Diplomatic convoys halted from Iraq's Green Zone
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The United States has barred diplomatic convoys from leaving Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" after a shooting involving the Blackwater security firm that drew protests from Iraq and prompted investigations, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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&quot;We announce that we are suspending our operations in Iraq. We want our driver to be returned safe and sound to his country and family.
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American diplomats resumed travel in convoys escorted by Blackwater USA, less than a week after Iraqâs government banned the security contractor.
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Mortars crashed Thursday into the heavily-guarded Green Zone in central Baghdad where government headquarters and Western embassies are located.
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United Nations food convoys for 260,000 people in Sudan's western Darfur region are suspended after attacks.
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A column of smoke rises after a powerful car bomb exploded at a checkpoint leading into the so-called &#39;Green Zone&#39; in Baghdad December 13, 2004.
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United Nations peacekeeping forces Friday halted a column of Ivory Coast government troops, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
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A visit to France by Iraq&#39;s interim president was called off yesterday amid unease between Paris and Baghdad. As France remained cautiously optimistic about the release of two kidnapped
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Oil exports from southern Iraq have grounded to a complete halt because of a spate of attacks on pipelines. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Iraqi official from South Oil Company said oil flows
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American convoys under the protection of Blackwater USA resumed on Friday, four days after the U.S. Embassy suspended all land travel by its diplomats and other civilian officials in response to the alleged killing of civilians by the security firm.
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Turkish construction company Vinsan said last night that it was halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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Iraq has halted oil exports to Austria's OMV, the leading oil and gas group in central Europe, to protest a deal with the self-ruled Kurdish region, a government official said Saturday.
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The Australian embassy in Baghdad is to be moved into the strife-torn city's heavily fortified Green Zone, the government said Tuesday.
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U.S. authorities raised the security alert in the heavily guarded Green Zone after an improvised bomb was found in front of a restaurant there, officials said Thursday. Twenty Iraqis were arrested in the north in operations against those suspected of planting bombs against U.S. and Iraqi targets.
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On Thursday, two bomb attacks killed up to six people in Baghdad&#39;s heavily fortified Green Zone. It was believed to be the most secure part of the city, housing the Iraqi interim government and the American and British embassies.
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Insurgents unleashed a pair of powerful car bombs Monday near the symbol of U.S. authority in Iraq &#151; the Green Zone, where the U.S. Embassy and key government offices are located &#151; and hotels occupied by hundreds of foreigners. Two other explosions brought the day's bombing toll to at least 24 dead and more than 100 wounded.
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Iraqâs Ministry of Interior is proposing a reshaping of how American diplomats in Iraq are protected. The U.S. Embassy said today that some Blackwater convoys had resumed.