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Iran Digs In Heels On Nuclear Centrifuges At Vienna Talks – Envoys
Iran is refusing to significantly cut the number of centrifuges it intends to keep to produce nuclear fuel, making…
Maliki Stands With Sunni Leaders, Appealing For Iraqi Unity
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki broadcast a joint appeal for national unity on Tuesday with bitter Sunni…
Israel Re-Arrests Former Palestinian Prisoners In Hunt For Teens
Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day…
Israel Expands West Bank Hunt For Missing Teens, Palestinian Killed
Israeli forces searching for three teenagers believed to have been kidnapped swept into a second West Bank city on…
Advancing Iraq Rebels Seize Northwest Town In Heavy Battle
Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq on Sunday after heavy fighting,…
Iraq Insurgent Advance Slows, U.S. Sends Carrier To Gulf
An offensive by insurgents that threatens to dismember Iraq seemed to slow on Saturday after days of lightning…
Iraq Forces Preparing for Counter-Offensive: Officer
Iraqi security forces readied a counter-offensive against militants north of Baghdad on Saturday, an army colonel…
Iran’s Rouhani Says Ready To Aid Iraq, Nuke Deal By July 20 Possible
Iran stands ready to provide help to Iraq's government in its fight against Sunni insurgents within the framework…
Iraq’s Top Shi’ite Cleric Issues Call To Fight Jihadist Rebelsa
Iraq's most senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric urged followers to take up arms against a full-blown Sunni militant…
Iraq Kurds Take Kirkuk; Sunni Militants Surge Toward Baghdad
Iraqi Kurds took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday after government forces abandoned their…