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UN says Iraq has executed 60 people this year

UN says Iraq has executed 60 people this year

Sameer Yacoub · October 19, 2014 4:54 pm

Suicide attack kills 9 in Iraq

Suicide attack kills 9 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · October 9, 2014 4:36 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 file photo, Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Syrian foreign ministry said Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 that Washington informed Damascus' envoy to the United Nations before launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, attacks that activists said inflicted casualties among jihadi fighters and civilians on the ground.(AP Photo)

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Islamic militants parade captured Iraqi soldiers

Sameer Yacoub · September 23, 2014 6:57 pm

Bombings, mortar fire kill 13 people in Iraq

Bombings, mortar fire kill 13 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · September 21, 2014 7:06 pm

This undated image posted on a militant website on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Islamic State group policemen standing guard in front of a police station in Nineveh province, Iraq. Arabic reads, "Nineveh province, Islamic State police station, monitoring bridges department." (AP Photo via militant website)

Bomb attacks kill at least 31 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · September 19, 2014 5:07 pm

Series of attacks kills at least 36 in Iraq

Series of attacks kills at least 36 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · September 18, 2014 7:49 pm

Attacks kill at least 11 in Iraq

Attacks kill at least 11 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · September 17, 2014 6:56 pm

Bombings kill 8 people in Iraq

Bombings kill 8 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · September 15, 2014 6:09 pm

A generator owner inspects his community generator that was destroyed after a bombing in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq in this Tuesday, July 29, 2014 file photo. (AP Photo, File)

Iraq PM orders halt to shelling of civilian areas

Sameer Yacoub · September 13, 2014 7:10 pm

Iraq car bomb attacks kill 9

Iraq car bomb attacks kill 9

Sameer Yacoub · September 11, 2014 2:43 pm

Civilians inspect the site a car bomb explosion in southeastern neighborhood of New Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Twin car bombs near pet and vegetable markets in Baghdad killed and wounded dozens of people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Attacks kill 30 people in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad

Sameer Yacoub · September 10, 2014 6:56 pm

Civilians gather at the site of a car bomb attack on Saadoun street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The bomb exploded in a commercial area in central Baghdad on Tuesday night, killing and wounding civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq attacks kill 17 as mass grave found

Sameer Yacoub · September 5, 2014 1:57 pm