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2008-11-13 18:44

Music returns to Baghdad as vice squad enforcers retreat (AFP)

An Iraqi sits outside a music store which also hires out musicians to play at all types of festivities in central Baghdad in October 2008. Persecuted for the past four years by Sunni and Shiite Muslim radicals who declared their art as 'immoral', the musicians who play at festivities are returning to their profession in Baghdad since the Iraqi security forces re-took control of the capital.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - After years on the run from Shiite and Sunni militias and morality police, Iraqi musicians are slowly returning to the streets of Baghdad, looking to fill the silence left by the fading civil war.


2008-11-13 18:44

Iraq: Can ancient Babylon be rescued? (AP)

AP - It was one of the world's first, greatest cities

2008-11-13 18:44

Other ancient sites, museums in Iraq (AP)

AP - Babylon is the most famous of Iraq's more than 12,000 archaeological sites. The ancient capital developed into one of the world's first urban societies more than 4,000 years ago. But it went into decline after Persia captured it 2,500 years ago.

2008-11-13 12:46

US troops leave more security in hands of Iraqis (AP)

U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces inspect the site where a roadside bomb injured two electricians in central Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The U.S. military in Iraq is abandoning

2008-11-13 12:46

Iraq to vote on US pact at weekend: minister (AFP)

US soldiers take positions during a patrol in Baghdad. The Iraqi cabinet will vote on a controversial military pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country on either Saturday or Sunday, Iraq's finance minister has said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - The Iraqi cabinet will vote on a controversial military pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country on either Saturday or Sunday, Iraq's finance minister said.


2008-11-13 12:46

Baghdad blast kills at least 12, wounds 60 (AFP)

A US soldier stands guard during the reopening of the Al-Aima bridge in Baghdad. At least 12 Iraqis have been killed and 60 wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in eastern Baghdad, an interior ministry official has told AFP.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 60 wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, an interior ministry official told AFP.


2008-11-13 06:48

Iraqi forces arrest top 'butcher' in deadly province (AFP)

A US soldier stands guard in Baghdad. Iraqi and US forces have arrested the AFP - Iraqi and US forces have arrested the "number one butcher" responsible for beheadings in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a defence ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.


2008-11-13 06:48

US soldier to be court-martialed in Iraq deaths (AP)

AP - A 26-year-old U.S. Army sergeant will be court-martialed on charges of murder in the deaths of four Iraqi prisoners who were bound, blindfolded and shot before being dumped into a Baghdad canal.

2008-11-13 06:48

Palin conditionally comfortable with Obama on Iraq (AP)

Alaska Govenor Sarah Palin said Wednesday she would not AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has given President-elect Barack Obama a conditional vote of confidence on handling the war in Iraq.


2008-11-13 00:48

Bush Says He Regrets Use of Iraq `Mission Accomplished' Banner (Bloomberg)

US President George W. Bush addresses the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003, as it sails for Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. Bush's successor inherits a world of troubles come January, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a defiant Iran, and a US economy battered by the global financial crisis.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)Bloomberg - Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he regrets the display of the ``Mission Accomplished'' sign as backdrop for a speech he gave about a month after the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.


2008-11-13 00:48

Iraqi town defies Al Qaeda (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Dulaim is an Iraqi village transformed. Where masked gunmen from Al Qaeda in Iraq once imposed their will with killings and even stole irrigation pumps, today numerous Iraqi Army, police, and local Sunni militia checkpoints attest to new levels of security.

2008-11-13 00:48

Baghdad car bomb kills four: police (AFP)

File picture shows Iraqi soldiers securing a street in Baghdad. A car-bomb attack on a main thoroughfare in central Baghdad killed four people on Wednesday, including two police officers who had been patrolling the area, Iraqi police said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A car-bomb attack on a main thoroughfare in central Baghdad killed four people on Wednesday, including two police officers who had been patrolling the area, Iraqi police said.


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