 | Boy, 5, doused in gas, set on fire by masked men (News)
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Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, his once beautiful smile turned into a grotesquely disfigured face -- the face of a horrifying act by masked men. They grabbed him on a January day outside h..
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| Military: New Iraqi school had bombs built in (News)
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American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday.
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| U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber (News)
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A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U...
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| Reports: UK to begin withdrawing Iraq troops (News)
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will order nearly half the British troops in Iraq home by the end of 2007, British news outlets reported early Wednesday.
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 | Humvee Traffic Driving in Baghdad (Video)
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Watch and see how the American soldiers have to drive through Iraqi streets to limit risks of attacks.
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| U.S. ties Iranian leader to bombs killing U.S. troops (News)
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The U.S. military Sunday presented evidence it says shows an elite Iranian force under the command of Iran's supreme leader is behind bombings that have killed at least 170 U.S. troops in Iraq.
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| Lawmaker: U.S. sent giant pallets of cash into Iraq (News)
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The Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said ..
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| Rift seen in Iraq insurgency -- some groups reject al Qaeda (News)
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U.S. forces have begun arming nationalist guerrillas and former Saddam Hussein loyalists -- and coordinating tactics -- in a marriage of convenience against al Qaeda radicals in one of Iraq's most vio..
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| Truck blast in Baghdad market kills more than 120 (News)
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden truck in a crowded Baghdad market Saturday, killing at least 128 people and wounding 343 others, a Health Ministry official said.
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| Suicide attack kills 8 in Iraqi parliament cafeteria (News)
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A suicide attack in Iraq's parliament building on Thursday killed eight people, including two Iraqi lawmakers, and wounded 20, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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| Woman's plea from death row: I'm innocent (News)
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Sitting on Iraq's death row is a 25-year-old woman convicted in the slayings of three relatives. She says her husband carried out the killings and fled. She confessed to being an accomplice, she says,..
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| Report: Intelligence predicted most problems in Iraq (News)
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Before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, U.S. intelligence predicted many of the current challenges there, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation report released Friday.
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| U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy (News)
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Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that ..
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| Iraq battle was self-defense, security firm says (News)
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Iraqi officials Monday condemned the weekend killings of eight civilians during a Baghdad street battle involving American security contractors and said they would shut down Blackwater, the company in..
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| Teen dead who opened fire on Finnish classmates, police say (News)
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An 18-year-old authorities say shot eight people inside his high school in southern Finland, before turning the gun on himself, has died, police said.
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 | scaring iraqi children (Video)
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soldier gives away all the candy he has, to the children and they keep coming back for more, so he scares the crap out of him.
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| Iran involvement suspected in Karbala compound attack (News)
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The Pentagon is investigating whether a recent attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, two officials from separate U.S. government agencies..
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| Al-Maliki: Iraq won't be battleground for U.S., Iran (News)
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Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations.
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| U.S. troops allowed to kill Iranians plotting attacks in Iraq (News)
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The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to capture or kill Iranian agents in Iraq who are plotting attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, a U.S. national security official said Fr..
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| Officials: Insurgents aimed to kill top Shiite clerics (News)
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A battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents raged into Monday morning after Iraqi officials said they foiled a plot to attack pilgrims and kill leading clerics in the Shiite Muslim holy c..
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| Cheney: Talk of blunders in Iraq is 'hogwash' (News)
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday dismissed as "hogwash" the suggestion that blunders may have hurt the administration's credibility on Iraq and led members of Congress on both sides o..
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| Official: Saudis to back Sunnis if U.S. leaves Iraq (News)
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has warned Vice President Dick Cheney that Saudi Arabia would back the Sunnis if the United States pulls out of Iraq, according to a senior American official.
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| Iraqi terror leader reported wounded (News)
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The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded and his top aide killed in a clash with police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN Thursday.
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| U.S. military: Suicide bombers kill 9 U.S. soldiers in Iraq (News)
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Two suicide car bombers struck a small U.S. patrol base in Diyala province Monday, killing nine American soldiers and wounding 20 others, according to a U.S. military official in Diyala.
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| Shadowy Iraq office accused of sectarian agenda (News)
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Iraq's prime minister has created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the count..
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