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American gym teacher killed in Iraq shooting

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 11:15am

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- An American gym teacher at a school in the northern Iraqi Kurdish region was killed Thursday when a student in a crowded classroom pulled out a gun, shot the teacher and then as his terrified classmates fled the room, shot himself, officials and eyewitnesses said.

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Iraqi riot police officers prevent anti-government protesters from entering the Basra provincial headquarters during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators massed in the southern city of Basra to demand the ousting of the local governor, a day after a similar anti-government protest sparked violence that killed a few people.

Kurdish guards fire on protest in Iraq, killing 2

The Associated Press, Yahya Barzanji

Last updated Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 3:15pm

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Kurdish security guards opened fire Thursday on a crowd of protesters calling for political reforms in northern Iraq, killing at least two people, officials said, showing even war-weary Iraq cannot escape the unrest roiling the Middle East.

Separately, a car bomb killed eight people and wounded 30 others in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles (90 kilometers) north of Baghdad, an official said. The area was once one of the strongholds of al-Qaida, and insurgents there stage frequent attacks despite improved security in much of the country.

The demonstration in Sulaimaniyah was the most violent in a wave of protests that extended to the southern cities of Kut, Nasir and Basra. Iraq has seen small-scale demonstrations almost daily in recent weeks, mainly centered in the impoverished southern provinces and staged by Iraqis angry over a lack of basic services like electricity and clean drinking water.

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(KHALID MOHAMMED/The Associated Press) An Iraqi Kurdish woman (left) who lost her son in a chemical attack and an American woman embrace during a meeting of U.S. and Iraqi mothers in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on Sunday. Nine American mothers whose children died fighting in Iraq were embraced Sunday by dozens of Iraqi women who lost their own children during decades of war and violence in a meeting participants said brought them a measure of peace.

A day of compassion - Iraqi women embrace American mothers of war dead

The Associated Press, Yahya Barzanji

Last updated Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 9:02pm

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Nine American mothers whose children died fighting in Iraq were embraced Sunday by dozens of Iraqi women who lost their own children during decades of war and violence in a meeting participants said brought them a measure of peace.

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