Iraqis

US military says 77,000 Iraqis killed over 5 years (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Baghdad, September 2010. Six people have been killed in separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - In its most extensive death tally of the Iraq war, the U.S. military says nearly 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security officials were killed from early 2004 to mid-2008…

4 Iraqis escape from US custody in Baghdad prison (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pictured in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on August 8. Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a AP - Four prisoners with links to al-Qaida have escaped from the U.S.-controlled part of a maximum-security prison in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.


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Fearing the future, few Iraqis cheer US departure (AP)

August 31st, 2010

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, walks with Gen. Ray Odierno, right, after he arrived, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.


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As US military bases close, Iraqis left behind (AP)

August 28th, 2010

In this photo taken Aug. 22, 2010, Ahmed Adnan Abdul Hasan holds a certificate of appreciation from a U.S. military officer during an interview with the Associated Press in al-Faris village, north of Baghdad, Iraq. As the American military is winding down its time here, the Iraqis who at one time worked so closely with U.S. forces they began to absorb their mannerisms and tastes, are starting to wonder what will happen to them when their benefactors have gone. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Just about every man from the village of al-Faris has worked at the nearby Taji military base. The American money and influence is seen in the new cars,…

Bomber kills 61 Iraqis in recruitment drive (AP)

August 17th, 2010

A wounded army recruit is transferred to a hospital after a bomb attack occurred in Baghdad August 17, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenAP - Young men from some of Iraq’s poorest areas waited all night outside an army recruitment center, only to become easy prey Tuesday for a suicide bomber who killed…

Basra blasts kill 20 Iraqis, wound scores (AP)

August 7th, 2010

Iraqi men evacuate a victim from the scene of an explosion in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 7, 2010. Health officials say evening market blasts in Iraq's second-largest city have killed several people and wounded dozens.(AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Explosions killed at least 20 people and wounded as many as 100 Saturday night at a downtown market in Iraq’s second-largest city, a senior official said, coming at…

Electricity-starved Iraqis’ obsession: generators (AP)

June 26th, 2010

In this Friday, June 25, 2010 photo, Abbas Ahmed navigates a network of generator wires during a power outage in Baghdad, Iraq. Love them or hate them, usually both, but Baghdad residents are obsessed with the thousands of generators around the city that they rely on for electricity because the national power grid is so notoriously unreliable. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - When the roar of the local generator fills the neighborhood, Muna Hussein’s 3-year-old son breaks into dancing. He knows their home will soon have electricity so he can…

Bomb kills 2 Americans, 3 Iraqis on joint patrol (AP)

June 11th, 2010

Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attend open air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A suicide attacker in an explosives-rigged car bombed U.S. and Iraqi forces on joint patrol Friday, killing two Americans and at least three Iraqis.


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Mounting concern among Iraqis about more violence (AP)

May 14th, 2010

Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen in the poster at center, crowd a street as they attend open air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2010. On Friday, al-Qaida in Iraq warned Shiites that 'dark days soaked with blood' lie ahead and warned of a new campaign of attacks violence yet to come. Hours later a bomb went off outside a mosque south of Baghdad, wounding 20 people, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Many Iraqis are increasingly uneasy that a wave of bombings and shootings may revive all-out sectarian warfare that ravaged the country several years ago. In Baghdad and other…

Militant turncoat leads Iraqis to al-Qaida chiefs (AP)

April 30th, 2010

Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi speaks to The Associated Press at an undisclosed location in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 23, 2010.   In the interview released Friday April 30, 2010, with The Associated Press, the detained militant Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi,  offered a rare insight into the shadowy al-Qaida  terror group, and information about the raid that killed the two top-ranking al-Qaida figures.(AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)AP - Leery of using a mobile phone, the militant tasked with directing some of Baghdad’s deadliest recent bombings would get his orders from al-Qaida in Iraq’s leadership by meeting…