Iraq News

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf Sunday.

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Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and international sanctions.

Iraqi oil officials have said the country plans to raise oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day next month after it opens up a new Gulf outlet, freeing Baghdad to export all the extra barrels foreign oil companies are extracting from its giant fields, Reuters has reported.

An Iraqi interior ministry official was assassinated while driving in Baghdad, one of several deadly attacks Saturday reported by police.

Entertaining the troops has long been seen as a vital and necessary way of boosting the morale of armed forces stationed overseas.

A group of political dissidents created a new Iraqi opposition party Saturday, vowing to act as a check on the government as the prime minister warned that a push for regional autonomy could tear the country apart.

CTV Ottawa's Carol Anne Meehan is thanking members of the public for their support after her husband was found dead a week and a half ago.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iraq's deputy interior minister told AFP on Saturday, Feb 11.

Police officials say Lt. Col. Salman Kadhim was badly hurt when the bomb that was hidden in a parked car in the town of Jbala detonated on Friday.

It took 19 months, but as President Obama addressed the American people tonight on the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq, it was clear to me that the young Illinois Senator had grown into the job a majority of Americans entrusted to him.

BAGHDAD: Iraq aims to boost oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day next month after it opens up a new Gulf outlet, a senior Iraqi oil official said, freeing Baghdad to export all the extra barrels foreign oil companies are extracting from its giant fields.

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In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil refinery, near Basra, Iraq.

Iraq executed 14 people on a single day this week, most of them Al-Qaeda members, a senior justice ministry official said on Wednesday, bringing to at least 65 the number of executions so far this year.

A funeral service is to be held for a Scottish security guard who was kidnapped in Iraq five years ago.

Military contractor truck that was severely damaged in an explosion in Iraq, probably a roadside bomb or IED.

Local leaders in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, bordering on Syria, have pledged humanitarian support for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus.

The last American soldiers except for a small number under US embassy authority departed Iraq in mid-December, after almost nine years in the country.