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Panel faults Marine for response to Iraq killings
Dec 12, 2009 17:49 EST
Panel faults Marine officer for response to deaths of 24 Iraqis but opposes demotion. A military panel found that a Marine officer displayed substandard performance in his response to the deaths of 24 Iraqis but said he should maintain his rank.
Conflicting portraits emerge of accused Marine
Dec 03, 2009 07:12 EST
Lawyers give conflicting portraits of Marine accused of failing to investigate Iraqi killings. A prosecutor has argued that a Marine Corps officer facing demotion failed to fully disclose and investigate the killing of two dozen Iraqi men, women and children by Marines under his command.
Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive
Nov 25, 2009 12:28 EST
The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.
Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive
Nov 24, 2009 12:12 EST
The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.
Triple attacks kill 19 in western Iraqi city
Oct 10, 2009 20:00 EDT
Twin car bombs near government buildings and an apparently co-ordinated suicide attack at a hospital killed 19 people and wounded 80 in western Iraq Sunday, shattering a relative lull in violence.
Triple attacks kill 19 in western Iraqi city
Oct 10, 2009 20:00 EDT
Twin car bombs and an apparently coordinated suicide attack killed 19 people in Iraq's western city of Ramadi on Sunday, in an explosion of violence blamed on police collusion.
Trio of attacks kill 14 in western Iraqi city
Oct 10, 2009 20:00 EDT
Twin car bombs near government buildings and an apparently co-ordinated suicide attack at a hospital killed 19 people and wounded 80 in western Iraq Sunday, shattering a relative lull in violence.
Minibus bomb kills 9 in west Iraq: police
Oct 06, 2009 14:21 EDT
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A minibus bomb exploded at a market in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 31, a local official said.
Sixteen killed, 30 wounded in Iraq car bomb: doctor
Oct 05, 2009 20:00 EDT
A car bomb outside a Sunni mosque in a town near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed 16 people and wounded 30 on Tuesday around the time of evening prayers, a doctor told AFP.
Iraq car bomb kills seven at prayers
Oct 05, 2009 20:00 EDT
A car bomb outside a Sunni mosque in a town near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven people and wounded 29 on Tuesday around the time of evening prayers, doctors told AFP.
Suicide bomber kills at least 6 at Iraqi funeral
Oct 05, 2009 17:38 EDT
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber walked into an Iraqi funeral tent and blew himself up Monday, killing at least six mourners and wounding 15, Iraqi police said.
Suicide bomber kills five at Iraqi funeral
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
A suicide bomb attack at a funeral killed five people on Monday in western Iraq where a roadside bombing claimed a sixth life, local officials said.
Woman suicide bomber kills five at Iraqi funeral
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
A suicide bomb attack at a funeral killed five people on Monday in western Iraq where a roadside bombing claimed a sixth life, local officials said.
Suicide bomber kills five at Iraqi funeral
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
A suicide bomb attack at a funeral killed five people on Monday in western Iraq where a roadside bombing claimed a sixth life, local officials said.
Marines won't seek new charges in Iraq killings
Aug 28, 2009 19:49 EDT
Marines won't reinstate charges against officer in Haditha, Iraq, killings. The Marines won't reinstate charges against the highest-ranking officer accused of a crime in Iraq.
A day in the life of a Marine combat outpost
Aug 14, 2009 13:11 EDT
Time slowly goes by at southern Afghanistan combat outpost, while others fight Taliban. Cpl. Justin Thompson crawled out of his rat hole dug deep into a wind-beaten, barren hilltop. Stepping over mounds of protective sand bags, he watched the sun rise over the Now Zad valley, a Taliban stronghold.
Nine killed in Iraq violence
Aug 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
Nine people were killed, including a woman and six policemen, by violence across Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi police said.
Ten killed in Iraq violence
Aug 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
Ten people were killed, including a woman and six policemen, in violence across Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi police said.
Iraq's Kurds and Arabs struggle to defuse tensions
Aug 02, 2009 16:47 EDT
Iraq's Kurd and Arab leaders gather to defuse rising tensions in the north. Iraq's prime minister headed north Sunday to the self-ruled Kurdish region to defuse rising tensions and address a range of disputes that have poisoned relations and threatened to become a new source of the conflict for the battered country as U.S. forces increasingly disengage.
Latest in string of west Iraq bombings kills six
Aug 02, 2009 08:19 EDT
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb in a market killed six people on Sunday in western Iraq's Anbar province, a health official said, the latest in a string of attacks in the former Sunni Arab insurgent heartland.
