Iraq War

Boston bombings 'revenge' for US wars in Muslim nations

17 May 2013

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for US wars in Muslim...

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US soldier escapes death for killing five in Iraq

24 Apr 2013

An American army sergeant pleaded guilty to killing four other soldiers and a naval officer in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq war, saying he was in a "rage" when he...

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Iraq marks a decade since the fall of Baghdad

9 Apr 2013

Iraq on Tuesday marks a decade since US-led forces took control of Baghdad, sealing the ouster of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, but the country remains plagued by deadly attacks and mired in...

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Bitter lessons of war in Iraq

19 Mar 2013

The drumbeats of war were thundering loudly this day 10 years ago. Then US president George W. Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair had for months been making their case for the invasion of...

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Iraq looks back on a decade without peace after shock and awe

19 Mar 2013

It has been more than six years since a bomb ripped away the eyes from Shams Karim, killed her mother and left the little girl, now seven, blind and disfigured for life. Psychiatric drugs help...

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At least 112,000 civilians killed in decade-long Iraq conflict

17 Mar 2013

Including combatants on all sides of the decade-long conflict, as well as yet undocumented civilian fatalities, the figure could rise as high as 174,000, according to the UK-based Iraq Body Count...

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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Iraq war killed 120,000, cost US$800b, study finds

At least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 coalition troops died in Iraq between the outbreak of war in 2003 and the US withdrawal in 2011, researchers estimated on Friday.

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Blasts kill 15 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

A series of bombings killed at least 15 people in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad on Sunday, officials said, the latest attacks to hit Iraq as the country struggles with protests and a political...

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US court denies suit against Rumsfeld for torture of US citizens in Iraq

Two American citizens cannot sue former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over allegations that they were tortured by the American military in Iraq, a federal appeals court ruled.

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IRAQ

Monument to replace statue of Hussein that was torn down

Nearly a decade after Saddam Hussein's statue was pulled down in an iconic moment seen globally, Baghdad will finally replace it with new artwork to mark its selection as the 2013 Arab Capital of...

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Talking points

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

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Bush leaves America divided and in a rut

George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States in the shadow of a divisive election. He lost the popular vote but won after a controversial Supreme Court ruling on a disputed result...

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