BAGHDAD — Three bombs exploded around the home of two policemen south of Baghdad Thursday morning, killing nine people inside, including two babies less than six months old, an Iraqi security official said. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi special forces units raided the homes of two Sunni politicians north of Baghdad on Friday, according to security officials, heightening fears among Sunni leaders that Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is targeting them along sectarian lines. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is pushing to form a Shiite-controlled government that risks tearing the country apart unless he changes course or is removed from office, a Sunni-backed politician said at a news conference Wednesday. Read full article > >

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The Maliki government in Iraq is flexing a bit more. Seems U.S. government employees traveling to Iraq are being advised that they’re going to need “valid Iraqi visas” to enter the country. “With the termination of the security agreement between” the Iraqi government and the U.S. military, the department announced Monday, “passports and valid Iraqi visas are required for all government personnel and contractors,” including TCNs, or third-country nationals. Read full article > >

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Gunmen wearing explosive belts stormed an anti-terrorism police building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday and at least six people died in the attack, police and provincial officials said.

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At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on Shia pilgrims in the Iraqi city of Basra, Iraqi police and security sources say.

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Four explosions rock Shia areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 13 people, officials say.

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A wave of attacks hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad

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An Iraqi delegation led by National Security adviser Falah al-Fayadh says it has held “positive” talks in Syria aimed at ending the violence there.

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It is a curious case in the annals of the FBI: The bureau considered a sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich after sifting through allegations from a notorious arms dealer that a $10 million bribe might get Congress to lift the Iraqi arms embargo. The FBI ended up calling off the operation in June 1997. It decided there was no evidence that Gingrich knew anything about the conversations the arms dealer was secretly recording with a man who said he was acting on behalf of Gingrich’s then-wife, Marianne, according to people with knowledge of the investigation. Read full article > >

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As Iraqi P.M. Meets Obama at White House.

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NATO Withdraws All Iraq Troops

The Obama administration is wrestling with a decision about whether to turn Ali Musa Daqduq over to the Iraqi government or to find a way to take him with the military as it withdraws.

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The last U.S. troops to occupy Camp Victory, once one of the largest and most high-profile American military bases in Iraq, left Friday afternoon as the Iraqi government assumed control of the sprawling complex near Baghdad's main airport.

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A car bomb hits a market in the Iraqi town of Khalis, north of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, security officials say.

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A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say.

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