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3 hrs ago | The News-Gazette

St. Joseph group still collecting names of those in armed forces

Organization founder James Wasson said the group is still working to collect names of service members and honor them with a sign hung in their hometown.

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7 hrs ago | KMIZ

Sectarian violence erupts anew in Iraq

At least 15 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad and Anbar provinces, police said, in what appeared to be a continuation of sectarian violence.

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10 hrs ago | The Charlotte Observer

Gunmen kill 9 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

BAGHDAD Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

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14 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Gunmen raid home in Iraq, kill 5 people

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

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19 hrs ago | Financial Times

Iraq: A Kurd's eye view

Two British tour operators have launched holidays to northern Iraq, a region where the horrors of Saddam's tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope Bakhtyar Omar was showing me photographs of his family.

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Fri May 17, 2013

KTEN-TV Denison

Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq

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Iol.co.za

Blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43

People gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, about 50 km northeast of Baghdad, May 17, 2013.

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Times of Oman

Iraq bombings kill 34 people

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City May 16, 2013.

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Jerusalem Post

Syria's Nusra Front eclipsed by Iraq-based al-Qaida

The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader.

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Russia Taday

Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure, corruption, poverty

Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing and the people are forced to beg, as RT's Lucy Kafanov reported from the war-torn country.

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KRCR

Bombs in Iraq striking Sunnis kill dozens

Bombs struck Sunnis leaving a mosque and attending a funeral in Iraq, killing dozens on Friday as tensions between Sunnis and Shiites fester.

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Connecticut Post

Iraqis mourn 2 Shiite fighters killed in Syria

In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud , who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days before.

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WHBF-TV Rock Island

Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 21 dead

Jodi Arias returns to court for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

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Thu May 16, 2013

CNN

Tensions rise in Iraq as tribal fighters clash with army

Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi on April 26, 2013.

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NEWS.com.au

Iraq car bombs kill 12, wound 30

TWO car bombs have exploded in sprawling Shi'ite neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials say.

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Iol.co.za

US soldier gets life for Iraq deaths

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq, one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

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Denver Post

UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania

The U.N. says the first group of Iranian opposition group exiles has moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process.

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Connecticut Post

Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 17 dead

A man lies in a hospital bed after being injured in a car bomb blast in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

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KTMF

Car bombs in Iraq kill 12, wound 30

Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said.

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Jerusalem Post

Three market blasts rock Baghdad, kill 14

Three blasts hit markets in Shi'ite districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, police and medical officials said.

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