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Saudi Gazette
February 13, 2018
Baghdad — The weightlifters on Iraq's national women's team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of ... Jerking weights heavier than themselves at a rundown gym in Baghdad's conservative Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, the young women and girlsÃâà...
Xinhua
January 15, 2018
BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Monday issued orders for the security forces to track the extremist terrorists and bring ... Adan Square at the entrance of the holy Shiite neighborhood of Kadhmiyah, leaving two people killed and 24 injured, along with destroying 11 cars.
Xinhua
January 13, 2018
13 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and eight others wounded Saturday in a car bomb explosion in northern Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry ... The blast took place in the evening when a booby-trapped car went off in the busy Adan Square at the entrance of the holy Shiite neighborhood ofÃâà...
Xinhua
January 13, 2018
The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive-laden motorcycle at the crowded Adan Square at the entrance of the holy Shiite neighborhood of Kadhmiyah, destroying 11 cars, the source said on condition of anonymity. Earlier in the evening, the source cited first police reportsÃâà...
New York Times
May 30, 2017
An explosion early Tuesday at an ice cream parlor in Baghdad shared many of the same heart-wrenching characteristics of last week's attack at an arena in Manchester, England. And that was just the start of the violence on Tuesday in a city where these kinds of terrorist attacks have actually been on theÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
May 3, 2017
While Iraqi forces push further into the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, a fight over the future of Iraq is brewing in Baghdad. ... “Whatever he says we do – if he says 'live' we live, if he says 'die', we die,” said Haider Kamal, a laborer from Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Shuala, at a protest called by Sadr lastÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 20, 2017
In our news wrap Monday, at least 23 people were killed and nearly 50 more wounded by a suicide car bomb in a busy commercial district -- and mostly Shiite neighborhood -- of Baghdad. The violence erupted as Iraq's prime minister was visiting the White House. Also: Syrian government forces recapturedÃâà...
CNN
February 16, 2017
The explosion came less than a day after another car bomb rocked eastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding at least 20 others, according to Saad Maan, spokesman for Baghdad's Operations Command. That attack happened in the predominately Shiite neighborhood of Habibiya, he said in aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
January 5, 2017
A child inspects debris blown against a fence at the scene of a car bombing near an outdoor market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. Iraq, Thursday, Jan 5, 2017. The car bomb tore through an outdoor fruit and vegetable market on Thursday, killing at least nine people in what appeared to be theÃâà...
