Baghdad Shooting

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  US Forces Shoot Down Armed Drone Over Iraq Embassy

  US forces shot down an armed drone above their embassy in Baghdad on Monday night, Iraqi security officials said, hours after a rocket attack on a base housing US soldiers in the west of the country.

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  ISIS Releases Video Showing Execution Of Iraq 'Election Advocators'

  ISIS' Amaq News Agency released a video on Friday showing what they said was ISIS terrorists shooting "two advocators" for next month's Iraqi parliamentary elections in the town of al-Tarmiyah, in the Salah al-Din governorate north of Baghdad.

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  Blackwater Guards Get Heavy Prison Sentences in 2007 Iraq Killings

  One former Blackwater guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others received 30-year sentences Monday for their roles in a 2007 mass shooting in Iraq that left at least 14 civilians dead.

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  Emirati Airlines Halt Flights to Baghdad After Shooting

  Three airlines from the United Arab Emirates are cancelling flights to Baghdad after a flight from the Mideast's busiest airport in Dubai came under fire as it landed in the Iraqi capital Monday night.

• Bombs Kill At Least 35 Across Iraq a Day After Mosque Shooting

  Bombings across Iraq killed at least 35 people in attacks that appeared to be revenge for an assault on a Sunni mosque that has deepened sectarian conflict.

• Suicide Attacks Kill At Least 17 in Iraq After Mosque Shooting

  Two suicide bombers in Iraq killed at least 17 people in apparent revenge attacks after an assault on a Sunni mosque deepened sectarian conflict.

• Shi'ite Militia Kill At least 68 Iraqi Sunnis in Mosque Shooting: Morgue Official

  Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen machine gunned minority Sunni Muslims in a village mosque on Friday, killing dozens just as Baghdad was trying to build a cross-community government to fight Sunni militants whose rise has alarmed Western powers.

• Violence, Including Fallujah Shelling, Kills 20 in Iraq

  Violence in Iraq, including the shelling of a militant-held city, a suicide bombing and shootings, killed 20 people on Saturday as officials tallied votes from last month's parliamentary election.

• Attacks in Iraq Kill Six People: Officials

  Iraqi authorities say bombings and shooting have killed six people in and around the capital, Baghdad.

• Violence kills eight people in Iraq

  Shelling in Iraq's city of Fallujah, held by anti-government fighters for more than two months, and a shooting targeting a local official killed eight people Friday, police and doctors said.

• Baghdad bombs and shooting kill at least 19

  Car bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital and a shooting killed at least 19 people on Wednesday, police said, driving the death toll so far this month to nearly 1,000, according to Iraq Body Count.

• Bombings, shootings kill at least 17 people in Iraq

  At least 17 people, most of them Shi'ite Muslims, were killed in a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq on Saturday ahead of a major Shi'ite ritual, medical and police sources said.

• Gunmen kill 18 Iranian gas workers in Iraq: witnesses

  Masked gunmen killed 18 people, most of them Iranians, working on a gas pipeline outside the northeastern Iraqi town of Muqdadiya on Friday, witnesses and officials said.

• Series of ten blasts hits Baghdad, death toll rises to 62

  Ten bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 41 people today, while 20 died in bombings and shootings elsewhere in Iraq, officials said.

• Militants shoot down military helicopter in northern Iraq: police

  Unidentified militants shot down a military helicopter in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing all four crew members, police sources said.