Updated at 7:28 p.m. EDT, May 17, 2009
At least 20 Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded in today’s reported attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Despite the shrinking number of attacks, Iraqis still worry if violence will explode after U.S. troops leave Iraqi cities. Meanwhile, security forces continue to arrests dozens of Iraqis in operations around the country. Although there is a need to control violent gunmen, some of those captured in these operations could simply be the victims of harassment.
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As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the...
Saturday: 1 US Soldier, 22 Iraqis Killed; 31 Iraqis Wounded; Hundreds of Kurdish Bodies in Mass Graves
Updated at 12:10 p.m. EDT. May 17, 2009
A spate of new attacks has left at least 22 Iraqis dead and another 31 wounded. More mass graves containing hundreds of bodies were discovered in Najaf province. Also, a security guard working for a group of Japanese businesspeople was injured during a shooting in Anbar province. Meanwhile, a U.S. soldier was killed today in southern Iraq, possibly Najaf. There are also reports from Mosul that a U.S. helicopter has been shot down.
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UNITED NATIONS - The Sri Lankan government, which has come under heavy fire for the massive humanitarian crisis in the country's war zone, is winning the 25-year-old military conflict but is on the verge of losing the propaganda war overseas. "It is a very...
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In case you haven't heard, the Iranian "Hitler," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is up for reelection in June. And you would think that nothing could possibly be more important on the international front than defeating "Hitler" at the ballot box. Isn't he "Hitler,"...
Friday: 1 Briton, 6 Iraqis Killed; 9 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 5:50 p.m. EDT, May 15, 2009
At least six Iraqis were killed and another nine were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition troops deaths were reported, but a British employee of a security firm was killed in Hilla. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for a reduction in power-sharing pacts between Shi’ites and minority groups.
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