http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tal_AfarFind stories, videos, and photos about Tal Afar from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:47:47 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tal_Afar14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Tal Afar from CNN.com.http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.blast/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.blast/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least nine people were killed and at least 30 were wounded Friday in a suicide attack targeting Sunni Muslim worshipers at a mosque in northern Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:32:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/10/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/10/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextA drive-by shooting Friday in Baghdad marked the third day of attacks across the country that have killed 75 people, officials said.Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:12:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCTextA roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian bystander Thursday, a police official told CNN.Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:19:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA roadside bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital has killed a senior member of the Sadr Movement's influential parliamentary bloc, a party official told CNN Thursday.Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:53:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/21/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/21/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextNine bombings in Iraq on Sunday wounded dozens of people and killed seven, including an official in the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation department, a ministry official said.Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:51:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/07/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/07/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least six people were killed and 50 wounded when a suicide car bomber apparently staged a traffic accident to draw more victims to the explosion.Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:32:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least six people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday at an outdoor market in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:58:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/25/iraq.contractor.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/25/iraq.contractor.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTextA U.S. defense contractor has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman at an American base in Iraq, the FBI said Monday.Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:24:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/08/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/08/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA bombing at a crowded outdoor market in northern Iraq on Friday killed 21 people and wounded 50 others, according to police.Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:10:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/16/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/16/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least 15 people were killed and 90 wounded Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in a popular outdoor market in northern Iraq, a police official said.Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:05:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/10/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/10/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextThree prominent tribal leaders, including the head of Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribe and two others who had been working for national reconciliation, were killed over the past 24 hours in northern Iraq.Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:31:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1653161,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1653161,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsWhat appears to be the worst death toll from suicide bombings may be a side effect of "success" in the Iraqi capitalWed, 15 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCTextA suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a village near the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 50 others, an Iraqi army official said. Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:08:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/27/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/27/iraq.main/index.htmlSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah has denied Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki entrance into Saudi Arabia, according to a senior Saudi intelligence source.Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:46:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/20/iraq.ambush/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/20/iraq.ambush/index.htmlSix security guards were wounded Thursday night when gunmen ambushed the convoy of a top Shiite leader's son, said Haytham al-Hussaini, a spokesman for the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/14/iraq.rape/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/14/iraq.rape/index.htmlIraqi militants claim to have "detained" 20 Iraqi security force members in response to an alleged rape that has heightened Sunni-Shiite tensions.Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:07:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/iraq.main/index.htmlTen coalition troops were killed in Iraq over the last two days, four of them in the deadliest attack on British troops since November, the U.S. and British militaries said Thursday.Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:38:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/02/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/02/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar last week is the deadliest single attack since the Iraq war began in 2003, a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new death toll for the blast surfaced.Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:47:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/28/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/28/iraq.main/index.htmlShiite policemen are being blamed for a wave of shooting deaths Wednesday in Tal Afar that authorities are characterizing as revenge for two truck bombs that left dozens dead a day earlier.Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:13:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.htmlTwo truck bombs Tuesday killed at least 50 people in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar.Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:07:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/24/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/24/iraq.main/index.htmlA terrorist group linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for Friday's assassination attempt on Iraq's deputy prime minister and warned of future attacks on other "traitors."Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:45:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/index.htmlA U.S. military commander Thursday said a raid outside Falluja two days ago discovered a home-grown factory for car bombs that included a metal shop, explosives and cylinders of toxic chlorine gas and other chemicals.Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:25:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/08/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/08/iraq.main/index.htmlCoalition forces killed 20 people they identified as insurgents, destroyed weapons caches and arrested seven suspected terrorists in two security sweeps in Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said.Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:09:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/07/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/07/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide truck bomber hit an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing at least 14 people and wounding 13 in the northern city of Tal Afar on Saturday morning, police and hospital officials said.Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:31:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlJust hours after a suicide bomber killed 20 people in northern Iraq, U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday that the nation is in "grave danger" of falling into civil war.Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:12:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.main/index.htmlBaghdad's morgue reported that 1,091 people were killed in the city's daily violence in April, the Iraqi president's office said in a statement Wednesday.Wed, 10 May 2006 08:56:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 35 others Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, Iraqi police officials said.Tue, 09 May 2006 11:54:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/21/bush.transcript/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/21/bush.transcript/index.htmlPresident Bush held a news conference Tuesday at the White House, focusing primarily on the war in Iraq.Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:39:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/20/bush.iraq/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/20/bush.iraq/index.htmlIn the face of flagging support for the war, President Bush said Monday that though Americans might be dismayed by events in Iraq, he sees signs of progress.Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/09/iraq.main.1639/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/09/iraq.main.1639/index.htmlTwo suicide bombers disguised as senior police officers killed at least 23 Iraqi police and wounded 21 others outside the main entrance of the Interior Ministry, Baghdad emergency police said.Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:39:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.violence/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.violence/index.htmlA suicide bomber killed 30 people and wounded 40 more at an Iraqi army and police recruitment center near the Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Wednesday, the director of the city's hospital told CNN.Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:50:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.bombs/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.bombs/index.htmlTwo car bombs killed dozens of Iraqis on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on the country's constitution.Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:01:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/28/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/28/iraq.main/index.htmlPresident Bush predicted Wednesday that insurgents would launch a new wave of attacks aimed at disrupting upcoming Iraqi elections, but he said that "our troops are ready for it."Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:52:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/23/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/23/iraq.main/index.htmlTen Iraqi militiamen were killed early Sunday in clashes with U.S. forces in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources told CNN.Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:39:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.main/index.htmlCoalition forces killed six insurgents in northern Iraq on Sunday during raids on al Qaeda in Iraq safe houses, the U.S. military said.Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:01:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.htmlA car bombing in a town on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad killed 30 people and wounded 38 others on Saturday evening, emergency police said.Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:42:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/15/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/15/iraq.main/index.htmlThree suicide car bombs erupted Thursday in a south Baghdad neighborhood, part of a series of attacks that killed at least 30 people -- many of them police officers.Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:25:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.htmlInsurgents on Wednesday unleashed a spate of suicide car bombings and other attacks in Baghdad and other towns, killing at least 151 people and wounded more than 300 in one of the war's most violent days.Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:41:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.main/index.htmlMeeting Tuesday with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, President Bush renewed his pledge to assist Baghdad in building a democracy and to help the fledgling government defeat insurgents.Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:57:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/11/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/11/iraq.main/index.htmlAn estimated 6,600 families have fled the northern Iraq city of Tal Afar in recent months amid a rise in the insurgency there, a senior official with Iraq's Ministry of Displacement and Migration told CNN Monday.Sun, 11 Sep 2005 06:27:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/10/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/10/iraq.main/index.htmlU.S. and Iraqi soldiers have been going from house to house in the restive northern city of Tal Afar to ferret out militants in an operation that will continue until it is "freed from insurgents," military officials said.Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:49:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.main/index.htmlViolence in several Iraqi hotspots Monday claimed more coalition and insurgent deaths in pitched battles and ambushes up and down the war-torn country.Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:26:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/mosul.letter/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/mosul.letter/index.htmlA letter apparently written by a rebel leader to terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi decries the insurgency's leadership in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a hotspot in the war.Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:04:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/21/iraq.tal.afar/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/21/iraq.tal.afar/index.htmlAs U.S. soldiers construct a wall around the troubled city of Tal Afar to keep out fighters and weapons, residents are fleeing in fear of an imminent military attack by American and Iraqi forces against insurgents still in the city, according to a senior military commander.Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:09:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/10/arraf.afar/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/10/arraf.afar/index.htmlKhadija's father bribed and begged to get past a police checkpoint to bring his infant daughter to a hospital most people are afraid to enter.Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:19:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraq.main/index.htmlU.S. and Iraqi troops on Tuesday launched an offensive against insurgents in the northwestern city of Tal Afar -- not far from the Syrian border.Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:09:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/06/iraq.ghost.town/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/06/iraq.ghost.town/index.html"Wakhrou min houn" is a semi-rude way to tell someone to get lost in Arabic, but it's what Miriam Elias, a Turkmen Shiite married to a Sunni, said to four insurgents trying to launch an attack on an Iraqi army post from near her home in northeastern Tal Afar.Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:38:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.main/index.htmlThe U.S. military has bulked up its presence in northwestern Iraq near Syria, signaling another clampdown on insurgents who have crossed over the long, porous Iraq-Syria border.Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:22:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/27/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/27/iraq.main/index.htmlWanted militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the man thought to be behind many of the insurgent attacks in Baghdad and across Iraq -- is "well and leading jihadi operations," an Islamist Web site posting claimed Friday.Fri, 27 May 2005 11:11:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/23/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/23/iraq.main/index.htmlA series of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq on Monday killed at least 43 people and wounded dozens, Iraqi officials said.Mon, 23 May 2005 05:59:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/07/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/07/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide car bomb targeting an SUV convoy exploded at a busy intersection in central Baghdad and killed at least 22 people, according to the chief spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.Sat, 07 May 2005 08:05:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/index.htmlHours after six car bombs rocked separate locations in Baghdad and Mosul, two more exploded late Monday, including one targeting a U.S. military convoy near the Abu Ghraib prison, Iraqi police said.Mon, 02 May 2005 07:48:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.main/index.htmlA suicide attack Sunday in Iraq during the funeral of a Kurdish party member killed about 25 people, according to the deputy governor of Nineveh province.Sun, 01 May 2005 06:43:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/29/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/29/iraq.main/index.htmlThe Iraqi National Assembly failed to choose a speaker Tuesday after arguments broke out among lawmakers and reporters were ordered to leave the session.Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:43:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.htmlFighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence.Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:50:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/29/iraq.main/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/29/iraq.main/index.htmlClashes between U.S. forces and armed insurgents early Sunday near Mosul, northern Iraq, wounded 34 people, two of them seriously.Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:03:00 EDT