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Suicide bombers kill 11 military police in Iraq dinner attack - police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers killed at least 11 military and police officers and wounded 19 late on Tuesday by blowing themselves up outside a Sunni militia leader's house in northern Baghdad as he was hosting dinner.Police in the Sunni neighbourhood said the leader of the Sunni "Sahwa" militia, Saeed Jassim, was not hurt, but the commander of the military battalion ...
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Double suicide attack in central Iraq kills 12
BAGHDAD -- Officials say a twin suicide attack targeting soldiers and anti-al-Qaida militiamen in central Iraq has killed 12 people.A police officer says the first attacker detonated his explosives-laden belt late Tuesday among a group of soldiers and Sahwa militiamen gathered in the orchard of a local militia leader in the town of Tarmiyah.A second suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of ...
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Iraq’s PM heads to US to seek arms to fight militants
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki travelled to the United States on Tuesday to press for urgent help and arms to combat the worst upsurge of violence in years. Nearly three years since the last U.S. troops withdrew, Sunni Islamist militants are waging a campaign to destabilize the Shi’ite-led ...
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In Iraq Sunni attacks spark Shiite...
(3/6) FILE - In this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2013, women walk past the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq. The wave of attacks by al-Qaida and Sunni ...
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Iraq PM heads to US to push for security support
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 29, 2013 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki left for Washington on Tuesday, where he will push for increased US support for Baghdad's efforts to curb a months-long surge in violence. The unrest in Iraq has reached a level unseen since 2008 and killed more than 5,350 people this year, as authorities have so far failed to curb daily attacks despite carrying out a swathe ...
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As Sunni violence spirals some Shiites issue call to arms and Iraqi government seeks US help
FILE - In this file photo taken on May 26, 2004, Qais al-Khazali, then the top aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and leader of a militant group called Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, inspects the damage after overnight fighting against Iraqi army and US forces in Najaf, Iraq. The wave of attacks by al-Qaida and Sunni extremists that has killed thousands of Iraqis in ...
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Senators Warn Obama Before Iraq Leader’s Visit
Mr. Maliki, who is scheduled to meet with Mr. Obama on Friday, has signaled that he wants the United States to provide sophisticated weapons, including Apache attack helicopters, so that the Iraqi government can fight Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent ...
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For Australia in Afghanistan victory was never an option | Rodger Shanahan
Tony Abbott has declared the conflict over, but what did it achieve? Not victory, but a society in a fairer and more capable state, and with the potential to ...
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