Briton freed from Iraqi captivity to go home soon
AP - 1 hour 5 minutes agoA Briton released this week after more than two years as a hostage in Iraq is in good health and preparing to come home soon, a British spokesman said Thursday.
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Anbar bombings raise fears of renewed Iraqi violence
McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 30, 12:27 pm ETBAGHDAD, Iraq — Bombers struck Iraq's western Anbar province Wednesday in an apparent ambush of local leaders, killing at least 24 people and wounding 58 others, including the provincial governor whose goal is an economic renaissance in territory once controlled by insurgents.
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Bomb blasts outside government building kill at least 24 in Iraqi city of Ramadi
Washington Post - Thu Dec 31, 12:00 am ETBAGHDAD -- A car bomb and a suicide bomber struck a government building in the city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding the governor of Anbar province, according to Iraqi police officials and witnesses.
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Iraqi militants free Brit after 2½ years
New York Post - Thu Dec 31, 6:37 am ETA British hostage was released in Iraq yesterday after 2½ terrifying years in captivity -- and thought he was about to be executed when his captors arrived to set him free. Peter Moore, 36 -- believed to be the only prisoner in a group of five to ...
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Oil jumps after Iranians seize Iraqi oil field
Park Hills Daily Journal - 1 hour 49 minutes agoNEW YORK (AP) — Crude prices rose Friday after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field.
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13 Iraqi policemen killed in bomb attacks - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times
Army Times - Wed Dec 30, 9:11 am ETBAGHDAD — Staggered explosions killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and injured the governor of Anbar on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, the worst violence in months to hit the western province as it struggles to stamp out the remnants of the al-Qaida insurgency.
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Guardsmen foot eye surgery bill for Iraqi child - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times
Army Times - Wed Dec 30, 10:10 am ETCHARLESTON, W.Va. — A wrong turn directed West Virginia soldiers to helping an Iraqi baby see for the first time.
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Oil prices jump after Iranians seize Iraqi oil field
Asbury Park Press - Wed Dec 30, 5:25 pm ETNEW YORK — Crude prices spiked briefly Friday after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field.
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An Iraqi Shiite looks back on the revolution that was
Los Angeles Times - Wed Dec 30, 3:23 am ETHaidar Turfi tries to pinpoint when things went wrong, when the followers of Mohammed Sadeq Sadr and his son Muqtada began to splinter, and notoriety replaced idealism. He still has it: the stethoscope that heard the last heartbeats of the grand ayatollah.
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Lukoil inks deal to develop Iraqi oil field
The Washington Times - Wed Dec 30, 6:17 am ETBAGHDAD | A consortium led by Russia's private oil giant Lukoil on Tuesday signed an initial deal with Iraq to develop one of its biggest oil fields in an agreement that is key to the war-ravaged nation's efforts to boost output, considered crucial to postwar reconstruction efforts. Lukoil partnered with Norway's Statoil ASA to bid to develop the 12.88-billion-barrel West Qurna Phase 2 field ...
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Lukoil-led group signs deal for prized Iraqi oilfield
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 29, 7:35 am ETA group led by Russian energy firm Lukoil signed an initial deal on Tuesday to develop Iraq's West Qurna Phase Two oilfield, as its partner in the venture Statoil said it had increased its stake.
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Iraqi militants release British hostage held for two years
Courier-Post - Wed Dec 30, 11:12 am ETA British man held hostage in Iraq for more than two years was released on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
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Syria playing in Iraqi politics
UPI - Tue Dec 29, 4:14 pm ETDAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Damascus is moving to ally with leading Iraqi figures in defiance of official condemnation for deadly Baghdad attacks as Iraq prepares to pick a new government.
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Sonangol Signs Initial Pacts for Two Iraqi Oil Fields
Rigzone - Wed Dec 30, 10:42 am ETSociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola, better known as Sonangol, signed Wednesday in Baghdad two initial deals to develop Qaiyarah and Najmah oil fields in northern Iraq, officials said.
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Angolan Oil Company To Develop Two Iraqi Oil Fields
INO News - Wed Dec 30, 12:42 pm ET(RTTNews) - Angola's state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has signed deals with Iraqi oil ministry to develop two oil fields in Nineveh province, known as one of the most dangerous regions of the country.
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Gunmen kill Iraqi militia guards at checkpoint
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 29, 10:18 am ETGunmen opened fire on a checkpoint near Baghdad on Tuesday, killing four members of an Iraqi government-backed militia, a militia leader and officials said.
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Little peace or goodwill for Baghdad's Christians
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