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WesternZagros starts Garmian drilling program and provides Kurdamir-3 update
WesternZagros Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WZR) has started its latest Garmian Block drilling program in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Mil Qasim Upper Bakhtiari-1 well was spudded on May 19, 2013. This is the first of a planned three-well program to test the potential of the shallow Upper Bakhtiari Formation. With the two deeper Hasira-1 and Baram-1 well included, this is also the first of ...
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Iraq At least 12 dead in bombings as sectarian violence continues
An Iraqi looks at dead sheep killed in two roadside bombs that detonated in a livestock market in the northern city of Kirkuk, on May 21, 2013. (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty ...
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Iraq Reopens Russian Arms Deal Probe
DUBAI, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's Central Criminal Court has resumed an investigation into officials suspected of corruption in a $4.2 billion deal to purchase Russian weapons, the head of the Iraqi Parliament's Integrity Committee, Bahaa al-Araji, said on Tuesday."The investigation will go ahead. The witnesses and suspects will give evidence, and Defense Ministry experts will ...
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The Tech Innovator Who Almost Killed Saddam Hussein
Doron Kempel, CEO of SimpliVity. Photo by Michael Prince for Forbes. The sun was rising hot and full as members of Israel's most elite special forces unit approached a crowd in the middle of the desert. Disguised as Iraqis, the soldiers had landed two days earlier in helicopters hundreds of miles away and traveled in jeeps to this desolate outpost on one of the most controversial, risky ...
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Wave of Violence Continues in Iraq
New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least seven people and wounded more than 60 others. Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one ...
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Fresh bombings in Iraq kill 13
At least 13 people have been killed in new bomb attacks in Iraq, a day after a wave of bombings across the country left at least 70 people dead. Two car bombs hit the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, a device went off in a cattle market in Kirkuk, and a suicide bomber struck in the town of Tarmiyah. The spate of bombings has marked the period as one of the most violent in Iraq in recent months. ...
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Attacks Kill 7 in Iraq
Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one person. Both cities are in an area that Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous ...
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Five Iraqi blasts kills eight
FIVE bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month. In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen and a suicide bombing killed three soldiers and wounded at least seven, security and medical officials said. Two car bombs ...
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Officials More attacks in Iraq 7 killed
A police officer says a suicide blast at a checkpoint, followed by militants who opened fire at Iraqi troops, has killed three soldiers in Tarmiyah. The town is 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of ...
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Attacks in Iraq kill 7 including 3 soldiers
A new wave of attacks struck war- torn Iraq on Tuesday morning and killed at least seven people, including three soldiers, while 75 others were injured in the violence, police said.Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in an attack by an armed group at a base of the Iraqi army in Tarmiya, some 30 km north of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...
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Iraqi PM vows to review security strategy as sectarian death toll rises
An Iraqi man smokes a cigarette in front of a burnt vehicle at the site of a car bombing at a market in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City. AFP Photo New bombings have targeted two Shi'ite mosques in the Iraqi city of Al-Hila, located south of Baghdad, as ...
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Iraq bombings kill five wound 69
FOUR bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month. Two car bombs exploded on Tuesday in a Turkmen Shi'ite area of Tuz Khurmatu, a town in Salaheddin province, killing three people, wounding 44 and causing extensive damage to 10 houses, police and a doctor said. And two ...
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22 people killed in spate of bombings in Iraq
The death toll in a series of car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and in the southern city of Basra on Monday rose to 22, with at least 137 people wounded, the police ...
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Fresh surge of Iraq violence kills 95 bringing months toll to 366
International News: Baghdad: A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in ...
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Damac building $100m residential tower in Baghdad
DAMAC Properties is building a $100m residential tower in Baghdad. The company, which has completed 37 buildings and has a further 66 currently under construction across sevens countries in the Middle East and North Africa, has begun work on Princess Tower – a 26-storey, luxury furnished apartment complex in the heart of the Iraqi capital. The project is the first stage of a long-term ...
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Scores die in Iraqi bomb attacks
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria’s civil war next door. The latest spiral of violence — which has claimed more than 240 lives over the past week — ...
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‘War on mosques’ now daily part of Iraq strife
Ihsan al-Shammari told AFP. "It is a war on mosques." Iraqis have lived with near-daily violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, and militants still attack both security forces and civilians almost each day. Now, they have set their sites on mosques as well. In one of the deadliest attacks, two bombs exploded near ...
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Ten Years After US Invades Iraq Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran. All from the skies, of course. Boots on the ground have not served ...
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12 kidnapped policemen killed in western Iraq
Twelve kidnapped policemen were killed and four were wounded in overnight clashes between the abductors and the Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, a provincial police source said on Monday.The Iraqi army and police forces carried out a joint operation on Sunday night in the desert area between Baghdad and Jordan to free kidnapped policemen, and the troops clashed with their kidnappers, the ...
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