Top Iraq official shot and killed
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Gunmen shoot and kill a senior official in Iraq's communication ministry on his way to work.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed a police  captain at a checkpoint and gunned down an Iraqi National Guard  officer in a billiard hall in scattered violence against U.S.  forces and their allies in northern Iraq on Friday.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination for eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people on Tuesday in an escalating  campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election.
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A New York Times reporter is shot dead in Baghdad, the day after two Reuters employees were killed.
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An Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press was shot and killed in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. news organization said.
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BAGHDAD A senior Oil Ministry official was killed Wednesday by gunmen on his way to work, the ministry&#39;s spokesman said. The official, Hussein Ali al-Fattal, director general of the ministry&#39;s oil byproducts
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An Iraqi journalist was shot to death while she was waiting for a taxi Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, according to police and her news agency.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on his way to work on Monday, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead a top women's affairs official in Afghanistan and two apparent suicide attackers were killed in a blast that wounded a foreign soldier.
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Gunmen shot and killed a senior official from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said.
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Iraqi police have wounded the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed his top aide, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN Thursday. The spokesman said Iraqi police have the body of the aide but he would not comment on if Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured. The U.S. military has so far made no comment on the report. CNN has not independently confirmed the report.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on  Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30  election.
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An Iraqi police colonel was gunned down near his home in Afak on Sunday, marking the third government official killed in the Iraqi Shiite town in five weeks, an Interior Ministry official said.
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A 35-year-old Iraqi journalist was shot to death Sunday on her way home from work in Mosul, the second female journalist to be killed in the northern city this month, officials said.
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Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy  police chief outside his home in southern Baghdad on Monday, a  police source said.
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The group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Thursday it carried out a shooting attack that killed a US civilian official near Baghdad&#39;s Green Zone government compound.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination.