The US Embassy in Kabul says ambassador Ryan Crocker will be leaving his post this summer.Mr Crocker, 62, came out...
US diplomat Ryan Crocker will be leaving his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer, an embassy spokesman has...
The blast came a day after SANA reported that authorities foiled an attempt to blow up a car rigged with explosives...
It struck during morning rush hour and the high death toll - some 55 people - made it the deadliest such attack...
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Kim Seung-Youn will take part in the signing ceremony, he said. Hanwha Engineering and Construction will build 100,000 new homes and lay infrastructure such as roads, water supply and sewer systems in the project at Besmaya, 10 kilometres (six miles)... Full Article at Channel News Asia
Triggered by the Iraq take-over of Kuwait, this aggression on the Iraqi people cannot be justified. I say that in no way defending the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for there can be no justification for such aggression. Instead this view reflects US... Full Article at Global Research
Iraq's Arbil club player Muslim Mubarak (L) runs with the ball past Akramov Iqboljon (R) of Uzbekistan's PFC Neftchi club during their Round of 16 Asian Cup football match at the Francois Hariri Stadium in Arbil on May 23, 2012. Arbil won the match 4-0... View Photo »
was still part of Halliburton when it won a large share of Pentagon contracts to build and manage US military bases in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
At stake is the threat that an Iran armed with nuclear weapons could pose to its neighbours. The US and Israel have indicated readiness to attack Iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail to curb its nuclear programme. Both suspect that Iran is aiming to... Full Article at Daily Express
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (R) walks with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton before their meeting in Baghdad. World powers pressing Iran to scale back its nuclear programme Wednesday offered a new batch of incentives that fell... Full Article at The Borneo Post
Texas (AP) — A Muslim U.S. soldier accused of planning to bomb Fort Hood troops says he wasn't seeking vengeance but justice for people in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recording played at his federal trial Wednesday. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo... Full Article at WVEC.com
Iraq's Arbil club player Muslim Mubarak (L) challenges Irmatov Dilyorbek (R) of Uzbekistan's PFC Neftchi club during their Round of 16 Asian Cup football match at the Francois Hariri Stadium in Arbil on May 23, 2012. View Photo »
We have been alongside NATO, or NATO has been alongside us, for 10 years in Afghanistan and Iraq
Council's five permanent members (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany, known as P5+1, as well as the EU, ended their first day of talks on Wednesday. However, the negotiating parties failed to reach a consensus over their... Full Article at China Daily
The deadliest attack occurred in Iraq's Anbar province Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit a bus, carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, in Ramadi city, about 110 km from Baghdad. It killed three pilgrims and wounded seven others, reported Xinhua citing a... Full Article at Webindia123
10 percent below the levels when the current round began. The most significant signal was a tentative accord announced Tuesday between Iran and the U.N.s International Atomic Energy Agency that could provide U.N. inspectors access to facilities and key... Full Article at The State
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
We are excited to work with Starwood to build our first hotel here in Iraq. Four Points by Sheraton has a strong reputation globally and this hotel will be a great addition to the city of Erbil
Obama: All U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012
We are delighted to partner with Ranj Co & Helar Co as we debut our Four Points by Sheraton brand in Iraq
Some people don’t know that we don’t have troops in Iraq anymore ... and so this is a good way to say listen, this war lasted longer than Korea longer than second World War, it’s one of the longest wars we had and it’s finally over and our men and women have come home.
Throughout his cultivation of the Bush Administration Raymond purposefully kept ExxonMobil at arm's length from the administration's attempts to remake post-Saddam Hussein Iraq
everything from Iraq to Thomas Jefferson to Charles Dickens to country music (some of which he was a fan of). I don’t remember who won the races, but I’ll always remember my weekend with this remarkable man.
It’s probably sacrilegious of me to say that I want some Republicans to win, but I want some Republican Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to win. I’d like to win and I want to see them in Washington, and I want for us to work together just as that post-World War II [generation] worked together to try and do...
I told him to make sure he was firm on Iran and Iraq and to help bring Gilad Shalit home. I don't like President Obama. He won't free Jonathan Pollard, even though he is unwell.
With his 27 years of service, three tours in Iraq and the fact that he was born and raised in central Illinois, (it) demonstrates he is the best person to represent Republicans on the ticket in the fall ... With all due respect, the final decision comes down to the voters of the 13th District.
killing as many peaceful civilians as possible and destroying civilian infrastructure remind one of what is happening in Iraq, Jordan and other places where Al-Qaeda and its groups operate
The CIA was considering sabotage, assassinations, and other aggressive actions to try and provoke a war with Saddam and destabilize his regime, all of this long before Congress authorized the invasion of Iraq
George Bush destroyed Iraq, what has happened to him?
Here we have the supreme irony of liberating a people to allow them to turn against you. Plus I wanted to underline the hypocrisy of Iraqi politicians. I think the Iraq war didn't do much for the U.S. or Iraq.
Today the United Nations joins Iraqis and Iraqi friends to call for an Iraq free of landmines by 2018
According to the EPA and the NHTSA, the model year 2017 to 2025 standards will cut U.S. oil consumption by 1.7 million barrels per day by 2030, which is equivalent to the combined U.S. imports from Saudi Arabia and Iraq in 2011 ... The standards will also cut carbon pollution by 297 million metric tons ...
We should not repeat the Iraq experience of the '90s of allowing Saddam Hussein to massacre his people while the world is undecided about what to do ... Time is not a neutral element. Time is measured by people being killed and by the regime gaining an upper hand.
There were some factors that led people to increase engagement in '02, '06, '08 — Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, not agreeing with Bush, 9/11, and obviously Obama and the use of new tools to mobilize
Rising supply to meet expected demand growth should come primarily from OPEC, where output is projected to rise by nearly 12 [million barrels per day]. The largest increments of new OPEC supply will come from [natural gas liquids] as well as conventional crude in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The Iraqi president on Friday presented to Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, minister of the diwan (royal court) of the Kuwaiti prince, a Brno rifle that belonged to Saddam Hussein which Talabani recovered after the liberation of Iraq
After the hosting of the latest Arab League Summit by Baghdad and the withdrawal of US troops from that country, Iraq proved it could play a determining role in regional developments and by hosting Iran’s negotiations… they also show they always support peace.
the Persian Gulf states, and indeed the entire Middle East, were profoundly affected by the Iran-Iraq War…and its sequels, the Gulf War of 1990-91 and the war against Iraq in 2003
One hundred and fifty cassettes. Both sides ... University lectures. Political speeches. I memorized George Bush’s debate with the other presidential candidates and his speech about going into Iraq. I could imitate their accents, their figures of speech. I’d imagine lamps and chairs and windows were peo...
Certain sides made enormous efforts to show that Iraq is outside the Arab world, but with holding the Arab League's summit in Baghdad, Iraq is currently at the top of the league, and the Iraqi prime minister has assumed the presidency of the Arab League.
after 9/11 the Churchill cult helped to persuade an untutored president [George W. Bush] that the liberation of Iraq from Saddam would be like the liberation of Europe from Hitler.
A State Department official has accused a high ranking member of the diplomatic corps of improper sexual behavior in Iraq.
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Iraq and Syria: This view was given further credence last week when Credit Suisse Group AG raised its forecast for Brent crude for this year by 20pc to $125/barrel (€96/barrel) on the back of rising demand and continuing turmoil in Syria and Iraq.
Iraq and Iran: The answer of course lies in that other mistake of the Bush administration, arguably the biggest single foreign policy blunder in all US history: the war of choice against Iraq that has succeeded only in strengthening the position of America's arch enemy Iran across the entire region.
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.
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