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Al-Qaeda urges militant `turncoats` to return to its ranks

The Al-Qaeda-linked umbrella group the Islamic State of Iraq has issued a call to Muslim militant fighters who have ...

Eight killed in Iraq violence

Insurgents killed at least six people in a bomb attack on the home of a Shiite family in a mainly Sunni town south of ...

Blind date to blindfold: The kidnap business in Iraq

Nineteen-year-old Mehdi was looking forward to meeting the girl who had been calling for days on his cell phone. But ...

US military to shorten soldier tours of duty

The US Army will shorten the length of tours of duty for personnel deployed in combat zones from a year to nine ...

German diplomat Kobler to be new U.N. Iraq envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday named veteran German diplomat Martin Kobler as his next special envoy ...

Foreign investors willing to invest in Islamic gas pipeline

Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Javad Oji said on Thursday seven foreign investors have ...

Car bomb at Kirkuk church wound 15: police

Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Orthodox church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a ...

RI soccer team should improve stamina before September match

After defeating Turkmenistan 4-3 in the second round of the Asian zone in Jakarta on Thursday (July 28, 2011), the ...

Tikrit twin bombings kill 12, wound 28: Iraq medic

A twin attack involving a car bomb and a suicide bombing in the north Iraq city of Tikrit killed 12 people near a bank ...

Iraqi forces arrest 16 suspected Al Qaeda members

Iraqi security forces have arrested 16 suspected al Qaeda members accused of being behind more than 100 killings in ...

Petraeus steps down in Afghanistan

General David Petraeus, the most celebrated military leader of his generation, stepped down as US commander in ...

Iraq bombs kill 5, wound 23

A car bomb and improvised explosives killed at least five people and wounded 23 in Baghdad and southern Iraq on ...

Twenty Turkish soldiers, Kurdish rebels killed in clash

Kurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers and seven militants died on Thursday in the worst clash since the ...

Saudi dismantles `Qaeda-linked` group: report

Saudi authorities have dismantled an Al-Qaeda-linked group of 16 people plotting to overthrow the regime, the ...

Some NATO allies in Libya exhausted in 90 days

New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday that some NATO allies operating in Libya could see their forces ...