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Read More at Wikipedia ›Recent large-scale killings in the Middle East:HOULA, SYRIA, MAY 12, 2012: Activists say men in civilian clothes gunned down people in the streets and stabbed women and children in their homes after large anti-government protests in Houla, a group of villages in central Syria.
The U.N. says at least 108 people were killed, including 34 women and 49 children. The attack came 15 months into an uprising against President Bashar Assad that has killed thousands of people. Assad's regime denies its forces carried out the attack.HALABJA, IRAQ, 1988: In the deadliest chemical weapons attack against civilians, Saddam Hussein's regime unleashed poison gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in northern Iraq, killing up to 5,000 people. Saddam suspected the non-Arab Kurds of siding with Iran as a war between the two was winding down and a rebellion in the north was taking root. Photos showed the bodies of men, women and children lying in the streets. Both Saddam and Ali Hassan al-Majid — widely known ...Turkey said Wednesday that it has no plans to send Iraq's vice president, who is currently in Turkey, back to Iraq for prosecution even after Interpol placed him on ...
Iraq began loading crude oil Friday from a second offshore export terminal in the Persian Gulf, part of a major project to boost Iraq's income.Also Friday, the gover...
The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else th...
The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else th...
An oil exploration deal between U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region is fueling political tensions in a country where a post-U.S.-troop wi...
A Kurdish news agency says Turkish air raids on suspected Kurdish rebels targets in northern Iraq have killed six civilians.The Firat news agency, which is close to ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey sent hundreds of elite troops into northern Iraq on Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas in an operation that could increase tensions w...
A small private plane caught on fire and crashed Friday, shortly after taking off from a regional airport in northern Iraq, killing all seven passengers on board, of...
Demonstrators thronged streets in northern Iraq Saturday to demand justice over a deadly shooting at a protest earlier this week. In Baghdad, hundreds of orphans and...
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen burst into a home in northern Iraq and killed two Christian men as they sat in their living room, continuing a string of attacks again spreading fe...
An American soldier has died in what a U.S. military statement is calling a non-hostile incident in northern Iraq .The military statement Sunday provided no details ...
Iraq's president on Saturday urged the nation's bickering factions to resolve the bitter political dispute that has gripped the government for nearly six months, war...
Syria is allowing Kurdish rebels who are fighting Turkish forces to establish bases in Syrian territory, as ties between the two neighboring countries deteriorate, a...
Leveraging diplomatic strength with Syria - Is Turkey the answer?
The bodyguard for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3,000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of death ...
A bodyguard for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3,000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of death sq...
Authorities say an American teacher has been killed in an apparent murder-suicide in a school in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq .Local police spokesman Sarkawit...
Two bombs that exploded in swift succession killed 13 people Wednesday near a crowded restaurant in a mid-sized city in Iraq's north, officials said.Tal Afar Mayor A...