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Volvo Trucks inaugurates Iraq service centres
Volvo Trucks has inaugurated joint service centres in the Iraq cities of Baghdad and Basra, which in collaboration with local country distributor ZamZam Spring will service Volvo Trucks as well as Mack Trucks. The service centres were announced in 2012, and in little over a year Volvo has built two of the largest and most advanced service centres in the Middle East, in an environment that has ...
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Bombs in Iraq Kill 7
Police say Monday's bomb exploded in a restaurant in the town of Taji, about 20 kilometers north of the capital. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Monday's bombing comes a day after car bombs across southern Iraq, and a shooting in the country's north killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more. The blasts Sunday targeted mainly ...
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Bomb blast kills seven civilians in Iraq
Iraqi officials say a bomb left inside a restaurant north of Baghdad has killed at least seven civilians and wounded 25 others.Two police officers say the restaurant is located in the town of Taji, serving travellers on the main highway that links Baghdad to northern provinces. They added that two women and a 12-year old child were among the dead in Monday's explosion.A medical official ...
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Iraqs hopes rest on young shoulders
Iraq will be fielding a number of young attacking players in their line-up and they have the potential to provide a real shock to Australia at ANZ Stadium on Tuesday ...
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Iraq soccer team not short on motivation
They may be out of World Cup contention and fielding a severely understrength side but don't expect Iraq to be short on motivation. Australia face the world No.98 side in their crucial World Cup qualifier at ANZ Stadium on Tuesday. Sitting at the bottom of the qualifying group Iraq are out of the mix for Brazil and playing for little more than pride. A win for the Socceroos however, ...
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Risks and rewards offered by no-fly zone in Syria considered in context of Iraq effort in 1992
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts. But experts say the White House is looking at the wrong Iraq war, especially as the U.S. reluctantly considers a no-fly zone over Syria to ...
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Dozens dead in spate of bomb attacks across Iraq
A blistering string of apparently co-ordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens on Sunday, spreading fear throughout the county in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a US-led ...
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30 killed in Iraq attacks
Most of the attacks occurred in the cities with a high concentration of Shia Muslims. These included the cities of Kut, Najaf, Mahmoudiya, Nasiriya and Basra.Five people were killed in Basra city when two car bombs went off almost at the same time in a market in the city centre. Another car bomb killed at least seven people in the holy city of Najaf. In Kut, two car bombs targeted an industrial ...
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Al-Qaeda’s Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight
File - Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal ...
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Series of attacks kills 51 in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens on Sunday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a U.S.-led ...
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23 killed in series of bombings shootings in Iraq
Up to 23 people were killed and 133 wounded in a series of car bomb attacks and shootings in Iraq on Sunday, amid growing sectarian tension in the country that pushed the UN envoy to Iraq to call on Iraqi leaders to hold dialogue to solve their disputes in order to avoid slipping the country into widespread killings.Two car bombs went off in al-Arousah Square in the center of Basra, some 550 km ...
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