RT | Bombings, Shootings in Iraq Kill 19 People ABC News A bomb exploded on a busy street filled with shoppers in northern Iraq, part of a series of attacks that killed at least 19 people Friday, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence roiling the country. The explosion struck a commercial street in ... Iraq 2013: Deadliest year since 2008 with 7000+ killed Bombings across Iraq kill at least 12 Iraq attacks kill seven |
Voice of America | Council leader, family killed in their sleep in Iraq; separate attacks on base ... CNN (CNN) -- Gunmen burst into the home of a local leader Thursday in Iraq, killing him and five of his family members as they slept. The attackers then planted explosives and blew up the home, police said. The attack took place in Tikrit. Elsewhere, a ... In Turnaround, Iraq's Maliki Seeks US Assistance Analysis: Maliki bolsters Iraq re-election chances Russia Supplies 44 Military Helicopters to Iraq after US Snub |
Why did we go to war in Iraq? Washington Post (blog) EK: But it wasn't hijacked by Iraq. The Bush administration chose that war. And, to be honest, that's what I read the book to understand. I've never felt like I understood the reason the Bush administration decided to go to war in Iraq. Once that ... |
Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan Battle Lung Trouble Wall Street Journal After convoys through sandstorms and exposure to trash burning in open pits during a tour each in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has changed. In a recent physical-fitness test, he couldn't complete a mile run without stopping to walk. "I felt like I was ... |
Amnesty International | Iraq: Executions at their highest in post-Saddam Iraq Amnesty International A sharp increase in the use of the death penalty in Iraq has brought the number of known executions to the highest in the decade since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003, with at least seven prisoners sent to the gallows yesterday, sparking fears ... |
Foreign Policy (blog) | Why I don't care about Iraq anymore (II): Was that war just a drunken hook-up? Foreign Policy (blog) If you didn't read the entire discussion the other day about why Jim Gourley no longer cares about what happens in Iraq, despite having given a big part of his life there, do yourself a favor. Find a quiet place, sit down, and read all the comments. I ... |
Aljazeera.com | Several killed in string of Iraq attacks Aljazeera.com At least 14 people have been killed and 30 others injured in a string of attacks across Iraq, with the worst targeting a police headquarters near Baquba, officials say. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a concrete blast wall ... |
Iraq-Turkey Pipeline Capacity Increase Near Complete Bloomberg The main northern crude export pipeline, running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, operates at far below its designed capacity of 1.6 million barrels a day after years of disrepair amid international sanctions ... |
NSA spat tougher on US-German ties than Iraq war was The Voice of Russia Wolfgang Ischinger, Germany's ambassador to Washington at the time of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, said Friday that the NSA espionage scandal is more damaging to bilateral relations than the country's dispute over the Iraq war was. "I think this, at ... |
Daily Mail | Bid to keep No10 files secret halts Iraq report: Cabinet Secretary blocks ... Daily Mail The long-awaited report into how Britain went to war in Iraq has been delayed indefinitely by a row over new transcripts of conversations between Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot has revealed that he has ... Iraq war probe delay 'intolerable' Government's delay over Iraq inquiry 'is intolerable' Public should be told the whole truth about Iraq |