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Gunmen overtake town as clashes continue in Iraq
Gunmen reportedly overtook a town north of Baghdad as battles continued to rage Thursday between Iraqi government forces and Sunni fighters. The violence began Tuesday after security forces stormed a Sunni Muslim protest encampment in Hawija, spurring...
Tags: Elections, Nouri Maliki, Politics, Islam, Wars and Interventions
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Iraq fighting leaves at least 41 more people dead
BEIRUT — At least 41 people died Thursday on the third straight day of pitched fighting between Iraqi security forces and Sunni Arabs, as Prime Minister Nouri Maliki warned the country was in crisis. The national police battled back Sunni fighters...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Mosul (Iraq), Baghdad (Iraq), Government, Elections
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Boston bombing amputees face tough, costly recovery
BOSTON — Tammy Duckworth still remembers the anger she felt when well-wishers offered encouragement after she lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down over Iraq in 2004. "I thought, how the heck is my life ever going to get back to normal?...
Tags: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Veterans Affairs, Military Equipment, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance
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Iraqis vote in provincial elections amidst angst, ire
BEIRUT — After a week of violence, Iraq held its first provincial elections Saturday since the departure of U.S. troops last year. Results are not expected for several days, but the conditions under which the vote was held showed that little has...Tags: International Military Interventions, Voting, China Earthquake (2010), Baghdad (Iraq), Elections
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Step toward possible military intervention in Syria
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals...
Tags: Carl Levin, David Petraeus, Defense, United Nations, Wars and Interventions
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Al Qaeda group in Iraq unites with extremists in Syria
BEIRUT— An Al Qaeda-affiliated militant group in Iraq has united with one of Syria’s most-feared Islamic opposition groups in a vivid display of how the two-year Syrian civil war has emboldened extremists across the two countries’...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Al-Qaeda, Bashar Assad, Government, National Government
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The story behind the photo: A U.S. Marine salutes the flag in Iraq
FrameworkAs U.S. and allied forces advanced toward Baghdad 10 years ago, a military public affairs sergeant snapped a photograph of a Marine saluting the flag at sunset at a desert airfield in southern Iraq. Taken on April 3, 2003, it was one of many images... -
Afghan bomb cost Marine his legs, but not his spirit
SAN DIEGO — Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Zambon was in Afghanistan, on his fourth combat deployment as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, when he took a step and heard the ominous click. "I remember flying through the air and coming down on my...
Tags: Eglin Air Force Base, Emergency Incidents, Climbing, Explosions, Afghanistan
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Maliki resists Kerry's call to halt flow of Iranian arms to Syria
BAGHDAD – Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Sunday to stop Iran from flying arms across Iraqi territory to the beleaguered Syrian regime, but found him unwilling to give ground. In a visit to Baghdad that...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Elections, Government, Mahmoud Abbas, Nouri Maliki
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Mothers aid military personnel in the names of their fallen sons
They didn't know each other before the war. But loss united them, and friendship helps sustain them. "Every one of us wants our child to be remembered," said Sue Pollard, who, like her friend Debi Win'E, lost a son in Iraq. "Our main thing is to do...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Armed Conflicts, Human Interest, Belief and Faith, World War I (1914-1918)
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Letters: WMD intelligence -- errors or lies?
Re "The what if's of Iraq," Opinion, March 19 Max Boot claims that the justification of ending Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program for going to war with Saddam Hussein was an error, not a lie. He then assigns much of the blame for the ongoing...
Tags: Elections, Manufacturing and Engineering, United Nations, Wars and Interventions, White House
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Garcetti has a side commitment: the U.S. Naval Reserve
If he manages to get elected, Eric Garcetti may be the first mayor of Los Angeles who slips away for a little clandestine activity at a secret locale — and doesn't mind if his constituents find out about it. The city councilman and mayoral...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, U.S. Army, World War I (1914-1918), Elections, Immigration
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