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Remains 'likely' to be those of Iraq hostages

Monday June 22 2009

The remains of two British men kidnapped in Iraq two years ago are "highly likely" to be those of the security guards Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst .

Suicide attack kills 32 on Shi'ite pilgrim trail

Saturday February 14 2009

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims yesterday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite calendar, police said.

Ukraine offers Soviet-built satellite facility to Europe as tension mounts

Sunday August 17 2008

UKRAINE inflamed mounting East-West tensions by yesterday offering to allow a Soviet-built satellite facility to become part of the European missile defence system.

'It is difficult to describe how terrible it is - how badly we have been pushed back to the middle ages. Women are being denied their most basic rights'

In the name of religion: Iraq's female genocide

Monday April 28 2008

At first glance Shawbo Ali Rauf appears to be slumbering on the grass, her pale brown curls framing her face, her summer skirt spread about her. But the awkward position of her limbs and the splattered blood reveal the true horror of the scene.

A Mehdi army fighter takes aim in Basra. Credit: Essam Al Sudani, Getty Images

Iraqi leader faces disaster in massive Basra backlash

Friday March 28 2008

Iraq's US-backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed yesterday that security forces would battle Shia militia in Basra "to the end", despite huge demonstrations to demand his resignation.

Iraqi Mahdi Army fighters take position during clashes in the southern city of Basra. Credit: Essam Al-Sudani, Getty Images

Another tragedy in Iraq: now the Shia majority turn on each other

Thursday March 27 2008

A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.

US Vice President Dick Cheney, left, at a press conference in Baghdad with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Credit: Paul J. Richards, Getty Images

Cheney declares the war in Iraq a 'success'

Tuesday March 18 2008

US Vice-President Dick Cheney yesterday declared the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a suicide bomber killed 40 people.

Al-Qa'ida suicide bomb kills 40 Shia pilgrims

Monday February 25 2008

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a tent filled with Shia pilgrims walking to one of their holiest shrines south of Baghdad, killing 40 of them and wounding 60.

Shia call on Mehdi Army to take up arms again in Iraq

Thursday February 07 2008

In the alleys of the ancient district of al-Salaikh in Baghdad, a Shia family fought a fierce gun battle with Sunni militiamen who tried to stop them reoccupying their house from which they had been forced to flee months earlier.