<< Back

---

Despite Challenges, Banks Look to Set Up Branches in Iraq - New York Times Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:45:50 GMT

Despite Challenges, Banks Look to Set Up Branches in Iraq New York Times According to the Web site of the Central Bank of Iraq, the country is served by 7 state-owned banks, 32 private banks and 15 foreign banks. But analysts say that a handful of state-owned banks — and two in particular, Rafidain Bank and Rasheed Bank ...

---

Iraq War Actors Have No Shame - Consortium News Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:05:51 GMT

Consortium News

Iraq War Actors Have No Shame Consortium News As wretched as the Iraq War was, the absence of any meaningful accountability for the U.S. policymakers and pundits who made the catastrophe happen is nearly as stomach-turning. Every day the same faces show up on the TV talk shows and Op-Ed pages ... The Obnoxious Revisionism of Iraq War Dead-endersThe American Conservative (blog) Scoring Our Four Iraq WarsTIME shameless lies about IraqSocialist Worker Online Daily Camera -Rockport Pilot -Coos Bay World all 46 news articles »

---

Iraq Seeks to Boost Crude Exports to China as Oil Output Rises - Bloomberg Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:36:01 GMT

Iraq Seeks to Boost Crude Exports to China as Oil Output Rises Bloomberg Iraq is seeking a long-term accord to boost oil exports to China as OPEC's second-biggest producer increases output from fields operated by companies such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi said. The Middle Eastern ... and more »

---

Iraq Asks The US To Bomb Jihadists On Its Border With Syria - Business Insider Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:41:35 GMT

Business Insider

Iraq Asks The US To Bomb Jihadists On Its Border With Syria Business Insider And as far as the U.S. State Department is concerned, the extremists on the border fall under the umbrella of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), including those who killed 48 Syrian soldiers and eight Iraqis as well as the dominant Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra. Syria, Iraq jihadi groups form allianceLongview News-Journal Iraq: Syrian Rebels Breathe New Life into Iraqi InsurgencyAntiwar.com all 17 news articles »

---

Terrorist MKO serious concern for Iraq, region: Iraqi PM - Press TV Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:05:31 GMT

Press TV

Terrorist MKO serious concern for Iraq, region: Iraqi PM Press TV The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, blamed for the assassination of many Iranian people and officials after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, fled to Iraq in the 1980s where they enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who allowed them ... Moslehi Calls for Expediting Expulsion of MKO from IraqFars News Agency all 7 news articles »

---

Iraq: 4 Newspapers Are Attacked - New York Times Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:17:31 GMT

Iraq: 4 Newspapers Are Attacked New York Times About 50 gunmen in military uniforms burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, stabbing and beating employees, staff members and officials said Tuesday. The raiders attacked reporters with batons and knives and smashed ... and more »

---

Siemens to join energy project in Iraq - Hurriyet Daily News Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:00:30 GMT

Hurriyet Daily News

Siemens to join energy project in Iraq Hurriyet Daily News Toyota Tsusho and Siemens Turkey have signed a deal to join forces in the project that aims to develop the energy supply in Iraq. Siemens will build 24 transformer distribution centers for Toyota Tsusho that will have a 31.5 megawatt capacity in total.

---

The Bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: $4 to $6 Trillion - the Diplomat (blog) Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:11:42 GMT

MercoPress

The Bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: $4 to $6 Trillion the Diplomat (blog) “The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in U.S. history – totaling somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion. This includes long-term medical care and disability compensation for service members, veterans and ... Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the costliest in US history equivalent to 40% of GDPMercoPress Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan wars could rise to $6 trillionWorld Socialist Web Site Paying the Costs of Iraq, for Decades to ComeThe Atlantic ThinkProgress -Wichita State Sunflower -Los Angeles Times all 38 news articles »

---

Gunmen in Iraq kill Sunni militiaman, his mother - Yahoo! News Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:23:22 GMT

UN News Centre

Gunmen in Iraq kill Sunni militiaman, his mother Yahoo! News Baghdad (AP) — Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead a member of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni militia along with his mother. A police official said Yousef Sayhoud was killed on Wednesday in his home in the suburb of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad. He said ... 4 al Qaeda leaders executed in Iraq; parliament wants to discuss securityCNN Iraq: UN officials condemn wave of attacks against media professionalsUN News Centre Police dead in Iraq suicide blastAljazeera.com Reuters -Fox News -CNN International all 80 news articles »

---

The Iraq Invasion Convinced North Korea That It Needed Nukes - Business Insider Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:59:43 GMT

Business Insider

The Iraq Invasion Convinced North Korea That It Needed Nukes Business Insider America's March 2003 invasion of Iraq was supposed to stem the tide of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Looking back, however, we can say that the invasion has actually spurred, not stemmed the tide of nuclear weapon development. and more »