Baghdad - More than 5,000 Iraqis protested in Karbala on Monday against the removal of the Shiite holy city's police chief.
The protestors called the government to take back its decision to transfer General Read Shaker from the restive Karbala, to which he is credited with having brought security, to the city of Baquba.
The protestors, who fear that the change might bring back militias and insurgents to the city, carried signs that said "Karbala is safe with its police."
Karbala is located some 110 kilometres southwest of Baghdad.
"I do not object to the government's decision of transferring me to Baquba after all I am an Iraqi soldier," Shaker told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Baghdad - Two Iraqi police officers were killed and 22 injured on Sunday in a bomb attack outside the police academy in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.
A suicide bomber detonated the car he was driving as groups of volunteers were leaving the academy, a police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa. Ten of the injured are in critical condition.
Beirut - Songs by Iraqi and Palestinian refugee rappers are becoming one of the hottest selling items in Beirut's music stores, as war-weary Lebanese fans buy up their albums in solidarity with artists expressing their hardship in exile.
A Palestinian rap group calling themselves I-Voice (Invincible Voice), and an Iraqi band known as UTN1, (Unknown To No One) are among a number of bands trying to inspire young people to keep hope despite the seemingly endless crises in the Middle East.
Baghdad - Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi, controversial in Iraq for his contacts with Israel, said on Saturday that he fears for his life as the Iraqi government has stopped paying for his personal security as part of a decision to strip him of his parliamentary immunity.
The Iraqi Parliament made the decision to punish the al-Alusi following a visit to Israel by the MP in early September.
Israel and Iraq do not have diplomatic relations and Iraqis widely consider Israel as an enemy.
Baghdad - Two Iraqi police officers were killed and 22 injured on Sunday in a bomb attack outside the police academy in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.
Beirut - Songs by Iraqi and Palestinian refugee rappers are becoming one of the hottest selling items in Beirut's music stores, as war-weary Lebanese fans buy up their albums in solidarity with artists expressing their hardship in exile.
Baghdad - Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi, controversial in Iraq for his contacts with Israel, said on Saturday that he fears for his life as the Iraqi government has stopped paying for his personal security as part of a decision to strip him of his parliamentary immunity.
Baghdad - The chief of the Iraqi press syndicate was wounded in a blast tha
