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Bombing in Baghdad shows chaos caused by the West
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Bombing in Baghdad shows chaos caused by the West

The brutal legacy of the failed US and British 2003 invasion of Iraq was shown in Baghdad last Saturday.
05 July 2016
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Reviews & Culture

Baghdad, 5 March 2007 by Jeremy Deller

This work by a Turner Prize winning artist features the wreckage of a car blown up in the bombing of a book market in Baghdad in Iraq, which killed 38 people.
03 May 2011
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Bombing in Iraq is a sign of brewing tensions

The bombing that killed at least 43 people in Radwaniya near Baghdad last week as they queued for their wages shows that instability still rocks Iraq.
20 July 2010
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Iraqi asylum seekers face violence on Baghdad flight

Iraqi asylum seekers are speaking out after suffering racism, violence and cock-ups on a deportation flight.
20 October 2009
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Eyewitness to the wreckage of Iraq

When you step out on the streets of Baghdad you notice immediately that all is not right in Iraq.
09 June 2009
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Reviews & Culture

Baghdad Of The Mind

Before the rise of Saddam Hussein and the Iraq war, Baghdad was a city of learning and culture, which inspired poets, writers and artists across the world.
21 April 2009
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International

Mass demonstration in Iraq

Iraqi supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shia cleric, demonstrated in their tens of thousands in Baghdad on Friday of last week.
25 November 2008
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Features

Iraq: image and reality

Has Iraq finally turned the corner? George Bush certainly wants us to think so. And at first sight, his arguments look convincing. Large sections of the country – including the capital city Baghdad and the restive Anbar province in the west – are being handed over to the Iraqi army.
09 September 2008
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US forced to end Iraq seige

The US military and its Iraqi allies have abandoned the siege of Sadr City, the poor Shia slum of Baghdad, after failing to disarm the Mehdi army – a resistance organisation led by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
20 May 2008
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Death toll rises in Sadr City siege

Over 800 people are feared dead in the poor slums of Baghdad following a brutal month-long siege by US forces and their Iraqi allies.
06 May 2008
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Occupiers face another setback in Iraq

The US is laying siege to the Baghdad slum of Sadr City in an attempt to crush the Iraqi resistance.
15 April 2008
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Iraq: a country pushed to the brink

For Iraqi refugees, 2007 was a year marked by new levels of misery. According to a survey of 1.5 million refugees in Syria, 78 percent had been forced to flee Baghdad during the "surge".
11 March 2008
Against embedding journalists
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Against embedding journalists

My brother José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish Tele5 TV station, was murdered in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 during a military operation by the US army.
26 February 2008
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Latest victims of US ‘surge’

A US helicopter gunship has killed 13 Iraqi civilians in the town of Iskandriyah. The US claims that some of its troops came under fire from "gunmen" in the area 30 miles south of Baghdad.
05 February 2008
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International

Carnage in Baghdad after US air raid

A deadly attack by US helicopter gunships killed tens of civilians in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
23 October 2007
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Innocents killed by corporate mercenaries in Baghdad

On Tuesday 8 October Marou Awanis was driving through Baghdad when she accidentally got too close to a convoy guarded by "private security contractors". The guards opened fire on her car, killing her and one passenger, and injuring others in the back seat.
16 October 2007
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International

Iraqi protest against wall

Over 1,000 Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad last Saturday against the US occupation and its plans to carve up the city by building walls between Sunni and Shia areas. They chanted "No to the wall, no to America."
09 October 2007
Map showing sectarian cleansing of Baghdad’s neighbourhoods
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Map showing sectarian cleansing of Baghdad’s neighbourhoods

11 September 2007
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Britain’s failing presence in Iraq and Afghanistan

The game is pretty well up for the British presence in Iraq. Opinions as diverse as Menzies Campbell, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, and rebel leader Moqtada al-Sadr, whose base is among Shia in Baghdad’s Sadr City and in the south of the country centred on Basra, agree.
21 August 2007
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US surge can’t stop Iraq resistance

The US army are holding 300,000 Iraqis hostage as they lay siege to Baquba, a mainly Sunni Muslim city north east of Baghdad.
26 June 2007
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International

Iraq oil strike postponed

The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) has postponed its planned strike on Monday over the handing over of Iraq’s oil to multinationals. It postponed the action after it won negotiations with prime minister Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad set for Tuesday.
14 May 2007
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The US builds a sectarian wall to divide Baghdad

The US is planning to turn the Iraqi capital of Baghdad into a series of prison camps, surrounded by miles of 12 foot high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.
24 April 2007
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Alex Callinicos

A bad week for Bush’s Iraq surge

No one could miss the symbolism of the suicide bomb that went off inside the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad on Friday of last week. There is nowhere, even in the heart of the Green Zone, that is safe from the resistance.
17 April 2007
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Iraqis unite in Najaf demonstration to demand US out

Up to a million Iraqis took to the streets of Najaf on Monday to demand an end to the US occupation of their country on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
10 April 2007