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Iraq govt combats ‘ghost soldier’ corruption
            BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has identified and stopped payment of tens of millions of dollars in salaries previously disbursed to nonexistent troops, known here as “ghost soldiers,” as part of the prime minister’s vow to tackle corruption in the ...
Suicide bomber in tanker truck kills 8 in Iraq
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber driving a tanker truck has targeted a security checkpoint in a village north of Baghdad, killing eight soldiers and militiamen. Police officials say Wednesday’s attack took place in the village of Mikeshifa, ...
Attack on police station in Iraq kills 9
    BAGHDAD  — Militants attacked a police station in an Iraqi village north of Baghdad, killing at least nine people Sunday, officials said. The attack started at dawn with a suicide car bomber hitting the blast walls that surround the police ...
Iran confirms air strikes in Iraq against IS
    BAGHDAD — A senior Iranian official has confirmed his country carried out air strikes in neighboring Iraq against militants linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group at the request of Iraqi authorities, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported. It quoted Deputy Foreign Minister ...
Car bomb attacks kill 37 in Iraq
    BAGHDAD — A string of car bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least 37 people on Thursday, Iraqi officials said. Three of the attacks targeted Shiite districts in the capital, Baghdad, while the fourth targeted a Kurdish neighborhood in the ...
‘Ghost’ retirees get $1b in salaries
    BAGHDAD — In Iraq, about 23,000 “retired fictitious” soldiers and officers received salaries mounting to $1 billion over the past five years, a member of the country’s Parliamentary Integrity Committee said Wednesday in a television interview. “I am dealing with ...
Official: Arrested woman is not IS leader’s wife
    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi official is denying that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. Wednesday’s denial comes a day after Lebanese authorities said they are holding a ...
Displaced Iraqis get different levels of aid
    BAGHDAD — At a camp near Baghdad housing Shiite families who fled the Islamic State group, the mobile homes are stocked with heaters and get more electricity than residents of the capital. Some donated food is even refused. But that's not ...
UN: More than 1,200 Iraqis killed in Nov.
    BAGHDAD — The United Nations says that more than 1,200 Iraqis were killed in November by acts of terrorism and violence.   According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, 1,232 Iraqis were killed in November and 2,434 were wounded, a slight ...
Iraq’s divisions will delay counter-offensive on IS
    BAGHDAD — US air support and pledges of weapons and training for Iraq’s army have raised expectations of a counter-offensive soon against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, but sectarian rifts will hamper efforts to forge a military strategy and may delay ...
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