shujayri, also known as Abu Uthman, was captured during an operation on August 11, the military said in...
BAGHDAD AFP — A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people and wounded 32 when he attacked a dinner banquet attended by police and members of an anti-Qaeda Awakening group near Baghdad Sunday, a security official said. The bomber blew up his explosives-laden vest as police and members of...
BAGHDAD AFP — An Iraqi court has condemned to death in absentia a Sunni Arab former minister for his role in the murder of a fellow Sunni politician's two sons, the court's spokesman told AFP on Saturday. Abdul Sattar al-Byrakdar said the Central Criminal Court of Iraq had on...
BAGHDAD AFP — Gunmen shot dead a top Iraqi official working with the ministry of culture on a highway in central Baghdad on Saturday, security officials told AFP. Kamel Shiya Abdallah, an adviser to the ministry, was in his car when gunmen opened fire on him and his driver...
BAGHDAD AFP — A meeting of leading Iraqis to mull the draft of a military pact between Washington and Baghdad is unlikely to take place Friday, political leaders said, adding that they knew nothing about it. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday after a meeting with US Secretary...
