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Voter apathy and concerns about violence mark Iraq's first provincial elections in a decade
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 7 months agoIraqis began voting for the first time in a decade Saturday to select new provincial council...
A boycott call and security concerns mar Iraq's first provincial elections in a decade
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 7 months agoBaghdad’s streets were nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first...
Chinese companies win licensing bids to explore Iraq oil and gas fields
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 2 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday...
Chinese companies win more bids to explore for Iraq oil and gas
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 2 months agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) -Chinese companies won five more bids to explore Iraqi oil and gas fields, Iraq's...
Despite public anger, no progress in Iraq political deadlock
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoWeeks after followers of an influential cleric stormed parliament, Iraq’s political crisis shows no...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoWhen a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week,...
Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 year agoWhen U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under...
Iraq court sentences 5 people to life in prison in killing of US citizen, officials say
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 10 months agoAn Iraqi criminal court convicted five men and sentenced them to life in prison on Thursday in the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said. Stephen Edward Troell, 45, ...
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 months agoPowerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political...
Iran officially in five days of mourning - but President Raisi's opponents celebrate his death with...
Sky News via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 months agoThe death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has sparked differing reactions in Iran. While the...