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A US federal jury sentenced to five consecutive life terms a former American soldier for raping and fatally shooting an Iraqi girl aged 14, as well as killing three of her family members. The carnage happened while Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, was serving in Iraq in 2006. ‘Green shot and killed the teen’s mother, father and sister, [...]

Many people were killed and hundreds injured in various deadly bomb explosions which rocked Baghdad today. The coordinated mortar fire and car bomb attacks were mainly targeted at all official government buildings including the most deadly one near Foreign Ministry. Sunni extremists are suspected to be responsible for these attacks. The attacks have [...]

Euphrates is drying. Strangled by the politics of the neighbors’ from Iraq water, Turkey and Syria; two years of drought and years of inadequate use for Iraq and their farmers, the river is significantly smaller of the than there are just few years. Some authorities fear that soon can be the half than it was. The shrink of Euphrates, such a crucial [...]

Since early morning, Indian Standard Time, United States combat forces stationed in Iraq have begun the formal ‘transfer of power’ to the Iraqi authorities, thus giving back control of many major Iraqi cities to its police force and the security forces. At midnight on Monday, the countdown clock being broadcast on Iraqi TV struck zero, thus [...]

Hurriyah, a neighborhood in Baghdad, will soon be turned over by US troops to their Iraqi counterpart. This place was the scene of some of the fiercest fightings three years ago between the Shiite and the Sunni factions. While the Iraqi battalion that will take over the place is purported to be one of the best in the force, members of the battalion [...]

The tourist office of the Babil Governorate in Iraq offers former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s bedroom in the Al-Hillah Presidential Palace. If you’re a journalist (who will hopefully write about your happy experience and sound sleep), you will get a discount. The Governorate of Babil launched the idea of double-occupancy room with view [...]

This does sound like good news. If the preliminary reports prove accurate, then Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and several secular parties appear to have scored significant gains in Iraq’s provincial elections that took place last Saturday Mr. Maliki’s Dawa Party drew strong support in Basra and Baghdad, two of Iraq’s largest and most politically [...]