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Chelsea Manning Freed From Military Prison

US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of...

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Chelsea Manning Will Continue To Receive Army Benefits After Release

Chelsea Manning will continue to receive health care and other benefits given to active duty soldiers after she is...

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Chelsea Manning Prepares To Leave Male Prison As A Woman

Chelsea Manning says she can't wait to breathe the spring air and go swimming when she is released from a Kansas prison...

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US To Arm Syrias Kurds ‘very Quickly’

The United States will soon start delivering weapons to Syria's Kurdish fighters, despite furious Turkish objections, a...

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Chelsea Manning Thanks Obama Ahead of Impending Release

Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US...

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Seven Anti-Corruption Activists Kidnapped In Baghdad

Armed men have kidnapped seven young Iraqi anti-corruption activists in central Baghdad, security sources and a civil...

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11 Journalists Killed In Iraq In Past Year

Eleven journalists died covering conflict or were assassinated in Iraq during the past year, a Baghdad-based watchdog...

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IS Attack In Western Iraq Kills 10 Soldiers

Jihadist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on Tuesday in their latest deadly...

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Car Bomb Blast Kills Three In Central Baghdad

A car bomb attack on a traffic police compound in central Baghdad Friday killed at least three people and wounded...

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Iraq Holding Qatar Hunting Party’s Ransom Money

Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the...

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Large Crowds As Australia and New Zealand Mark Anzac Day

Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders, many braving heavy rain, turned out Tuesday to mark the Gallipoli landing...

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Ambush Kills Off-Duty Iraqi Soldiers In Anbar Province

Fighters have killed at least 10 off-duty Iraqi soldiers and injured another 20 in an ambush in a part of the country's...

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IS Ambush Kills 10 Iraqi Forces

Islamic State group fighters disguised as soldiers ambushed a government convoy in a remote desert region of western...

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Huge Crowds of Shiite Faithful Throng Baghdad Shrine

Hundreds of thousands of Shiite faithful thronged the mausoleum of Imam Kadhim in Baghdad Sunday for the climax of a...

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US Defence Secretary Visits Key Ally Qatar

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis met Qatar's emir Saturday during a visit to the oil-rich Gulf state, home to the...

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Qatari Hunting Party Kidnapped In Iraq Freed

A Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 has been freed and was being handed over to a Qatari...

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Satellite Dishes Reconnect Post-IS Mosul To World

Satellite dishes have been sprouting on the rooftops of east Mosul since it was retaken from the Islamic State group,...

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Australian Military Advisers ‘hit With Mustard Gas’ In Iraq By ISIS

Australian military advisers have reportedly been hit by an Islamic State gas attack in Iraq. On Sunday, the advisers...

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IS Attacked Iraq Forces With Chemical Weapons

The Islamic State group used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces taking part in the operation to recapture Mosul,...