Optimism Grows in Iraq as Daily Life Improves
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing and confidence in the government growing. The progress is astonishing, but can it last? mehr…

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An explosion rocked Tuesday a municipal building in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighbourhood, killing six Iraqis, two US soldiers and two civilian US Embassy employees.
The blast occurred during a meeting of the district advisory council, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
US troops detained a suspect in connection with the attack, as he was captured “fleeing the [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 21 (KUNA) — Multi-National Division (MND) soldiers in Baghdad killed 17 militants in separate missions, a statement said Monday.
An MND statement here said soldiers killed 12 militants in two separate incidents in Al-Adhamiya, while five others were killed in Sadr city as they were transporting weapons in the city.
The MND also unveiled that [...]

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Unauthorized vehicles will be banned in Baghdad from 5 a.m. to midnight on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the city’s capture by U.S. troops.
The decision by the Iraqi military command for Baghdad was announced on Iraqi state TV.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the [...]

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NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Aides to Muqtada al-Sadr say the anti-American Shiite cleric is calling off a mass rally in Baghdad Wednesday.
Iraqi security forces are blocking al-Sadr’s followers from traveling to the capital from the southern Shiite heartland where he enjoys wide support.
Two aides in al-Sadr’s office in the holy city of Najaf told The [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 8 (KUNA) — A US soldier serving with the Multi-National Force (MNF) was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated hitting his vehicle, according to a statement by the coalition force on Monday.
The MNF said the soldier, a member of the battalion of the coalition force in Baghdad, was killed in a blast [...]

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BAGHDAD, March 30 (KUNA) — A US soldier died of wounds he sustained from a bomb blast in northern Baghdad on Sunday, bringing to 35 number of American forces killed in March this year.
The US army said the soldier, fighting with the MNF-Baghdad division, suffered from serious wounds he sustained when a bomb exploded near [...]

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BAGHDAD, March 30 (KUNA) — The Iraqi government decided to lift the curfew in Baghdad as of Monday morning, the operations command of Baghdad Law Enforcement Plan said this evening.
The decision takes effect as of 6:00 am Monday, a senior police officer told KUNA here.
However, the curfew will remain in place as per vehicles only [...]

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Americans Caught in Crossfire between Radicals and Iraqi Government
With its swimming pools, manicured gardens and friendly Iraqis, Baghdad’s Green Zone was long seen as a luxurious, high-security enclave for Americans and their friends in a country rocked by violence. Now the oasis of security is under siege.
Sarah is not the type of woman who loses [...]

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BAGHDAD, March 28 (KUNA) — Seven US soldiers were injured in two separate attacks by al-Mahdi Army militia men in the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, the US Army said in statement on Friday.
The militia mounted 11 mortar shell attacks yesterday, the statement noted.
Three attacks had targeted two US Army headquarters and a joint security center [...]

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