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A boycott call and security concerns mar Iraq's first provincial elections in a decade
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBaghdad’s streets were nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first...
Hundreds protest new proposed election law in Baghdad
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHundreds of protesters took to the streets in Baghdad on Monday to denounce a draft elections law...
Deadlock gives Iraq record run without government, hampering reforms
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq marked its longest post-election deadlock on Wednesday as infighting among...
Iraqi factions call for new government in rival protests
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Rival Iraqi factions took to the streets of Baghdad on Friday to call for a new...
Political crisis continues in Baghdad after bloody clashes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi paramilitary forces killed in heavy clashes with the supporters of a powerful...
Tear gas fired, scores wounded in Baghdad protest marking 2019 unrest
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades on Saturday to disperse...
Iraqi cleric Sadr calls off protests after worst Baghdad violence in years
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in...
Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBAGHDAD (AP) — It’s been 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began. Here are some key dates...
Clashes in Iraq's Basra kill four as crisis flares in oil-rich south
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have...
Officials: US aid worker shot dead in Baghdad in rare attack
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAssailants fatally shot an American aid worker Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi...