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Iraq elections turnout stands at 62.4%

Written on 8 Mar, 2010 at 11:50 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 56 views times | 0 Comments

Iraq’s electoral body says the 62.4 percent of the eligible 20 million voters cast their ballot in the Sunday elections, despite rains of mortar and rocket attacks. Hamdiyah al-Husseini, a senior official with the Independent High Electoral Commission, announced the... (Continue reading)

PM Maliki Emerges as Front-Runner after Iraq Vote

Written on 8 Mar, 2010 at 7:44 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 67 views times | 0 Comments

08/03/2010 Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, emerged Monday as a front-runner after an election seen as a test of the nation’s young democracy. The key estimates from the Baghdad region, which could swing the results of Sunday’s poll, were not yet... (Continue reading)

Iraqis begin voting amid multiple blasts

Written on 7 Mar, 2010 at 2:13 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 42 views times | 0 Comments

Iraqis have started casting their votes in parliamentary elections as several mortar blasts and bombs have struck the capital Baghdad since polling stations opened early Sunday morning. Twelve people were killed and eight others wounded in a bomb that blow... (Continue reading)

Two suicide attacks kill 31, wound 48 ahead of Iraq polls

Written on 3 Mar, 2010 at 7:35 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 45 views times | 0 Comments

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 48 others before a parliamentary election. The attacks were the bloodiest in the immediate run-up to... (Continue reading)

Iraqi President Urges Arab Countries to Play More Active Role

Written on 19 Feb, 2010 at 11:46 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 97 views times | 0 Comments

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani urged Arab countries to play a more active role in Iraq by means of supporting political and development blueprints in the country. The Iraqi leader made the urge during a meeting with the Arab League’s... (Continue reading)

Ten million worshippers step in Karbala for Arbaeen (Chehlum) commemoration

Written on 3 Feb, 2010 at 7:57 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 130 views times | 0 Comments

More than Ten Million Hussaini pilgrims have been entered in the holy city of Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen (Chehlum) Imam Hussain (AS), (the fortieth day after the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS), the grand son of holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH),... (Continue reading)

Major blast in Karbala kills 20 pilgrims, injures 120

Written on 3 Feb, 2010 at 7:55 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 79 views times | 0 Comments

A bomb blast has left at least 20 people killed and about 120 others wounded in Karbala as violence builds against Shia pilgrims en route to the holy city for a major religious rite. The deadly attack took place on... (Continue reading)

41 people killed in car bombings in Iraq

Written on 9 Aug, 2009 at 23:07 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 132 views times | 0 Comments

More than 41 people have been killed and 156 others injured in three separate bomb explosions in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Baghdad. Two truck bombs killed 25 people and wounded 75 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul... (Continue reading)

Ten killed in Baghdad bombings

Written on 28 Jul, 2009 at 21:52 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 182 views times | 0 Comments

BAGHDAD ( 2009-07-29 02:50:26 ) :Ten people were killed and 42 others were injured in bomb attacks across Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. A motorcycle bomb near a cinema in a crowded area of eastern Baghdad’s predominantly Shia neighbourhood of... (Continue reading)

In Assad-Sadr meeting, Syria backs Iraq unity

Written on 23 Jul, 2009 at 0:06 in Iraq, Middle East, featured | viewed 107 views times | 0 Comments

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has underlined the importance of Iraq’s national unity, offering support for any attempt that would promote security and stability in the war-ravaged state. During a meeting with Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, Assad highlighted that Damascus deemed... (Continue reading)