Insurgency leaves Mosul ill-prepared for elections
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With only two months to go until Iraq&#39;s general elections, the local government has yet to devise a plan for registering voters in one of the country&#39;s largest cities.
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US and Iraqi troops were targeting groups of insurgents in Mosul to gain control of the northern Iraqi city, the military said. The assault on Mosul, Iraq&#39;s third-largest city, follows
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As Iraqis prepare for a democratic vote, the U.S. is still struggling to prevent insurgents from destroying it
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Gunmen have bombed two churches in the tense Iraqi city of Mosul, fuelling fears of ethnic and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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Separate attacks in Mosul, Iraq, over two days also wounded eight, underscoring security concerns in the country's third-largest city with just 18 days left before nationwide elections take place.
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By targeting election workers in Baghdad and Shia Muslims in southern Iraq, insurgents yesterday struck at the two pillars of next month&#39;s national elections: the logistical
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces flushed out insurgent holdouts in this ravaged city yesterday, while the interim Iraqi government dispatched reinforcements to the northern city of Mosul, where police control has crumbled in the face of guerrilla attacks.
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Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor&#39;s guards, the US military said.
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American troops and Iraqi security forces launched a major operation to regain control of Mosul yesterday, after a week of lawlessness which saw large parts of Iraq&#39;s third city fall under the control of militants determined to open a new front in the
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MOSUL, Iraq - âThey come up in their Opelâs, attack and leave,â says a business owner in the heart of Mosul, explaining how insurgents operate in Iraqâs northern capital.
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Iraqâs interim government Saturday vowed to hold national elections Jan. 30, despite rising demands to postpone the vote because of the countryâs violent insurgency.
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Election workers and U.S.-trained security troops have become Iraq's most hunted, facing slaughter by insurgents out to ruin this month's landmark vote.
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MOSUL, Iraq Gunmen bombed two churches in the tense city of Mosul on Tuesday, stoking fears of ethnic and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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Election centers have been bombed,  candidates and electoral officials threatened and even killed.  With only a week to go, intimidation is turning Iraq's landmark  polls into a new kind of secret ballot.
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Sunni refugees displaced from Fallujah are struggling to come to terms with Iraq's post-election political reality.
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The Iraqi government sent reinforcements to the countryâs third-largest city, Mosul, today, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that US officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in Fallujah - now said to be under 80% US control.
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Friday&#39;s battle for the Iraqi city of Samarra is the opening salvo in what will be a campaign over the next several months to &quot;take back&quot; more than a dozen Iraq cities where insurgents hold sway, in time for country&#39;s January elections