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BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A case involving terrorism allegations filed against the Iraqi vice president will remain in Baghdad's jurisdiction and not Kirkuk's, a judicial council said.
DIYALA, Iraq, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The sectarian rift in Iraq is making itself felt in Sunni-dominated Diyala province, where the governor and half the council are in self-imposed exile.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A ban on Iraqi political figures from taking part in March elections is payback by certain groups who did poorly in provincial elections, a scholar suggests.
ERBIL, Iraq, May 30 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government has moved, demoted or fired more than a dozen people within the southern Iraqi oil sector this month as domestic and international union officials decry their treatment.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Oil flow will be affected by the Iraqi army's crackdown in the oil capital Basra after all, following a pipeline bombing and dangerous conditions for workers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Iraq's crude capital, Basra, and perhaps its most controversial city, Kirkuk, also flush with oil, face a formidable 2008.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Dividing Iraq along religious and ethnic lines would play into the hands of al-Qaida, which has sought to stoke sectarian hatred in the country, experts say.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Political parties, and their militias, are fighting for power over the Basra government, the oil sector it controls, and the oil and fuels smuggling that bring in extra funds.
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