Los Angeles Times | Squad mate testifies in Marine's Iraq deaths trial CBS News A former squad mate of a Marine implicated in one of the Iraq War's highest profile war crimes cases testified Tuesday that the group raced to nearby homes after a roadside bombing, firing rounds and tossing grenades for 45 minutes, even though the ... Squad mate testifies about Iraq assault that led to criminal case against ... |
ABC News | Latest Iraq Attacks Kill 10, Including Schoolboys ABC News By MAZIN YAHYA AP Three schoolboys were among at least 10 people killed in Iraq on Tuesday, extending a wave of bloody attacks that have rocked the country since American troops pulled out. Several of the Tuesday attacks struck predominantly Sunni ... Iraq blasts: Schoolboys among eight people killed |
Ancient Language Gets Extended Life In Iraq Wall Street Journal By BROOKE ANDERSON | Special to the Wall Street Journal Europe ANKAWA, Iraq—It is commonly known as the language of Jesus and is the root of both Arabic and Hebrew. But what's less widely known is that Aramaic is still spoken, and is in fact thriving ... |
Fox News | Iraq's PM Maliki: democrat or autocrat? Reuters But the move to arrest Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and a demand that parliament remove Maliki's Sunni deputy, Saleh al-Mutlaq, ignited a political storm that threatens Iraq's shaky US-backed coalition and, for some, has called into question ... Why Iraq's plight imperils US goals Al-Qaeda-linked group asserts responsibility for 37 Baghdad attacks Analysis: Iraq's plight imperils US goals |
Telegraph.co.uk | Gas at the Pump Could Go To $20 If War Comes to the Straits of Hormuz New York Sun A clash would be the third armed conflict after Iraq and Afghanistan. The former two began triumphantly until they transformed into quagmires. How is a new conflict likely to evolve? Iran has used American hostages in the past to extract money. ... Iran Could Strike US in Afghanistan, Iraq Iran's roar shows widening sway of military The road to another war |
Weekly Alibi | My Iraq War Weekly Alibi By Alex E. Limkin By the time President Obama took office in 2008, we knew that everything the Bush administration said in its pitch for war against Iraq was lies. We'd learned that Saddam Hussein had no connection to al-Qaida and nothing to do with ... The Terms on Which We Left: Why The Iraq War Ended GOP candidates walk a tightrope on Iraq General wrong; war in Iraq was unnecessary |
New York Times | After Combat, Fear and Danger Fill Driver's Seat New York Times A combat tour in Iraq changed all that. Back in the States, Ms. Max, an Army reservist, found herself avoiding cramped parking lots without obvious escape routes. She straddled the middle line, as if bombs might be buried in the curbs. ... After combat, new challenge in driver's seat |
Shi'ites brave crisis, bombs for Iraq pilgrimage Chicago Tribune BAGHDAD/SHALAMCHA CROSSING, Iraq (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims are pouring into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala, despite having become the main targets of a bombing campaign that followed the withdrawal of US troops last month. ... |
Latest Iraq attacks kill 8, including schoolboys CBS News (AP) BAGHDAD — Three schoolboys were among at least eight people killed in Iraq on Tuesday in the latest in a wave of attacks to hit the country since American troops pulled out. The attacks, some of which targeted security forces, struck ... |
Al-Arabiya | Israeli Mossad recruiting Iranian exiles in Iraq's Kurdish region: report Al-Arabiya “The Mossad agents have increased their infiltration in the Kurdish regions of Iraq,” the unnamed security official was quoted as saying. He said Iranian refugees in the Kurdish regions opposed to the current regime in Tehran are being recruited by the ... Iran Puts a Weak America in Its Sights, With Big Plans for the Future Iran Nuclear Weapons Charge Is No Slam Dunk: Robert Kelley Iran's nuclear program: What intelligence would suffice? |