A group of six world powers begin fresh talks with Iran in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, about Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.

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Six years ago a group of surgeons opened a temporary clinic in Jordan to operate on Iraqis with injuries untreatable in their home country, but recent violence in Libya, Yemen and Syria has led to the project being extended and expanded

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VIDEO: Jordan treating victims of Mid-East violence

Interpol on Tuesday issued a “red notice” for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is suspected of guiding and financing terrorist attacks in the country.

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Seeking new ways to treat post-traumatic stress, the Department of Veterans Affairs is studying the use of transcendental meditation to help returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans Affairs’ $5.9 billion system for mental-health care is under sharp criticism, particularly after the release of an inspector general’s report last month that found that the department has greatly overstated how quickly it treats veterans seeking mental-health care. Read full article > >

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VA testing whether meditation can help treat PTSD

Khalid Yohana was 7 years old when war reached his hometown of Mosul, Iraq.

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Soccer helps kids get over war

“There Is Someone” is a show that has attracted a huge following with the sort of talk that is popular with young men everywhere, but censors and religious groups are not laughing.

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Baghdad Journal: Iraqi TV Show Dares to Talk About Sex

The changes institutionalize tactics adopted ad hoc in Iraq and Afghanistan, including putting some conventional units under Special Operations command.

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Gen. Ray Odierno Seeks to Reshape Training and Deployment for Soldiers

Hyman Strachman found a fulfilling hobby after his wife died: sending hundreds of thousands of illicitly copied Hollywood hits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero

A series of deadly blasts strikes a number of Iraqi cities, killing at least 35 people and injuring 100 more, police say.

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Iraqi cities hit by deadly blasts

A series of videos appeared online Saturday purporting to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime to evade capture, deriding Iraq's current leadership.

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Videos appear to show Saddam official

An Iraqi woman who was left brutally beaten in her Southern California home with an apparently xenophobic note beside her has died.

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Iraqi woman beaten to death; note left

Across the country, near-record numbers of displaced families are pouring home, but instead of kindling a much-needed reconciliation they are reviving resentments and suspicions.

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As the Displaced Return to Iraq, New Tensions Arise

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan last week, was deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan over a decade, raising questions about the stress of combat.

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Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading two U.S. reconstruction teams in Iraq, was stripped of his security clearance, banned from State Department headquarters for a time and transferred to a telework job that consists of copying Internet addresses into a file. Read full article > >

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State Department moves to fire diplomat who criticized Iraq reconstruction

BAGHDAD — Panic is spreading among young people in Iraq after reports by Iraqi media and rights groups that dozens of people have been threatened or killed in the past few weeks because they are suspected of being gay or because they dress in a distinctive, gothic style known as emo. Read full article > >

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Iraqi youth panicked by reports of killings