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Al-Qaeda terrorist killed, woman injured in Mosul

Baghdad - A member of the al-Qaeda terrorist network was killed and an Iraqi woman was injured in separate attacks in Mosul, US forces and media reports said Saturday.

US troops hold explosives expert in Iraq, bomb injures four on bus

Baghdad - At least four people were injured Wednesday in a bomb blast on a bus in north Baghdad while the US military said it captured a suspected Iranian-trained explosives expert in Kut in southern Iraq.

A bomb went off on a bus in the Shiite-dominated Kazimiyah in north Baghdad, injuring four passengers, police sources told the Voices of Iraq news agency.

US troops arrested on Wednesday a suspected special group explosives expert in Numaniyah, 180 kilometres south-east of Baghdad near the city of Kut, according to a US military statement.

The military uses the term "special groups" to describe Shiite fighters breaching a truce order issued by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia fought Iraqi and US troops for months until the truce was reached in May.

"Articles of US-Iraqi pact don't require congress consent"

UA-IraqBaghdad - A senior advisor, David Satterfield, to the US Secretary of State said Tuesday that the

Iraqi Shiite party leader in Iran for medical checks

Baghdad - Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's largest Shiite political party is in Tehran for medical tests, his party said Monday.

Six killed, 17 injured in Iraq violence

32 killed in suicide-bomb attacks in Iraq, say witnesses

Governor of Iraq's Nineveh escapes assassination attempt

Baghdad  - Governor of Iraq's Nineveh escapes assassination attempt

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