Some days, fisherman Aoun Saleh loves life on the seas: the friendships, the jokes, the singing, especially when they have a big catch.
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Come to Sadr City and follow the children, the one hauling flour on his donkey, the one collecting garbage on his tractor, the two brothers with bowl haircuts and greasy hands hoisting mufflers and car batteries in the late morning heat.
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Nothing is too good for Thair abu Yousif’s loved ones.
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In Iraq, you don’t know a man if you don’t know his headband – the seemingly ordinary rope, usually knit from wool, that is steeped in folklore.
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As athletes in Beijing vie for medals, fame and fortune, Iraqi distance runner Mahmoud Kamil Ahmed competes thousands of miles away for a different reason: to forget.
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Nearly a year after pulling out of Iraq’s “unity government,” the main Sunni Arab political bloc returned to the Shiite Muslim-led Cabinet on Saturday, in a breakthrough for efforts to mend relations between the country’s largest religious communities.
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An attempt to push through legislation needed to hold Iraq’s provincial elections in the fall ended in disarray Tuesday when Kurdish lawmakers walked out of parliament over voting provisions in the disputed city of Kirkuk.
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Iraq’s foreign minister said today that concessions by both sides had advanced the prospects for a new security agreement needed for
U.S. forces to remain in the country beyond the end of the year.
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Members of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr’s political bloc announced Sunday that the group would not compete as a party in coming local elections but would endorse candidates.
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Abu Hassan took deep breaths of joy as he crossed the double-decker bridge spanning the Tigris River.
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