Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
February 2013 - Iraq Special Weapons News
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- Iraq Accuses Ukraine of Selling Inferior Armored Vehicles RIA Novosti 28 Feb 2013 -- A senior Iraqi lawmaker on Thursday accused Ukraine of delivering low-quality armored personnel carriers and breaching the delivery terms of a contract signed in 2009.
- Navy Delivers Two Coastal Patrol Boats to Iraq NNS 21 Feb 2013 -- The U.S. Navy delivered two more 35-meter patrol boats (PB-310 and PB-311) to the Iraqi navy at the Umm Qasr naval facility in Iraq, Feb. 17, after each craft successfully completed reactivation in Bahrain.
- UN envoy strongly condemns terrorist attacks on civilians in Iraqi capital UN News Centre 17 Feb 2013 -- The top United Nations envoy in Iraq has strongly condemned the series of bombings that struck several neighbourhoods in Baghdad on Sunday, killing and injuring dozens of people.
- Thousands Rally Against Iraqi Prime Minister RFE/RL 15 Feb 2013 -- Thousands of people have rallied in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq to protest against the country’s Shi'ite-led government.
- Briefing: A guide to defusing sectarian tensions in Iraq IRIN 13 Feb 2013 -- Protests have rocked Sunni-dominated provinces of Iraq for almost two months, raising sectarian tensions in the country’s fragile post-war environment.
- Iraq To Resume Flights To Kuwait RFE/RL 12 Feb 2013 -- Iraq's state-run airline will resume commercial flights to neighboring Kuwait for the first time since Saddam Hussein's forces invaded the Gulf state more than 22 years ago.
- Polish Ambassador Emerges Unhurt in Iraqi Mine Explosion RIA Novosti 11 Feb 2013 -- The ambassador of Poland in Iraq emerged unhurt after an explosive device went off near his car in northern Iraq.
- Suicide Bombing Kills Up To Eight In Northern Iraq RFE/RL 11 Feb 2013 -- A suicide car bomb has killed as many as eight people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
- Gunmen Kill Four In Mosul RFE/RL 11 Feb 2013 -- Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed four people in the northern city of Mosul.
- UN chief condemns attack on Iranian exile camp in Iraq UN News Centre 09 Feb 2013 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned a mortar attack on an Iranian exile camp near Iraq's capital, Baghdad, which reportedly killed six people and injured several others.
- After latest attacks, UN envoy appeals to Iraqi leadership to unite sectarian groups UN News Centre 08 Feb 2013 -- The top United Nations official in Iraq has urged the country's leadership to take immediate and necessary measures to stop sectarian violence from spreading, following a series of bombings that killed and injured dozens of civilians.
- Iraq Hit by Multiple Bombings VOA 08 Feb 2013 -- Four car bomb explosions shook parts of Iraq Friday, killing at least 26 people.
- Many Reported Killed In Attack On Kirkuk Police Headquarters RFE/RL 03 Feb 2013 -- Dozens of people have been reported killed when at least one suicide car bomber and gunmen tried to storm police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
- Iraq: UN envoy deplores attacks on police headquarters in Kirkuk UN News Centre 03 Feb 2013 -- The top United Nations envoy in Iraq has strongly condemned the coordinated attacks on the police headquarters in the northern city of Kirkuk today that killed dozens of people and injured many more.
- At Least 15 in Attack on Kirkuk Police HQ in Iraq VOA 03 Feb 2013 -- At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more injured by a truck-bomb explosion outside the main police headquarters in the sectarian and ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkouk. There has been increasing political tension between Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds in Iraq.
- Tens Of Thousands Rally Against Iraqi Prime Minister RFE/RL 01 Feb 2013 -- Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims have rallied in Iraq in another show of discontent with the Shi'ite-led government.
- Iraq's Chaldeans Get New Patriarch RFE/RL 01 Feb 2013 -- Bishops from the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic Church have chosen the archbishop of Kirkuk as their new patriarch.
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