Baghdad (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - As Iraqi forces struggle to pin back the Islamic State group on the ground, Baghdad is taking its war against the jihadists to the airwaves with a television comedy series.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 23, 2014 - A car bomb exploded near a market in the Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi police and medical sources said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 04, 2014 - Two car bombs exploded in Shiite-majority areas of the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 17 people, security and medical officials said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 30, 2013 - Nine car bombs mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday, security and medical officials said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 17, 2013 - A series of Baghdad car bombings mostly targeting Shiite neighbourhoods were the deadliest in a spate of attacks that killed 34 people in Iraq Tuesday, security and medical officials said.
Washington (UPI) Oct 04 2006 - The Iraqi government late Tuesday recalled an entire national police brigade from northwest Baghdad for complicity with death squads, a U.S. official said Wednesday. I don't know what degree any of the leadership knew, but there is clear evidence that there was some complicity in allowing death squad elements to move freely when in fact they were supposed to have been impeding their movement, that perhaps they did not respond as rapidly when reports were made said Maj. Gen. William Thurman, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 17, 2012 - A suicide bomber on Monday killed seven people and wounded an MP in an attack at an entrance to Baghdad's heavily secured Green Zone, where the Iraqi government is based, officials said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 15, 2014 - Raghda Yaqub was just days away from marriage, but a bombing in east Baghdad meant the 24-year-old Iraqi was buried wearing her wedding dress instead.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 30, 2013 - Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas in and around Baghdad, killed at least 47 people Monday, while at least three died in a blast against Sunni worshippers, officials said.
Toronto - Oct. 21, 2000 - A hovering spy craft only 23 centimetres across could soon be flying behind enemy lines to conduct surveillance, or darting about inside buildings to help police find hostage-takers.
Northstowe, United Kingdom (AFP) Sept 2, 2025 - The UK's newest town Northstowe is gradually taking shape amid cranes and scaffolding, a possible blueprint for others as the government seeks to tackle a desperate housing shortage.
Istanbul (AFP) Sept 19, 2016 - Turkish schools reopened Monday for the first time since July's attempted coup, following a summer which saw tens of thousands of teachers sacked or suspended over alleged links to the plotters or to Kurdish rebels.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 - A member of K-pop juggernaut BTS started his mandatory alternative service Friday, the group's agency told AFP, after SUGA was declared unfit for the regular military draft due to health reasons.
Saint-Petersburg (AFP) Sept 05, 2013 - The world's leading emerging economies urged the United States on Thursday to show caution in any tapering of its economic stimulus, as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a mini summit of the BRICS states ahead of the G20 meet.
Xiamen, China (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 - Leaders of the BRICS grouping of emerging economies said Monday they strongly deplore North Korea's latest nuclear test and hydrogen-bomb claim, which has overshadowed the five-nation group's annual summit.
Washington (UPI) Sept. 5, 2007 - Tensions between the United States, NATO and Russia over the Bush administration's plans to deploy BMD defenses in Central Europe got a lot worse this week.
