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A roadside bomb killed six Shiite Muslim pilgrims Friday during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday, officials said.
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces bolstered their positions at a well in the East Maysan oil field after sending troops across the Iraqi border two days ago in a move that’s caused a political standoff between the two countries.
BAGHDAD -- Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries' disputed border, Iraq's government said yesterday, prompting a protest from Baghdad and providing a
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Security and political progress in Iraq are included in the foreign policy interests of the government in Damascus, the Syrian president told Iraqi leaders.
Iran has rejected Iraqi demands that it withdraw its soldiers from an oil well, the ownership of which is disputed by Baghdad. Iran's Armed Forces Command issued a statement on Saturday making clear that, in Tehran's view, there had been no incursion into Iraq as the oil well is within Iranian borders. "Our forces are on our own soil and, based on the known international borders, this well ...
BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government on Friday condemned a reported cross-border raid by Iranian soldiers who allegedly raised their flag at an Iraqi oil filed near the border.
Crude prices rose Friday after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field. Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Mahmoud said Iranian soldiers surrounded a well in the al-Fakkah oil field, only 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Iraqi troops massed Saturday near an oil well on the border in a standoff with Iranian forces that seized control of the site...
BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Two Iraqi government officials said Friday Iranian security forces took control of an oil well in Iraq's Maysan province.
Insurgents were able to use a mass-market software program to view live feeds from U.S. military Predator drones monitoring targets in Iraq, a U.S. official indicated to CNN Thursday.
Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign minister says.
BAGHDAD — Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday. The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Irania...
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied a well in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.
UPDATED: BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday. The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of ...
Massive bombings and scattered daily violence won't impede American troops from leaving Iraq by the end of 2011, the country's prime minister said Wednesday.
(RTTNews) - Iranian troops have entered southern Iraq and seized an oil well located inside the Iraqi side of a disputed border between the two countries, Iraqi officials said Friday.
