Sunday, 1 January 2012

Iraqi civilian deaths in December lowest level in 2011 (Reuters)

Reuters - The number of civilians killed in violence across Iraq dropped to a year low in December, government figures showed on Sunday, despite bombings that rocked the capital after the pullout of U.S. forces.


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Feeling marginalized, some Iraq Sunnis eye autonomy (Reuters)

Reuters - Amjad Abdul-Salam is one of a growing number of Iraqis who say a separate state for his fellow Sunni Muslims is the only way to stop the country sliding back into sectarian chaos.


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Saturday, 31 December 2011

Iraqi leader celebrates US withdrawal as new dawn (AP)

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki speaks to his supporters in Baghdad, Iraq. Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says the end of the American military presence in Iraq is a new dawn for his country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq's prime minister hailed the end of the American military presence in Iraq as a new dawn for his country and urged Iraqis to preserve the unity of a nation still under attack by insurgents and beset by sectarian divisions.



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Gunmen kill five Iraq Sunni militia: police (Reuters)

Union members and human rights activists hold a banner that reads ' Interior minister and Air force commander resign! ' as they march to protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 . Thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq. Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.(AP Photo)Reuters - Gunmen carrying silenced weapons attacked a checkpoint manned by government-backed Sunni militiamen and killed all five of them in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, security officials said on Saturday.



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Friday, 30 December 2011

Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills militant (AP)

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Thursday, 29 December 2011

U.N. complains to Iraq over attack on dissident camp (Reuters)

Reuters - The United Nations has complained to Iraq about mortar attacks this week on an Iranian dissident camp near Baghdad and has won a promise that they will be stopped, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.


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Rights group says Hamas targeting Fatah members (AP)

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