http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/KirkukFind stories, videos, and photos about Kirkuk from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:58:47 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Kirkuk14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Kirkuk from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.election.law/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.election.law/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraq's parliament on Sunday passed a long-awaited election law that the government said will allow national elections to take place in January.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:09:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/07/IRAQ.ELECTION/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/07/IRAQ.ELECTION/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraqi parliament members adjourned on Saturday without reaching an accord on a controversial new elections law, and the lawmakers could make another try to forge and pass legislation tomorrow.Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:24:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/02/iraq.biden.elections/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/02/iraq.biden.elections/index.html#cnnSTCTextA Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament said Monday that the United States is pressuring the "highest levels of the Kurdish leadership" to accept a compromise that would dictate how national elections would be held in January.Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:28:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.elections/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.elections/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe fate of Iraq's national elections hung in the balance Thursday as the nation's lawmakers failed to convene for an official session and adopt an election law, a move that could spark a delay in the upcoming vote.Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:56:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.election/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.election/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Kurdish bloc in the Iraqi parliament intends to boycott the vote on a proposed election law if the oil-rich province of Kirkuk is banned from voting in next year's national elections, two Kurdish lawmakers said.Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:10:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/21/iraq.election.law/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/21/iraq.election.law/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraq's parliament failed Wednesday to reach agreement on a new electoral law, but the parliament speaker said it would not affect the date of the general election scheduled for January.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/20/iraq.us.politics/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/20/iraq.us.politics/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki heads to the White House on Tuesday to meet President Barack Obama with the need for a timely election in Iraq dogging him.Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/17/iraq.elections.withdrawal/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/17/iraq.elections.withdrawal/index.html#cnnSTCTextAlthough the U.S. government would prefer that the Iraqi elections be held on time, a delay would not affect the schedule of troop withdrawal, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Friday.Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:59:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least eight members of an Iraqi family were killed and a child was wounded Wednesday in a bombing in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, local police said.Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:37:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/12/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/12/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least four people were killed and 32 wounded as six Baghdad-area churches were bombed within 24 hours, officials told CNN.Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:24:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/iraq.us.pullout/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/iraq.us.pullout/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraqis celebrated in the streets Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from their cities and towns under an agreement signed last year with the U.S. government.Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/baghdad.blast/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/baghdad.blast/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least 62 people were killed and 150 wounded Wednesday when a bomb ripped through an outdoor market area in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:02:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/iraq.kirkuk.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/iraq.kirkuk.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe death toll from Saturday's suicide truck bombing in northern Iraq -- the deadliest single attack this year -- has risen to 80, a police official said.Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:59:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/iraq.kirkuk.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/iraq.kirkuk.suicide.bombing/index.html#cnnSTCTextA suicide truck bombing near a Shiite mosque killed at least 67 people and wounded at least 200 Saturday in a city close to Kirkuk, Iraq, an official with Kirkuk police said.Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:59:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/12/iraq.killing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/12/iraq.killing/index.html#cnnSTCTextA 15-year-old boy shot and killed a prominent Sunni Arab parliament member and killed three more when he tossed a hand grenade into a Baghdad mosque on Friday, an Interior Ministry official said.Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:46:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.christian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.christian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo attacks on Christian families in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday evening left three people dead and two others wounded, police said.Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/21/bergen.iraq/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/21/bergen.iraq/index.html#cnnSTCTextWhat should President Obama do to build on what is widely acknowledged to be Iraq's fragile peace?Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:41:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCTextGunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said.Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:31:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/12/kurdish.tensions/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/12/kurdish.tensions/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Kirkuk region -- where police say a suicide bomber killed 55 at a restaurant on Thursday -- is a key battleground in a power struggle among Kurds and other elements in Arab-dominated Iraq.Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:24:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextA suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday at a restaurant in northern Iraq where Arab and Kurdish politicians were working on ways to ease tensions.Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextA suicide bomber in northern Iraq attacked a restaurant Thursday, killing at least 55 people and wounding 109, a local police official said.Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:37:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA U.S. soldier was killed Saturday when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in the southeastern Iraqi province of Maysan, the U.S. military said.Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:15:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextCoalition forces in Baghdad have killed the man believed to be the mastermind of recent bombings in the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said.Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:21:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844043,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844043,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsParliament breaks the deadlock on an electoral law by postponing resolution on the key sticking point of KirkukWed, 24 Sep 2008 20:55:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/24/Iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/24/Iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least 22 police officers and Awakening Council members were killed in an ambush southwest of Diyala Wednesday, a U.S. military official said.Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextFour female suicide bombers and a gunman killed at least 70 people and wounded almost 300 others during a string of attacks in central Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday, officials said.Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:35:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1827038,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1827038,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsExplosions tore through a Shi'ite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish rally in northern Iraq, killing at least 43 people and wounding scores moreMon, 28 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraq's president has rejected the recently passed provincial elections law, his office said on Wednesday -- a move that appears to doom what has been touted as all-important legislation for the country.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:47:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/22/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/22/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextIraq's parliament on Tuesday passed a law setting guidelines for provincial elections, despite a boycott by Kurdish lawmakers.Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/10/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/10/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextThree prominent tribal leaders, including the head of Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribe and two others who had been working for national reconciliation, were killed over the past 24 hours in northern Iraq.Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:31:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/22/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/22/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextSix Iraqis were killed Saturday when a U.S. helicopter fired on a small gathering at what may have been a pro-U.S. group's checkpoint, officials said. Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:41:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe U.S. military in Iraq recently received the severed fingers of five men kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:43:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextConflict flared up Wednesday in an area of northern Iraq where U.S. and Iraqi troops have been taking on al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:38:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.rice/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.rice/index.html#cnnSTCTextU.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that improvements in security in Iraq have provided a window of opportunity in which political reconciliation should take place.Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:30:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1695740,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1695740,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to Kirkuk in the oil-rich Kurdish regionTue, 18 Dec 2007 13:00:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/08/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/08/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA regional leader of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's movement and his family died when an explosion went off as they were sleeping in their home in southern Iraq, police said.Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:25:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextCholera deaths at a Baghdad orphanage and deteriorating water and sewage systems are spurring fears of a larger outbreak of the killer disease, the United Nations children's agency said.Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:29:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextGunmen kidnapped 10 tribal sheiks in Baghdad as the men were heading home Sunday after meetings with Iraqi officials on the nation's contentious reconciliation process, an Interior Ministry official said. Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:29:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe deputy police chief in the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk escaped unharmed when a bomb exploded near his convoy Saturday in central Kirkuk, but one of his bodyguards was killed, police said.Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/27/iraq.cholera/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/27/iraq.cholera/index.html#cnnSTCTextA 40-year-old woman who lived in the southern Baghdad outskirts has died of cholera, the 12th death in Iraq from a recent outbreak of the disease, an Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:06:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/30/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/30/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextAn explosion wounded at least four Iraqi police officers Thursday while they were dismantling a bomb on a Baghdad bridge, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:46:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654449,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654449,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsBecause Tehran has a bone to pick with the Kurds, who don't have many friends at all.Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/16/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/16/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA suicide truck bomber ripped through a busy commercial district in Kirkuk on Monday afternoon, leaving a large crater surrounded by dozens of mutilated bodies, police and military officials said. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:42:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.main/index.htmlGunmen attacked the house of a senior Baquba police official Friday, killing at least 14 people, a Diyala province security official said.Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/02/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/02/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar last week is the deadliest single attack since the Iraq war began in 2003, a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new death toll for the blast surfaced.Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:47:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/19/iraq.explosions/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/19/iraq.explosions/index.htmlSix explosions rocked this oil-rich city in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 37, a Kirkuk police official told CNN.Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:48:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/09/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/09/iraq.main/index.htmlA militant group in Iraq has posted a video that shows what it says is an American helicopter being shot down.Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:49:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/17/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/17/iraq.main/index.htmlExplosions and gunfire in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Kirkuk claimed 35 lives Wednesday.Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:23:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/15/iraq.bodies/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/15/iraq.bodies/index.htmlIraqi police found 83 bodies in Iraq over the weekend, an official with Baghdad emergency police said.Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:58:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.main/index.htmlThousands of Iraqi police officers have been killed or wounded over the past two years, the U.S. commander in charge of police training in Iraq said Friday.Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:05:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlJust hours after a suicide bomber killed 20 people in northern Iraq, U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday that the nation is in "grave danger" of falling into civil war.Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.htmlFour car bomb attacks in less than three hours in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday left at least 23 people dead and 66 wounded, police told CNN.Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:31:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/iraq.main/index.htmlFormer Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been taken to the hospital after suffering from the effects of a hunger strike, launched in protest of his ongoing trial, the chief prosecutor in his trial said.Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:44:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/iraq.main/index.htmlU.S. and Iraqi soldiers have launched an operation outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to rout out al Qaeda terrorists blamed for killing dozens of Iraqi soldiers and police in recent weeks.Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:09:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/15/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/15/iraq.main/index.htmlThe head of Iraq's Olympic Committee, Ahmad el Kijiye, was kidnapped Saturday along with at least 30 of his co-workers by gunmen dressed in army uniforms, Iraqi police said.Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:13:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.main/index.htmlBombs killed eight people in Baghdad, including seven at Ismail Al-Qubaisi Mosque at 2:30 p.m. after Friday prayers. Five people were wounded.Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:42:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/25/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/25/iraq.main/index.htmlAs violence continued to plague Iraq on Saturday, two U.S. senators visited the country and asked leaders to overcome political obstacles and form a long-awaited national unity government.Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:13:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/13/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/13/iraq.main/index.htmlAttacks around Iraq on Monday claimed five lives and wounded at least 31 people, officials said.Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:07:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/01/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/01/iraq.main/index.htmlViolence shook Baghdad and areas outside the capital Wednesday as strikes thought to be fueled by sectarian animosity persisted and Iraqi leaders prepared to huddle to work toward a national unity government.Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:11:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/20/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/20/iraq.main/index.htmlSeven bomb attacks ripped through Iraq on Monday, killing 16 people, including a U.S. soldier, and wounding 56, officials said.Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:30:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.main/index.htmlABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman were in serious but stable condition Sunday after both were wounded by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, ABC officials said.Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:34:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/07/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/07/iraq.main/index.htmlAt least 13 people, including six Iraqi police commandos, were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded Saturday as a police commando patrol was passing by, police said.Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:52:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/06/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/06/iraq.main/index.htmlEleven U.S. troops -- eight soldiers and three Marines -- were among about 140 people killed in attacks across Iraq Thursday, military officials said. It was the deadliest day in Iraq in nearly four months.Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:59:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/29/iraq.protest/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/29/iraq.protest/index.htmlAbout 350 Arab and Turkmen demonstrators took to the streets of Kirkuk on Thursday, protesting preliminary results of the Dec. 15 parliamentary election and condemning what they claim are Kurdish attempts to control the city, according to Kirkuk Police Chief Torhan Abdul Rahman.Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:19:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/26/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/26/iraq.main/index.htmlInsurgents in Iraq killed four people and wounded 17 others Saturday in three separate attacks, officials said.Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:28:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/22/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/22/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide bombing killed 18 people and wounded 28 others Tuesday in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said.Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:40:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/02/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/02/iraq.main/index.htmlDeadly violence coinciding with the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan left 27 Iraqis dead Wednesday in Musayyib, Baghdad and Kirkuk.Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/16/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/16/iraq.main/index.htmlMore than 20 Iraqis have been killed in a third day of increasing violence in Baghdad and across the country.Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.main/index.htmlInsurgents killed three members of a leading Sunni Arab party on Friday in southern Mosul -- grabbing them off the street, lining them up against the wall of a mosque and shooting them, officials said.Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.htmlThe American death toll this week in Iraq rose to 27.Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:32:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/13/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/13/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide bomber blew up a vehicle Wednesday near a U.S. military convoy and a large group of Iraqi children in Baghdad, killing 27 people, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:31:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/10/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/10/iraq.main/index.htmlBombs in three Iraqi cities killed 30 people and wounded about 75, authorities said Sunday.Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:06:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/30/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/30/iraq.main/index.htmlInsurgent attacks in the last six months have killed more than 8,000 Iraqi civilians, police and troops, according to Iraq's interior minister.Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:27:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/14/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/14/iraq.main/index.htmlArmed conflict rattled Iraq Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least 30 people in Kirkuk, Ramadi and near Baquba.Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:05:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.main/index.htmlSunni Arabs -- many of whom boycotted Iraq's elections -- began talks Thursday with members of the panel writing the country's new constitution, officials said.Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/14/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/14/iraq.main/index.htmlInsurgents killed 18 people Thursday in attacks on police in three Iraqi cities, authorities said.Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:25:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/13/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/13/iraq.main/index.htmlA blast near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed 12 Iraqi security personnel trying to defuse a roadside bomb Wednesday, officials said.Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:02:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.htmlIn the deadliest single insurgent attack of the Iraq war, a suicide car bombing killed 125 people Monday in Hilla where police recruits were waiting to get physicals, Iraqi government and health officials said.Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:28:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/16/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/16/iraq.main/index.htmlAn Italian journalist kidnapped earlier this month in Baghdad has appeared in a videotape aired on Italian TV and urged her fellow citizens, government and her companion to do all they can to end the occupation of Iraq.Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.main/index.htmlA mortar attack Saturday on an Iraqi voter registration site north of Baghdad killed an Iraqi civilian and wounded eight others, a U.S. Army spokesman said.Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:45:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.conflict/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.conflict/index.htmlDeadly insurgent attacks that have come to typify the persistent warfare in Iraq have left at least seven people dead in two volatile regions north of Baghdad.Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:25:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide car bomb detonated Saturday in front of the Iraqi national guard headquarters in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 19 people and wounding 67 others, including guardsmen and recruits, Iraqi officials said.Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:54:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.raid/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.raid/index.htmlFighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence.Sun, 05 Sep 2004 08:17:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.htmlFighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence.Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/15/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/15/iraq.main/index.htmlThe abductors of an Egyptian hostage in Iraq have given his Saudi employer 48 hours to prove the company has left Iraq, the Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera reported Thursday.Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:06:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/09/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/09/iraq.main/index.htmlAmerican soldiers held back from helping Iraqi police in their battle against the Mehdi Army in Najaf on Thursday morning, but later U.S. commanders agreed to resupply the police with ammunition, according to a senior U.S. military officer.Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.htmlViolence marked the start of the weekend in Iraq as two Iraqi civilians were killed in an attack on Mosul's city hall and five were wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:15:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/18/korea.iraq.troop/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/18/korea.iraq.troop/index.htmlSouth Korea has canceled plans to send 3,000 troops to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk due to security concerns, and is working with the United States to decide on a more suitable location for its troops to be deployed.Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:41:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/23/sprj.nirq.main/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/23/sprj.nirq.main/index.htmlA car bomb attack on a police station Monday killed eight police officers and wounded 35 others, including two children, in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the U.S. military said.Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:23:00 EST