Kirkuk carnage fuels calls for US exit
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More than 80 killed and 150 wounded in Iraq as debate intensifies in Washington over US withdrawal.
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BAGHDAD -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk yesterday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.
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Iraq&#39;s interim President Ghazi al-Yawar has accused the United States and Britain of making a huge mistake in dismantling the old security structures after toppling Saddam Hussein.
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A U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would push the country into a civil war that would damage the whole world, the emir of neighboring Kuwait said in comments published on Thursday.
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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BAGHDAD: At least 57 people were killed when US-led forces spearheaded overnight assaults on Iraqâs northern trouble spot of Tall Afar and the notorious insurgent bastion of Fallujah, officials said on Thursday.
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&quot;One thousand US casualties. Two Americans beheaded just this week. The Pentagon admits terrorists are pouring into Iraq. In the face of the Iraq quagmire, George Bush&#39;s answer is to run a juvenile and tasteless attack ad.
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Insurgents in Iraq threatened Saturday to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two US soldiers near Baghdad.
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Air and artillery strikes shook the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after US forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to leave.
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Heavy casualties are reported as US and Iraqi forces try to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control if the violence continues.
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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.
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IRAQ&#39;S interim Prime Minister yesterday delivered another blow to President Bush just a week before the US election when he blamed American-led forces for
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq condemned a US raid yesterday in Sadr City, Baghdad's Shi'ite slum district , in which American troops searching for Iranian-linked militants sparked a firefight that left 26 Iraqis dead.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned yesterday that a referendum planned this year on the status of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk should be canceled or else the outcome might widen the sectarian violence that has largely left the northern part of Iraq untouched.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- A string of seven explosions across the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk Sunday killed at least 27 people and wounded 97, police said.
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NAJAF, Iraq, August 25.âThe Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on Iraqis to go to the sacred city of Najaf to expel the US troops and save it from attacks by the occupying forces, stated Hamad Al-Jaffaf, head of his cabinet, on Al Arabiya television