AFP | IRAQ: Fear Of The Iranian Ally Strategy Page October 25, 2012: Iraqi Shia from pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have been encountered in Syria. Many of them are not there to back the Assad government but to protect Shia religious shrines. There is growing fear that the Syrian rebels, especially the ... Iraq looks to reinstate disbanded army officers Iraqi Shi'ites Brace for Violence amid Syria Fears Patterns of Violence in Iraq |
NDTV | Iraq: Attacks Kill 12, Including Schoolboy ABC News A 9-year-old schoolboy was among at least 12 people that insurgents killed across Iraq on Wednesday, rattling nerves ahead of a holiday weekend. Violence has declined since the height of Iraq's insurgency, but the attacks once again showed that Sunni ... Iraq: Attacks kill 8 people in Iraq Iraq attacks kill 15 in deadliest day this month Iraq: At least 9 killed in separate attacks in Baghdad |
The Weekly Standard | US intel believes some Benghazi attackers tied to al Qaeda in Iraq CNN (blog) ... the North African wing of the terror group. The revelation that members of al Qaeda in Iraq are suspected of involvement in the Libya attack comes at a time when there is a growing number of fighters from that group also taking part in the Syrian ... CNN: Al-Qaeda in Iraq May Be Linked to Benghazi Benghazi attackers may have included al Qaeda in Iraq More Al Qaeda Connections in Benghazi |
Foreign Policy (blog) | An Afghanistan/Iraq vet says Romney should run the Pentagon like Bain Capital Foreign Policy (blog) Michael Cummings is veteran and a writer, who deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 with the 173rd Airborne Brigade as a platoon leader, and Iraq in 2010 with 5th Special Forces Group as an intelligence officer. He run a milblog at On Violence and currently ... You carried the fight to the enemy, Carter says |
The Daily Star | Report: Iran's army plans military exercise near border with Iraq Washington Post TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian semiofficial news agency says the army is planning a “unique” military exercise along the country's border with Iraq. The ISNA agency on Thursday quoted a senior army commander Gen. Saeed Arabloo as saying the three-day ... Iran Plans Army Drill Near Border With Iraq |
United Liberty | WaPo skewers Obama for jeopardizing Iraq and Afghanistan, while endorsing him Washington Examiner “[Obama] failed to capitalize on America's decade-long commitment to Iraq by securing a presence there after ending the U.S. military mission, and his ambivalence regarding Afghanistan — sending more troops, but with artificial deadlines and no clear ... Veterans' College Drop-Out Rate Soars Obama ad takes Romney remarks on Iraq and Afghanistan out of context Veterans, public invited to free Nov. 10 Iraq War symposium at UW Oshkosh |
Iraq Basrah Light Crude Exports Stable at 46 Cargoes in November Bloomberg Iraq will ship 46 cargoes of Basrah Light crude from the Persian Gulf in November, unchanged from October, a loading program obtained by Bloomberg News showed. A total of 73.9 million barrels of crude, or 2.46 million barrels a day, will be exported ... |
Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog) | Iraq diary: The dying marshes of the Tigris and Euphrates Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog) Then Turkey and northern Iraq began diverting the Tigris to other uses along its path and the flow dropped four-fold, so low that it could no long move along the incline to meet the Euphrates dike. As the marshes dried up, evaporated, and disappeared ... |
AFP (blog) | Iraq: violence on a spreadsheet AFP (blog) One of the most depressing daily tasks that we have in the Baghdad bureau is to track daily incidences of violence across Iraq, and I use the term daily quite literally. Days without reports of attacks somewhere in the country are atypical here, though ... Iraq Endures Day of Violence Ahead of Holiday Shootings, explosions take at least 12 lives in Iraq |
A USFSP professor is challenged in war-weary Iraq to inspire an ... Tampabay.com Jackson, who teaches at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, spent 45 days in Iraq sharing his insights with university teachers about how to encourage business startups and entrepreneurial activity. While in Baghdad, Jackson lived at one ... |