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3 hrs ago | MLive.com

Volunteers start collecting to Help Send Santa to Baghdad

Santa and his elves will pack up the sleigh with goodies and treats for U.S. troops stationed around the world starting today.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Saginaw Metro, Michigan, Bay City, MI, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Reese, MI

8 hrs ago | St. Petersburg Times

In the gardens of Baghdad, green is the color of peace

Khalil Abbas has worked with plants since he was 7 years old, and his tree nursery could be a barometer of Iraq's changing fortunes.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Home Gardening, Home

12 hrs ago | Scotsman.com

Bomb attacks leave eight dead in Iraq

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17 hrs ago | Monday Morning

Fresh bloodshed at the gates of Baghdad In certain Arab regions, the state is no more than a skeleton

The spectacle of multiple corpses in Iraq unnerved me on October 25. I could not hold back my tears and I remembered the malediction that struck Beirut in the 1980s and '90s until 2005 and its unprecedented and indescribable horrors.

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Related Topix: Iraq, Terrorism, Israel, Middle East

21 hrs ago | Free Republic

Iraqi Forces Arrest 5 Suspected Terrorists

Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected terrorists today in two security operations.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iraq, World News, Terrorism,

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Canada.com

Suicide bombs tear through Baghdad, kill 132

Two suicide bombs tore through Baghdad on Sunday, killing 132 people, wounding more than 500 and leaving mangled bodies and cars on the streets in one of Iraqa TMs deadliest days this year.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Jalal Talabani

Ride BMX

Bikes Over Baghdad Video - BMX Enters The War Zone

A few months ago a crew of BMX riders including Brian Kachinsky, Rooftop, Nate Wessel, Chad Kagy, Catfish, and Walter Pieringer went to Iraq to put on demos for our troops in the war.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News

Gulf Times

Baghdad bombing suspect grabs gun, kills policeman

The ministry did not specify whether he had been shot by police or taken his own life.

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WisInfo

Burning Questions: Commander says timeline to withdraw troops could change

As the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr. will play a key role in making the assessments on which the American military will base its final decision on whether to withdraw all combat forces from Iraq by next August, the goal set by President Obama.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iraq, World News

Telegraph.co.uk

Iraqi stamp auction posts record prices

A collection of stamps to be auctioned in Iraq. The Philatelic and Numismatic Society of Iraq, established in 1951 at the time of the King, has come to life again following the 2003 US-led invasion Photo: AFP On that day the 56-year-old chemical engineer takes off his white coat and raises his auctioneer's gavel.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iraq, World News

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The West Australian

Diggers still busy protecting in Iraq

Australia has ended its combat role in Iraq, but Aussie troops remain in Baghdad protecting diplomats in what has become an increasingly benign security environment compared with the dark days of not long ago.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Travel, Iraq Travel, Australia Travel, Iraq,

Clover Herald

Standoff over Iraq's election law goes on, threatening January's vote

Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial to the country's political stability and to the Obama administration's plans for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Iraq, World News, Middle East, Barack Obama, Joe Biden

The Coastal Courier

3rd ID assumes responsibility in Iraq region

During a ceremony held at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, on Nov 3, Maj.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Schofield Barracks, HI,

Nevada Appeal

Plates honor fallen soldiers

Cathleen Allison/Nevada Appeal Tom Jacobs, public information officer for the Department of Motor Vehicles, shows a sample of the Gold Star plates that will become available Monday for families of servicemen killed in the line of the duty.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jim Gibbons, US Governors, Jim Gibbons , Iraq, World News

Clover Herald

US military: 2 American soldiers die in Iraq

The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq - one in combat and one of noncombat-related injuries.

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People's Daily

Iran, Iraq expanding economic, political ties

Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that economic and political cooperation between Iran and Iraq is expanding, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iran, World News, Iraq

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Center for Cooperative Research

April 8-12, 2003: Baghdad Museum Evacuated and Locked

The Baghdad Museum is evacuated and locked by its curators, who anticipate Baghdad being overrun by American troops within the next few hours.

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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Wisconsin Guard has key role in Baghdad's future

With a few pen strokes and hugs, and two very large keys, the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team officially transferred two large properties inside Baghdad's International Zone back to the Iraqi government.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, US National Guard

The Daily Star

Thousands of Iraqi refugees seek resettlement in West

DAMASCUS: Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Syria, World News, Iraq

Post Tribune

Brit-Chinese consortium inks Iraq oil pact

Iraq on Tuesday finalized a deal with a British-Chinese consortium to develop its biggest oil field, a deal marking a milestone moment in the OPEC nation's push to lure foreign investors sorely needed to revamp its battered oil sector.

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Related Topix: World News, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), Iraq

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