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BAGHDAD, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- An Iraqi court sentenced in absentia former Cultural Minister Asaad al-Hashimi to death for the 2005 assassination of a rival lawmaker's sons.
BAGHDAD, June 16 (UPI) -- A move by the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council to revoke immunity for lawmakers is politically motivated, a Sunni member of Parliament said Monday.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The arrest of two members of a prominent Sunni family is escalating tension within the Iraqi leadership, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- An Iraqi-U.S. security force arrested the son of a Sunni member of Parliament following the discovery of explosives near the politician's office.
The Basra-based, Hezbollah-backed Al Bainaa reported that the Anbar Salvation Council is preparing to start negotiating with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the issue of candidates to fill position vacated by the Iraqi Accordance Front.
BAGHDAD, May 21 (UPI) -- An explosion in western Baghdad killed three Iraqi soldiers and injured two others Monday.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Sunni leaders in Iraq blame lack of progress on differences among various groups in the country on the incarceration of thousands of people.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Iraq's Shiite bloc is working to form a government of national unity.
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq's violent Anbar province say they are ready to cooperate with the United States.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Votes in Iraq's parliamentary election are being counted, with early reports that a secular Sunni alliance and a religious Shiite bloc are in the lead.