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Edit The Independent 31 May 2016Iraqi troops retake key town from ISIS in Falluja offensive
Edit CNN 26 May 2016
(CNN)Iraqi security forces and supporting militias have retaken the key town of Karma from ISIS, the government's first significant victory in its push to reclaim Falluja, a spokesman for Iraq's Joint Operations Command said Thursday ... Read More ... U.N ... U.N.. Civilians at extreme risk ... Hussein was hanged for his role in the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqis were killed after a failed assassination attempt against the then-president ... ....
U.N. fears for 10,000 families trapped in ISIS-held Falluja as Iraq army advances
Edit CNN 24 May 2016
(CNN)The United Nations says it fears for the safety of an estimated 10,000 families trapped in Falluja as Iraqi forces press in to retake the city from ISIS ... And with tens of thousands of residents unable to flee the clutches of ISIS, the U.N ... JUST WATCHED ... Replay. More Videos ... Hussein was hanged for his role in the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqis were killed after a failed assassination attempt against the then-president ... ....
Suicide bombing kills 7 in Salahuddin
Edit Topix 23 May 2016
Baghdad, May 22 . A suicide bombing attack struck a popular market in Iraq's northern province of Salahuddin on Saturday evening, killing at least seven people and wounding 28 others, a police source told Xinhua. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt at a popular market in Dujail town in Salahuddin province in the evening, where a lot of people were shopping, the source said on condition of anonymity ... ....
Protest Casualties Higher; 65 Killed, 506 Wounded in Iraq
Edit Antiwar 22 May 2016
Protests in Baghdad led to heavy security throughout the city on Saturday, and many usually busy streets remained empty. Tahrir Square, where demonstrators have been gathering, has been closed off to them. Hospital sources say that 570 people were treated after the melee that broke out yesterday. That figure is up from the 106 wounded that was reported yesterday ... A suicide bomber in Dujail killed seven people and wounded 28 more....
Crowds mourn at funeral of 2 killed at Baghdad protest
Edit Boston Herald 22 May 2016
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of mourners gathered in Baghdad's Sadr City as families held funerals Saturday for two people killed in protests a day earlier ... Hasab was shot in the head. Mourners chanted against corruption and in support of government reform ... On Saturday, a suicide bombing in Dujail, 50 miles (80 kilometers) miles north of Baghdad targeting a government complex killed four and wounded 10, according to hospital and police officials....
Who is Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr?
Edit CNN 05 May 2016
(CNN)Muqtada al-Sadr isn't an ayatollah. He's not a general and he's not a politician, at least in the conventional sense. But with a single speech he can spark a protest that ends up in with hundreds of Iraqi Shiites storming their parliament ... and Iraqi soldiers ... JUST WATCHED ... U.S ... Hussein was hanged for his role in the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqis were killed after a failed assassination attempt against the then-president ... ....
A Monster of Our Creation
Edit Creators Syndicate 30 Jan 2016
Someone has to say it. The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy.". Instead, the rushed, illegal and unruly execution of a former U.S ... The trial dealt only with alleged crimes that occurred in the Shiite village of Dujail after an assassination attempt on Saddam ... ....
Iraq: Ethnic Fighting Endangers Civilians (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
Edit Public Technologies 13 Jan 2016
(Source. HRW - Human Rights Watch) ... The armed groups have killed, wounded, and abducted civilians and destroyed scores, if not hundreds, of homes and shops ... The Asayish on the hospital roof returned fire ... The lawyer said that on November 20, 2014, al-Bayati drove from Tuz to Dujail, just north of Baghdad, where the Nationality Department of Salah al-Din province had relocated after ISIS forces captured Tikrit, the provincial capital....
Why hasn't a single living Iraq vet received the Medal of Honor?
Edit CNN 12 Nov 2015
(CNN)On March 25, 2003, 1st Lt. Brian Chontosh and his platoon drove into an ambush of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fire while traveling on a highway toward Baghdad ... Read More. 100 photos. 100 moments from the Iraq War. 100 photos ... U.S ... Hide Caption. 1 of 100 ... Hussein was hanged for his role in the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqis were killed after a failed assassination attempt against the then-president....
Your letters: Iraq war, rise of IS
Edit Jakarta Post 02 Nov 2015
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal campaign in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the fall of the town to the Iranian army and Kurdish guerrillas ... On Dec ... A few weeks later, he was charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt against him ... On Nov ... Eddy Saf....
Finland suddenly top choice for Iraqi migrants
Edit WPXI 30 Sep 2015
Finland ... "People here are civilized, calm and it's quiet." ... More than 8,600 arrived in September alone ... Afandi, who left Dujail a month ago, said he didn't believe rumors he'd heard from other Iraqis about Finland paying 2,000 euros to each asylum-seeker upon arrival, and realized he was in for a long wait. He is Sunni and said he left the Shia town of Dujail to escape persecution and "troubles," but did not elaborate further ... ___ ... ....
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