Iraq announces night-time curfew on Baghdad
314553
Iraq&#39;s interim government has announced that a night time curfew will be imposed on Baghdad and surrounding areas until further notice amid escalating violence in the country.
493887
Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in Kirkuk on Saturday, ordering residents to stay in their homes in an effort to put down violence that has swelled in the north amid efforts to rein in bloodshed in Baghdad.
31745
Iraq will close its borders with Iran and Syria for up to three days as part of its new security plan for Baghdad.
531925
Authorities cracking down on violence in southern Nigeria&#39;s oil capital Port Harcourt have extended for the second time a curfew in the city.
78329
Baghdad authorities on Monday lifted a three-day curfew imposed on the city after the worst bombing since the U.S. invasion, but nerves were on edge amid fears of further violence.
655381
BAGHDAD -- As if the daily struggle to dodge bullets and bombings is not enough, many Iraqis now face a freezing winter shivering by candlelight as persistent attacks keep the power out for more than 12 hours a day.
708328
Iraqi forces will expand their security operation into eastern Baghdad &#151; including Shiite militia strongholds &#151; the Defense Ministry said Friday, a day after a barrage of coordinated attacks in those areas killed 64 people and wounded 286.
122781
KATHMANDU, SEPT 1: An indefinite curfew was imposed on Wednesday in the Nepalese capital after protests broke out following the gruesome killing of 12 Nepali hostages in Iraq.
213251
The government said Wednesday it would ban travel between provinces and extend the hours of a curfew as part of heightened security before Iraq's weekend elections.
599542
A curfew and weapons ban was in effect and Shiite pilgrims were evacuated from the holy city of Karbala after fighting there killed 26 people and wounded 33 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
23613
Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the north sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
68395
Police ordered a curfew Tuesday in Shiite holy city of Karbala and told more than 1 million pilgrims to leave after two days of violence claimed at least 27 lives during a religious festival. More than 100 people were wounded.
238949
The Nepalese capital Kathmandu is under a curfew, which the government imposed after the city erupted in violent protests against the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq.
306104
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has closed Baghdad&#39;s international airport and the country&#39;s borders with Syria and Jordan, and declared a curfew in rebel- held Fallujah
144677
Iraq announced plans on Tuesday to close its borders with Iran and Syria and lengthen a night curfew on vehicles in new emergency measures to try to curb unrelenting violence in Baghdad.
555628
With violence down in Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan out into communities on the rim of the capital to shut down car bomb factories, which remain a threat despite a recent drop in execution-style killings in the city, the U.S. military said Monday.
220984
Iraqi and U.S. troops fanned out across the volatile Iraqi capital of Baghdad, enforcing a tough curfew until early Sunday in a tightly packed city living with daily insurgent strikes and Shiite-Sunni sectarian killings.