Month: July 2005
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Seven Iraqi Soldiers Killed After Attacks on Iraqi Army
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 11, 2005 Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed after insurgents attacked an Iraqi Army check point north of Baghdad today, during the latest surge in violence in Iraq. The attack occurred about 45 miles north of Baghdad in Khalis, the same town where 26 Iraqi soldiers died June 15 after…
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23 Killed in Bombing at Baghdad Recruiting Center
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 11, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 10 – A brief lull in the suicide bombings here ended Sunday when an attacker mingling with a crowd of men outside an Iraqi Army recruiting center detonated an explosive vest, killing at least 23 volunteers and wounding at least 40 others. The attack…
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Iraq Asks Muslim States for Support After Envoy’s Killing
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 9, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 8 – Iraq’s transitional government reached out anxiously on Friday to Arab and other Muslim nations, asking them not to be intimidated by the killing of Egypt’s top diplomat here by an Islamic terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. The appeal, in a Foreign Ministry…
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Rebels Kill Egyptian Diplomat, Adding Pressure on Others in Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said Thursday that it had killed Egypt’s ambassador-designate in Iraq, Ihab al-Sharif, four days after gunmen seized him on a street in a diplomatic quarter in western Baghdad, where he had driven alone to buy a…
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Iraq Asks Muslim Nations Not to Be Deterred by Envoy’s Death
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 8 – Iraq’s transitional government anxiously reached out to Arab and other Muslim countries today, urging them not to be intimidated by the killing of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq by an Islamic militant group linked to Al Qaeda. The appeal, in a Foreign Ministry…