News on Iraq

Detroit Free Press, AP win top Headliner Awards

2010-10-13T14:06:18Z

Headliner Awards cite Detroit Free Press, AP, broadcasters in Texas and Ohio

Newspaper reporters in Detroit who uncovered a scandal that led to the mayor's downfall and a staff photographer for The Associated Press whose work was ...

Third person charged in Iraq fraud case

2010-09-09T10:57:33Z

Federal Official Says Contract-Rigging Case Is Largest From Iraq Reconstruction Effort

A third member of a Texas family has been arrested in connection with what a federal official says is the largest Army contract-rigging and bribery case to emerge from the Iraq reconstruction effort.

Carolyn Blake, a former schoolteach...

Iraq Violence

2010-12-31T10:31:21Z

Iraqi Christians pray for slain Christians, Fawzi Rahim, 76, and Janet Mekha, 78, during their funeral Mass at St. George Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a ...

Iraq Christians

2010-12-31T10:31:19Z

Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians displayed at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sending fear into the country's already terrified tiny Christian community, police said. (AP Photo/Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sending fear into the country's already terrified tiny Christian community, police said. (AP Photo/Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the alrea...

Iraq Oil

2010-12-28T07:00:36Z

FILE - In this May 31, 2009 file photo, an employee works at Tawke oil fields in the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Iraq's Kurds pushed the central government on Tuesday to recognize oil contracts they signed with international companies by insisting the self-ruled region will not resume exports until Baghdad recognizes the deals. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

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