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Kurdish rebels in Iraq declare Ramzan ceasefire

Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey from bases in northern Iraq declared on Friday a unilateral cease-fire for the Islamic holy month of Ramzan.

Two soldiers killed in Iraq violence

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and five security personnel wounded in three attacks, including a suicide car bombing, in central and northern Iraq, police said.

Three killed, including two police, in Iraq blasts

BAGHDAD – A spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Sunday killed three people, including two policemen, and wounded 22 others, security officials said.

Foreigners among 30 killed in Iraq blaze

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, July 16, (AFP): Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.
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Foreigners among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze

Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.

29 people killed in north Iraq hotel fire

Twenty-nine people, including children, women and foreigners, were killed in a late night fire at a hotel in northern Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah city, health and government officials said today.

Turkish air raid in northern Iraq wounds civilian

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq overnight wounding one person in the raid, an Iraqi regional government official said on Saturday.

Flydubai announces Erbil as 22nd destination

Flydubai has said it will open a new route to the Iraq’s third largest city, Erbil, on July 16. Flights to the capital of the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq will operate twice a week on Fridays and Mondays. On Fridays, flights are scheduled to leave Dubai at 1830hrs, arriving in Erbil after a flight of three hours at 2030hrs local time and will depart from Erbil at 2115hrs, landing in Dubai at 0055hrs local time. On Mondays, flights will leave Dubai at 1130hrs arriving in Erbil at 1330hrs local time and the return flight, will be at 1415hrs landing in Dubai at 1800hrs local time.

Police say 5 killed in 2 attacks in northern Iraq

Officials say four policemen have been killed in an attack targeting their patrol unit in northern Iraq. Seven civilians were also injured in the attack that occurred when an explosives-laden car detonated next to a police patrol in the town of Beiji.

Twin roadside bombs kill 8 in northern Iraq

Twin roadside bombs in a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq have killed eight people, six of them policemen, and wounded 18, police said on Monday.

The bombers struck on Sunday evening in the town of Shawkat, 70 kilometres south of the main northern city of Mosul, the Salaheddin provincial police spokesman, Mr Colonel Hatem al-Jubburi, said.

“The second bomb was timed to go o

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Turkish troops enter Iraq after Kurd rebel attacks

Turkish troops entered northern Iraq overnight, penetrating 10 kilometres (six miles), after deadly attacks by Kurdish rebels inside Turkey, a security official said on Sunday.

Turkish troops enter Iraq

Turkish troops entered northern Iraq overnight, penetrating 10 kilometres (six miles), after deadly attacks by Kurdish rebels inside Turkey, a security official said on Sunday.

Three people were killed in the incursion into the Qandil mountains, where the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) maintains rear bases for its 26-year-old armed campaign for self-rule in southern Turkey, he said.

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130 Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey, N. Iraq since March

ANKARA, June 18, (AFP): The Turkish military said Friday that at least 130 Kurdish rebels were killed in Turkey and neighbouring northern Iraq since March, warning that violence by the militants was set to rise further. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers…

Iraqi official says Iranian troops cross border

BAGHDAD – A senior Kurdish official in northern Iraq says Iranian troops have crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of Iranian Kurdish rebels.

Lufthansa to restart Baghdad flights on 30 Sept

Lufthansa will restart regular service from Munich to Baghdad on September 30, 2010, the airline has announced. Earlier this year, the carrier resumed flights to Iraq after a 20-year interval. Since April 25, it has been serving the city of Erbil in Northern Iraq four times a week from Frankfurt. Lufthansa will fly to Baghdad four times weekly with a Boeing 737.

Lawmaker from Sunni-backed list killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say a newly elected lawmaker from a Sunni-backed list that won the March 7 elections has been killed in a drive-by shooting in northern Iraq.

Iraqi Kurds accuse Turkey and Iran of attacks

TUNCELI, Turkey – Iraqi Kurds on Friday condemned air strikes and shellfire by Turkey and Iran on Turkish-Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq as violations of Iraqi sovereignty.

One dead, 80 hurt in Iraq bus bombing from Christian area

MOSUL, Iraq, May 2, 2010 (AFP) – A double bomb attack targeting buses carrying Christian students and university workers near Mosul in northern Iraq killed a shopkeeper and wounded 80 other people on Sunday, police said.
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US soldier killed in Iraq helicopter crash (Yahoo – World)

AP – The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed and three were wounded in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq.

US soldier killed in Iraq helicopter crash

The US military says an American soldier was killed and three were wounded in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq.

Six Iraq Qaeda leaders killed

BAGHDAD, April 2, (Agencies): US and Iraqi troops have killed or arrested at least six suspected al-Qaeda leaders allegedly involved in an extortion and assassination ring in northern Iraq, the US military said.
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Lufthansa to resume Iraq flights

German carrier, Lufthansa has said that it will resume flights to Iraq on April 25. The new route will offer four weekly flights to Erbil in Northern Iraq from Frankfurt. Lufthansa will operate the four-and-a-half hour flight with an Airbus A319 with 132 seats in Business and Economy Class. The airline said it is preparing to resume flights this summer to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Lufthansa to resume flights to Iraq in April

After a 20-year interval, Lufthansa is resuming flights to Iraq. On 25 April 2010, Germany’s largest carrier will launch services from Frankfurt to the city of Erbil in Northern Iraq. Lufthansa customers will have a choice of four flights per week on this new route.

ArcelorMittal to build steel mill in Iraq

A preliminary agreement has been signed between ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, and its Turkish partner Dayen to set up a steel mill in Northern Iraq to serve the construction industry in the region, Reuters has reported. Construction of the mill is planned to start in the second quarter of 2010, while production is scheduled to commence early in the fourth quarter of 2011. The mini-mill, which will use locally sourced scrap metal to make steel reinforcing bars, is set to cost the two firms $100m to $130m in total, and could produce as much as 500,000 tonnes per year.

Americans Kurds Arabs join forces on north Iraq frontline

A US commander strides down a street in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq, heading a mixed squad of American troops, Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

Etisalat eyes stake in Iraqi operator

Mohammad Omran, Chairman of UAE-based Etisalat has said the company is close to buying a majority stake in Iraq’s Korek Telecom as it looks to double revenues from overseas operations in three years, Reuters has reported. ‘Etisalat is almost near to finalising a deal with Korek,’ Mohammad Omran said at a press conference, adding it was in talks to buy a majority stake in the northern Iraq-based telecom firm.

Iraq-Turkey railway to reopen after seven years

After a seven-year stoppage in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a railway linking northern Iraq and Turkey has reopened, Reuters has reported. The train service between Mosul and southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, which covers a distance of about 600 km and will also carry freight, will operate twice a week.

Al-Futtaim to open Carrefour branch in Iraq

Dubai-based Majid Al-Futtaim (MAF) Retail has announced plans to open its first store in Northern Iraq by the end of this year, as part of a wider expansion plan in the region, Reuters has reported. “The north of Iraq is a very promising market and a stabile area,” Muhammad Naeem, an executive at MAF Retail, told the news service. MAF has also announced plans to develop projects in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, with Libya being considered for the future, he said.

Iraq-Turkey railway link re-opens (BBC World)

The first train service in decades sets off from northern Iraq to Turkey, in a move both countries hope will boost trade.

Kurds to resume oil exports in Iraq

Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Co. has been instructed by the government to resume oil exports from the northern Kurdish region after it has agreed to the local authority’s proposal on a payment method, Bloomberg has reported. The KRG last month proposed that the government pay Norway’s DNO International and other producers in northern Iraq directly or for the revenue to pass through the Kurdish authorities. The region has capacity to export about 100,000 barrels of oil a day, and may start pipeline expansion work to more than double that this year.

nytimes: In Northern Iraq, a Vote Seems Likely to Split on Familiar Lines http://nyti.ms/aTKNk6

nytimes: In Northern Iraq, a Vote Seems Likely to Split on Familiar Lines http://nyti.ms/aTKNk6