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| May.1 |
 Iran |
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Iraq to confront Iran over aid to militants Iraqi lawmakers are in Iran to confront their neighbors with evidence showing Iran is training and arming the insurgency
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| May.3 |
Tehran |
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Iran denies militia backing in Iraq An Iraqi delegation in Tehran confronted Iranian officials with evidence that Iran is smuggling weapons and explosive devices into Iraq
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| May.4 |
 Baghdad |
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Iraq First Lady survives bombing| President Jalal Talabani's wife, Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, has escaped unhurt after a bomb attack on her motorcade | |
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| May.5 |
Iran |
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 Iran: No talks until U.S. stops Iraq attacks An Iranian official says the government wants the U.S. to stop its 'savage attacks' before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi o...
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| May.6 |
Iraq |
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 3,500 U.S. troops to head home from Iraq 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, a 'surge' brigade deployed to Iraq last year, is heading back to the United States
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| May.7 |
Guantanamo |
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 Gitmo detainee became suicide bomber| Pentagon: Kuwaiti man Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi released from U.S. custody in 2005 blew himself up in a suicide attack in Iraq last month | |
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| May.8 |
Mosul |
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Leader of al Qaeda in Iraq captured  Map of Mosul Iraq| Abu Ayyub Al-Masri took the reins of the Iraqi al Qaeda offshoot in June 2006 after a U.S. missile strike killed his predecessor, al-Zarqawi | |
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| May.9 |
Iraq |
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 U.S.: al Qaeda in Iraq leader not captured The U.S. military in Iraq denied widespread reports that trumpeted the capture of a top Iraqi insurgent leader
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| May.10 |
Sadr City |
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Cease-fire reached in Sadr City The government and Muqtada al-Sadr's movement have agreed to a cease-fire to end weeks of fighting in Sadr City district
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| May.15 |
Iraq |
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Abu Ghraib bomber was teenage boy Witnesses say the attacker was about 13 or 14 years old, ''wearing jeans, modern clothing and had a youngster's hair style'
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Baghdad |
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Iranian embassy employees shot Gunmen in northern Baghdad fired on two SUVs carrying the five employees and driver
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| May.16 |
Sunni Triangle |
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Police beat news photographer Map of Fallujah Iraq An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized after police beat him at the scene of a bombing. 7 people were killed in the suicide bombing
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| May.17 |
Baghdad |
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U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, in the western outskirts
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Baghdad |
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 Speaker Pelosi leads delegation U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a group of lawmakers on a trip to Iraq for a visit, 'a pre-Memorial Day chance to express appreciation to troops'
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| May.25 |
Baghdad |
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 Blast wounds five near Turkish Embassy A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol went off near the Embassy in the Waziriya neighborhood
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| May.26 |
Northern Iraq |
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Teens trained for suicide bombings Iraqi soldiers rounded up 6 teenagers who were being trained, against their will, to carry out suicide bombings for al Qaeda
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| May.27 |
Baghdad |
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Al Sadr: Let Iraqis decide on U.S. troops Shiite cleric: An agreement between the U.S. and Iraq to allow U.S. troops to remain operating in Iraq past 2008 should be put to a referendum
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| May.28 |
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  UN hosts key conference on Iraq| Envoys from nearly 100 countries are gathering for a forum on economic and political reform in Iraq and to review a five-year package | |
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| May.29 |
Iraq |
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FIFA lifts Iraq ban ahead of Cup date World governing body FIFA has provisionally and conditionally lifted its year-long suspension of Iraq's football association
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| May.31 |
Baghdad |
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Security talks worry Shiites and Sunnis| Many suspect Iraqi-U.S. security talks could lead to the establishment of bases, a long-term presence of American troops | |
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