Baghdad - Iraq's parliament was preparing Thursday to vote on a controversial security pact to determine the future of US troops in Iraq after the Tawafuq Coalition and the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue announced their support for the deal, al-Arabiya television reported.

The Tawafuq Coalition, which backs the pact, holds 44 seats in the 275-member parliament, while the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue has 11 seats.

Deputy speaker of parliament Khaled al-Attiyah said "the agreement will pass by the greater majority and I congratulate the Iraqi people for this great achievement."

Baghdad - Two blasts killed two and injured nine people on Thursday in differe

Baghdad  - Two US soldiers have been shot dead while delivering food aid, the US Army reported Wednesday.

Baghdad - Two people were killed and another four wounded on Tuesday when clashes erupted between residents and armed men suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda, a police source said.

The clashes erupted between residents of the al-Ahrash district in the northern Sulaymaniyah province and gunmen. Town residents had accused the gunmen of kidnapping a local farmer.

Two of the wounded belonged to the Sunni tribal Awakening councils, also known as sons of Iraq, who collaborated with the US in fighting against al-Qaeda militias, the source said.

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Baghdad  - A female suicide bomber killed at least seven people Monday at an entrance to the fortified Baghdad diplomatic and governmental area known as the Green Zone, satellite news channel al- Arabiya has reported. Separately, 13 people were killed in a roadside bomb attack in an eastern Baghdad neighbourhood.

Eyewitness and security officials said the female bomber detonated herself at a Green Zone entrance used by high-ranking officials and staff from the Iraqi parliament. Iraqi military spokesman Qassem Attah told al-Araqiah TV that the woman was mentally handicapped.

The suicide bomber set off her bomb at a checkpoint for females. In Iraq, males and females are searched in separate check points.