Iraq police unit pulled from duty
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi authorities said yesterday that they have suspended an entire brigade of as many as 1,200 police officers for suspected connections to a mass kidnapping and murder.
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Iraqi officials have ordered police to round up the indigent from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers
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Weapons were stolen from a Samarra police station before it was blown up and the city&#39;s top cop quit. BAGHDAD -- Guerrillas carried out a series of raids in the city of Samarra yesterday, stealing weapons
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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A humanitarian agency with a long history of work in Iraq has ended its operations in the war-torn nation after its leader was abducted.
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Britain announced on Wednesday the withdrawal of almost one quarter of its troops from Iraq in coming months, just as thousands of additional U.S. soldiers were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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At least 14 Iraqi police go missing north of Baghdad, as militants say they kidnapped 18 in the same area.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent suspends operations in Baghdad a day after almost 30 people are kidnapped.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired the Basra police chief Monday over his force's failure to stop weekend attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq's second-largest city, police said.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen killed 52 people during a major Shi'ite religious festival.
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Care International suspended operations in Iraq today after gunmen seized the British woman who ran the humanitarian organisationâs work in the country.
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British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday night in another step towards handing over the province to Iraqi control and paving the way for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is pulling out of Iraq because of escalating violence in the country and danger to its staff.
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British troops withdraw from Basra Palace, handing control of base to Iraqi forces.
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra last night in another step toward handing over the province to Iraqi control and preparing for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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Care International suspended operations in Iraq yesterday after gunmen seized the woman who ran the humanitarian organization&#39;s work in the country.
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British troops withdrew on Saturday from radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's main office in the southern city of Basra a day after occupying the building and seizing an arms cache in fighting that killed three and wounded five, the British military and police said.