U.S. News & World Report | What Will 'Arrested Development' Be Without the Iraq War? U.S. News & World Report Early in the series, the Bluths learn that family patriarch George is being charged with "light treason" for building model homes for Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. It's an accusation that chases the Bluths through the entire three seasons, as ... |
AFP | Iraq's Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country Into Deadly Spiral TIME In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians. While on a patrol on a highway 20 km south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting ... 'US opened Pandora's box in Iraq, regional sectarian violence almost ... Are the dark days returning to Iraq? Deadliest Attacks in Iraq Since US Troop Pullout |
The Guardian | bombings continue across Iraq Aljazeera.com Attacks in Iraq have killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 100 others, a day after a series of bombings killed 77 people across the country, officials have said. In the latest incident, a car bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque on Tuesday in ... All-Out Civil War in Iraq? Attacks in Iraq kill over 40, sectarian tensions high Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war |
BP to invest $2.85 billion in Iraq's largest oilfield Fox Business BASRA – Oil major BP has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters On Wednesday. Boosting output from Rumaila, Iraq's most ... |
Iraq vet tells his war story Ct Post Iraq veteran and Wounded Warrior Project representative Erick Millette is the guest speaker at the Town of Stratford's 2013 Veterans Breakfast at Vazzano's Four Seasons banquet facility in Stratford, Conn. on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Photo: Brian A. |
BP's Iraq Investment to Reach $5 Billion by 2016 Fox Business U.K. oil major BP PLC (BP) plans to increase the production capacity at the Rumaila oilfield, the largest in Iraq, by 750,000 barrels per day by 2017, and aims to increase its spending in the country to $5 billion a year from the current $2.6 billion ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Iraq's demand for Hello Kitty keeps one Aleppo factory open as others close doors Christian Science Monitor In opposition-controlled Aleppo, once the economic heart of Syria, few businesses have survived the war, which has reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble amid fighting, scud missile attacks, airstrikes, and artillery bombardment. Skip to next paragraph ... |
International Business Times | Iraq: The Fundamentalists' War Against Vice Targets Alcohol And Prostitution International Business Times It is unclear how widespread prostitution is in Iraq, although the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat reported that war, abandonment and poverty have forced many Iraqi women into the sex trade, placing them at great risk of arrest, imprisonment, abuse and ... Gunmen kill 12 in Baghdad brothel Militants killed 12 in Iraq Gunmen kill 12 in Iraq brothel |
MIKE O'ROURKE: We're Now Seeing The 'Iraq' Of Monetary Policy Business Insider Mike O'Rourke of JonesTrading says that we're now seeing the "Iraq" of monetary policy, meaning the Fed has entered into an extraordinary situation, from which it has no good plan to self-extricate. The Iraq of Monetary Policy. Is there a plausible ... |
UNICEF (press release) | With a rising refugee population, a camp at risk of disease UNICEF (press release) DOMIZ, Iraq, 22 May 2013 – The Domiz refugee camp, which sits about 60 kilometres from the Syrian border amidst an imposing mountain landscape, was originally built to accommodate 22,000 people. Today it is home to around 40,000 Syrian refugees. |