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In response to the expulsion of envoys, Syria has told Tunisia and Libya to close their missions here. Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims living in neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to join the rebellion against the “pernicious,... Full Article at Irish Times
Iraq inaugurated a new offshore oil export terminal in the Gulf Sunday in a vital step to ease infrastructure constraints and to bring sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and sanctions.During a ceremony in the oil-rich province... Full Article at Lebanon Daily Star
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian... View Photo »
I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays.
That parliament’s legitimacy has never been questioned; its longevity is a testament to the strength of the country’s process of political and institutional modernization. In contrast, the U.S. military only recently pulled out of Iraq, and that... Full Article at Lebanon Daily Star
"Some of the individuals arrested have been instrumental in breaking important stories about public bodies, for example the scandal of our under resourced troops in Iraq .... We must take care not to pre-judge the outcome of the police interviews," he... Full Article at Reuters Mobile
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq, the military said yesterday – its second cross-border air strike in just over a week. The jets hit rebel shelters in Iraq’s Zap and Hakurk regions, near the border, in an operation that began... Full Article at The Scotsman
This frame grabbed image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, purports to show al-Qaida's leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a still image from a web posting by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab,... View Photo »
The Baath Party fell with Saddam in Iraq in 2003. Until it is toppled in Syria, regional instability can only grow.
“You know better what they are planning against you. Our people in Syria, don’t depend on the Arab League and its corrupt governments supporting it.” Claims surfaced over the weekend that al-Qaeda linked militants have moved from Iraq into Syria. ... Full Article at The Scotsman
“Some of the individuals arrested have been instrumental in breaking important stories about public bodies, for example the scandal of our under resourced troops in Iraq... We must take care not to pre-judge the outcome of the police interviews,” he said. Full Article at Independent Online (South Africa)
It would raise $41 billion over 10 years by eliminating tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies and claims significant savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lew said the budget would cut spending by $2.50 for every $1 in extra taxes... Full Article at Myrtle Beach Sun News
The Republic of Iraq (conventional short form: Iraq) (Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays.
The Baath Party fell with Saddam in Iraq in 2003. Until it is toppled in Syria, regional instability can only grow.
the military budget may be cut by up to a trillion dollars over a decade, far more than the $400 billion in 12-year savings that President Obama had proposed in his April 13, 2011, speech that signaled the White House's full engagement on the deficit issue ⌠above and beyond savings that will result, a...
and we're going to have to take action around the world to protect ourselves, and hopefully we can do it as we did with Osama bin Laden, as opposed to going to war, as we had to do in the case of Iraq. The right way...to keep us from having to go to those wars is to have a military so strong that no one...
because major representatives of the country’s Sunni Arabs have no interest in resorting to violence or start collaborating with al Qaeda in Iraq.
They could have been held as power plays by one Iraq department against another, but what adds to the problem is that it does not appear that the State Department is doing anything near what they could be doing
The United States, with Tony Blair as head cheerleader, will attack Iraq without proper authority, and a major war, the largest since World War II, will result.
Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq
It's neither stable nor democratic, frankly speaking ... The terrorists are hitting again very severely, and Al-Qaeda is fully operational now in Iraq.
If Amnesty International had any intellectual honesty, it would give President Bush a medal to honor him for liberating so many oppressed Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and for assisting millions of AIDS victims in Africa
Indeed, in the past, embargoes imposed on Iraq did nothing to put the targeted Saddam Hussein regime behind the eight ball, but rather added to the existing misery of the Iraqi people. Likewise, the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina paved the way for massacres and proved lethal to Muslim Bosni...
Would president Obama ever consider sending trainers back into Iraq
The Sadrist Trend, led by the young Shiite Clergyman, Muqtada al-Sadr, had called for demonstrations all over Iraq today, in protest to the visit by US Vice-President, Joe Biden, to Iraq, considering the visit as an 'interference in Iraq's internal affairs.'
For the past five years, GML consultants have worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Horn of Africa providing procurement and acquisition management expertise to prime contractors supporting Department of Defense and Department of State mission needs for the United States Government (USD)
document, sent by the Intelligence Body of Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, confirming the involvement of al-Mahdi Army with the incident, demanding the government to detain those behind the assassination attempt.
Remembering what NATO did in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Russia has no barriers, moral or legal ones, for the use of force in the Caspian Sea.
We've passed a very difficult page of confronting al-Qaida and terrorism in Iraq during which we achieved joint success ... We made many sacrifices from both sides
President Obama’s administration kept its promises in Iraq ... violence decreased in the last two years to its lowest levels since 2003.
Biden flew to Iraq to participate in US-Iraqi Higher Coordinating Committee’s meetings and to convene with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Al Nujaifi as well as other Iraqi politicians
In October, President Obama announced that most U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, after negotiations with Iraqi leaders failed to extend the troops’ presence. Only Marine embassy guards and liaison troops will stay behind in the country, where more than a million troops, in total, hav...
Surely to prove that our politicians are dishonest men, and as such may have dishonest motives when they sent our boys to be killed in Iraq and in Afghanistan, is more important than jailing me for saying I hacked David Beckham's phone, for example, if I was going to say that
no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
President Obama's decision ... to not leave a small, focused presence in Iraq is a mistake and the product of his administration's failures
I'm new, but I'm certainly experienced. My life has been spent around the world, looking down the barrels of guns of Somali warlords trying to stop an aid ship coming into a port. My last job was heading up a United Nations aid programme in Iraq.
The new venture will be called Basra Gas Company, with Iraq holding a 51% stake, Royal Dutch Shell’s 44% and Mitsubishi 5%.
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Iraq and Malaysia: The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is an initiative of Malaysia's retired prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraq and Syria: Of the Arab League's 22 members, only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against the suspension of Syria, with Iraq abstaining.
Iraq and Kuwait: With violence appearing to be on the rise, Iraq also finds itself facing a political crisis after the Shiite-dominated government charged Sunni vice president Tareq al-Hashemi with running death squads, issuing an arrest warrant against him just as the last US soldiers crossed into neighbouring Kuwait.
Iraq and Yemen: Of the Arab League's 22 members, only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against the suspension of Syria, with Iraq abstaining.
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