Bombs kill 5 at house tied to Iraq Sunni candidate (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - Several bombs exploded Sunday near a house linked to a prominent Sunni figure who ran in this month's parliamentary elections in Iraq, killing five people and wounding 26 others, a police official said. |
Iraq PM slams UN over inaction on vote fraud charge (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 12:42 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sharply criticised the UN on Sunday over its inaction on his vote fraud allegations, after results showed his bloc finished second in Iraq's general election. |
Iraq PM criticises UN over inaction on vote fraud charges (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:39 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose bloc came second in Iraq's general election, sharply criticised the UN envoy to Baghdad on Sunday over his inaction on vote fraud allegations. |
Experts call for Gulf nuclear body to include Iran, Iraq (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:39 AM PDT AFP - Arab and international experts at a meeting in Manama on Sunday proposed the establishment of a regional atomic energy body to include Iran and Iraq alongside the Arab monarchies of the Gulf. |
Iraq militants free kidnapped US man, claiming prisoner swap (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:31 AM PDT AFP - A Shiite militant group freed a US army contractor two months after he was kidnapped in Iraq, claiming Sunday he was exchanged for its members jailed in US and Iraqi custody. |
Family lauds release of Iraqi-American contractor (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:48 AM PDT AP - Issa Salomi's first call home was to his 27-year-old son Roger. He said memories of the birth of the oldest of his four boys and his son's childhood sustained him after he was kidnapped in Baghdad in January. |
Saddam fugitive urges Arabs to talk to Iraq "resistance" (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:21 AM PDT AFP - Saddam Hussein's former number two, the fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, appealed to Arab states to talk to "resistance" groups he said were Iraqis' sole representatives, in an audiotape aired Sunday. |
Bomb targeting Qaeda rival kills three in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:10 AM PDT AFP - Bombs at the house of a prominent militia leader opposed to Al-Qaeda killed three people, part of a spate of violence that left six dead across Iraq on Sunday, security officials said. |
Party official among 6 killed by bombs in western Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:11 AM PDT Reuters - A series of explosions in western Iraq killed six people on Sunday, including an official of a political faction in former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's electoral coalition, police said. |
Three killed, at least 11 wounded in Iraq bombings (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 02:47 AM PDT AFP - Bombs at the house of a prominent militia leader opposed to Al-Qaeda killed three people and wounded at least 11 in west Iraq on Sunday, security officials said. |