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Arab League delegation to Iraq to prepare for summit
DPA 30 Jan 2012
An Arab League delegation left for Baghdad Monday on a four-day visit to prepare for the league’s 23rd summit,...
Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of a police station in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, 12 October, 2011 after a bombing there.
Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 60
AP 22 Dec 2011
BAGHDAD — A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in...
US Air Force Major Stacie Shafran carries her luggage to a loading paddock while waiting for her departure from Iraq at the former US Sather Air Base near Baghdad, Iraq, December 14, 2011. The former base that is currently still operational was handed over to the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center run by the State Department on December 1st.
Iraqis celebrate US military exit, but worry for future
AP 18 Dec 2011
BAGHDAD — Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind...
  “The Tobacco Keeper,” by Ali Badr, is a complex, emotionally charged novel of masks and shifting identities. It encompasses eighty years and an overwhelming range of characters and landscapes, but always with one question pulsing beneath the text: How did the violent, terrifying Baghdad of 2006 come to be?
‘The Tobacco Keeper’ asks: Who is Baghdad?
M. Lynx Qualey 05 Dec 2011
Ali Bader’s “The Tobacco Keeper” is a complex, emotionally charged novel of masks and shifting...
U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait Wednesday, 18 August, 2010. The soldiers are part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of US forces.
Biden: US troop exit marks new beginning with Iraq
AP 30 Nov 2011
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his trip to Baghdad ahead of the US military pullout marks...
Iraqi women praying, Sayyidat al-Najat church, Baghdad, Iraq, 11 January, 2011.
Iraqi Christians mark anniversary of church massacre
AFP 31 Oct 2011
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians filled Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad amid tight security on Monday to mark the...
Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of a police station in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, 12 October, 2011 after a bombing there.
25 killed in slew of attacks targeting Iraq police
AP 12 Oct 2011
BAGHDAD - A slew of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, including blasts by two suicide...
Cairo-Baghdad flights resume after 20-year suspension
DPA 27 Aug 2011
EgyptAir on Saturday resumed flights to Iraq following a suspension of more than twenty years. Flight number 625...
Iraqi security forces survey the damage at the scene of a suicide attack near the Anbar provincial government offices in the restive city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad,December 12, 2010. more than ten people were killed, including several policemen.
22 killed in suicide car bombings south of Baghdad
AP 21 Jun 2011
Baghdad - Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early Tuesday near a government compound south of...
EgyptAir to resume flights to Iraq after 21-year gap
Reuters 12 Jun 2011
Egypt's national carrier EgyptAir will resume flights to Iraq in mid-July after they were halted following Iraq...