A federal judge has ruled that the Research Triangle Institute can be sued in the United States for the deaths of two Iraqi women killed by their security guards.
The death toll from bomb attacks in Baghdad reached 37 as Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election, while a car bomb again targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in Najaf.
Doctors in the Iraq city of Fallujah report a huge boost in birth defects, with many saying the weapons used by US forces in the intense 2004 fighting are to blame.
Christian families are fleeing Mosul in droves in the aftermath of the murder of a Christian family in the city—a replay of the 2008 exodus in which thousands fled the city.
In one day, 67 corpses were brought to Baghdad morgue all shot with silencer guns. The gunmen drive in mainly four-wheel vehicles and quickly disappear from the crime scene.
A suicide blast killed 11, including a young girl, in Ramadi, while provincial officials in Maysan charge US forces shot eight “innocent bystanders” in a “massacre” during a village raid.
Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against the US and UK over their use of depleted uranium bombs based on findings of an increase in birth defects.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside of the Forsenics Lab of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Investigation Department, killing 21 people and injuring 80.
Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that charges may be brought again against six accused of massacring 17 people in Nisur Square, Baghdad, while working for Blackwater Worldwide.
Death squads returned to the streets of Baghdad with the first targeted killing of civilians in the city for more than two years, Iraqi media reported.
The Supreme Iraq Criminal Tribunal sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid to death by hanging, finding him guilty of having ordered the Kurdish town of Halabja gassed in 1988.
