Sep
27

Iraq – Suspect arrested in Iraq taekwondo team murders (USA Today)

Suspect arrested in Iraq taekwondo team murders (USA Today)
U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested a suspect in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi taekwondo team, the U.S. military said Sunday.

U.S. Drone Strikes Office of Sunni Party in Iraq s North (New York Times)
The American military said it was not clear why the small remotely operated plane fell from the sky in the Ghizlani neighborhood in west Mosul.

Terrorist attacks across Iraq target cops (Press TV)
At least one Iraqi police member has been killed and six others injured in the latest spate of terrorist assaults targeting security forces across conflict-stricken Iraq.

Suspect arrested in Iraqi taekwondo team murders (AP via Yahoo! News)
U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested a suspect in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi taekwondo team, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Christian doctor kidnapped in northern Iraq: police (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) – An armed gang kidnapped a Christian doctor from her home near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overnight as her four children looked on, police said on Sunday.

U.S. drone crashes in northern Iraq (Air Force Times)
BAGHDAD A U.S. military drone crashed Saturday in northern Iraq, hitting a regional office of Iraq s largest Sunni political party in an area that remains an insurgent stronghold, an American military official said.The unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle crashed into the local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Mosul, an area the U.S. military has called the last stronghold of al-Qaida in …

Al-Qaeda attempted to kill top Iraqi Shia leader (Press TV)
Iraqi security forces have reportedly thwarted an assassination attempt targeting the leader of Iraq’s largest Shia party, Ammar al-Hakim.

Iraq: 8 new water projects in Basra (MENAFN)
Iraq: 8 new water projects in Basra