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  • 32 die in Iraq suicide bombing

    At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said. The attacks occurred around midday at the al-Husseiniyah mosque in al-Qahira district, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up during prayers, Xinhua reported. The official said the two attackers first shot dead the guards of the mosque with ...

  • 15 killed in suicide bombing at Baghdad Shiite mosque

    Baghdad, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Up to 15 people were killed and 30 wounded in a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. The attack occurred around midday when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden vest among worshippers at a mosque in al- Qahira district in northern Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...

  • Ron Paul ‘Obama’s Syria policy looks a lot like Bush’s Iraq policy’

    War Did the White House's remarks about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons sound familiar? Former congressman Ron Paul says the build up to a likely strike on Syria reminds him of the days before the invasion of Iraq. Paul, the longtime Republican lawmaker from Texas who retired last year following an unsuccessful attempt to gain the GOP nomination for the ...

  • Iraq excludes Kurds from ambitious 2014 oil output target

    Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:38pm EDT * Target for 4.5 mln bpd output relies on southern oilfields * Kurdistan says excluded from national energy strategy * High-level committee formed to settle Baghdad-Kurd oil row By Peg Mackey LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Iraq aims to ramp up oil production by nearly 45 percent by the end of next year - without any input from its autonomous Kurdistan region - which ...

  • Suicide Bombers Kill 37 at Shiite Mosque in Baghdad

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  • Twin Suicide Attacks Kill 29 in Iraq

    Tuesday's coordinated blasts struck after midday prayers in the Iraqi capital's northern al-Qahira district. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint near the mosque and minutes later a second person blew himself up inside the building. Iraq has seen a surge in violence that officials blame on Sunni Islamist insurgents and al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq. ...

  • Chevron signs 3rd Kurdistan oil deal after being banned by Iraq

    Kurdistan’s Qara Dagh oil field. The Kurdish Regional Government has signed an oil exploration contract with the U.S. firm Chevron. Under the accord, Chevron would explore the Qara Dagh field, which encompasses 860 kilometers. ';Chevron will acquire an interest in and operatorship of the Qara Dagh block production sharing contract from the Kurdistan regional government,'; ...

  • Total extends reach in Kurdish Iraq

    Iraq by becoming the operator of a concession in the autonomous area. The company bought an 80 per cent stake in the Baranan block, with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) holding the remainder, as the presence of oil majors into the Kurdish region continues to grow in spite of Baghdad's objections. Total has held a 35 per cent stake in the Harir and Safen blocks in the region since ...

  • Suicide bombers targeting Shias kill dozens in Baghdad

    Iraqis walk past damaged buildings and burnt out vehicles following a car bomb that exploded the previous day in the commercial centre of the capital Baghdad on May 28, 2013. Another suicide bombing killed 31 in Baghdad on June 18. (Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images) At ...

  • Infertile Crescent Waters run dry in Iraqi marshes

    BASRA, Iraq -- Jassim al-Asadi was born 56 years ago in a boat at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Back then, vast wetlands covered one-fifth of Iraq, sustaining a unique culture of marsh-dwelling Arabs that fish the waters and live among the reeds. Al-Asadi remembers ferrying himself on his own boat every day to school -- a reed platform in the middle of the marshes -- during ...

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