Ammar al-Saffar

Ammar al-Saffar

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized... [more]

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized in southern Iraq as well as hostages taken in a mass kidnapping at a Baghdad research institute.

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"Those who suffer as a consequence of violence in Iraq demand our special attention," said Wisner, who served as US ambassador to India, Egypt, ...  
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Rome, 25 July (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday condemned ongoing violence in Iraq and its impact on Christian communities when he met Iraqi Prime ...  
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Obama: "What I can say is that there's no doubt that our US troops have contributed to a reduction in violence in Iraq. I said that -- not just today, ...  
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... with Katie Couric for last night’s CBS Evening News after McCain refuted Obama’s insistence that violence in Iraq may have waned even without the surge, ...  
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Violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest levels since early 2004. "German companies have a right to hesitate ... but we think we can persuade them in the ...  
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By Klaus Marre Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday, following a visit to Iraq, that he is “pleased” about a “quelling of the ...  
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"I am not persuaded that 20000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence" in Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said in January ...  
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The level of violence in Iraq has dropped markedly since Obama's last visit in 2006, and Maliki's government has become increasingly assertive about its ...  
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US and Iraqi officials frequently accuse Iran of fomenting violence in Iraq by providing support for Shiite militias. Iran denied the accusations.  
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The Pope has often called for an end to violence in Iraq. He condemned the kidnapping and killing earlier this year of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of ...  
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Violence has killed eight people and injured 17 others in separate incidents across the war-stricken country, security officials say. ...  
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The Sacramento Bee asks the headlined question and answers, unsurprisingly, “Yes.” Other news outlets have reported the increasing use of criminal history ...  
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Since the beginning of this year, military experts that I've talked to argue that the fall-off in violence in Iraq had almost nothing to do with the ...  
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