Al Jazeera America | Bombing at Iraq mosque kills dozens Al Jazeera America Two roadside bombs struck a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers north of Baghdad, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 40 in the latest eruption of violence to rock the country, officials said. The bombing hit the village of Umm al-Adham on ... Deadly bomb blasts strike near Iraq mosque Two Roadside Bombs Kill 30 at Iraq Mosque Bomb kills 30, wounds dozens at Sunni mosque in Iraq |
The United States "stood alone in the war in Iraq." PolitiFact "We stood alone in the war in Iraq. We were roundly criticized and rightfully so. And today, we have 35 nations that signed the statement in support of the U.S.'s commitment to strike. ... So President Obama's leadership has rebuilt our credibility ... |
NPR (blog) | Next Door To Syria, Iraq Slowly Boils NPR (blog) With the current focus on Syria it's easy to miss that things are getting worse again in Iraq. Since the spring, the country has been pounded by waves of attacks on civilians and security forces by extremists with links to al-Qaida. Three car bombs in ... After seeing Iraq up close, top US general wary on Syria Iraq Officials Say Blasts at Shiite Mosque Kill 35 Iraq: Bomb Attacks on Shiite Mosque Kill 33 |
The Search for Assad's Chemical Weapons: Lessons from Libya and Iraq TIME First, Iraq: After a Western-led military assault drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 1991, in the first Gulf War, U.N. inspection teams moved in to track down and destroy Saddam's huge stockpile of chemical weapons, in a process that lasted about six ... |
Washington Post | We can stop Syria by using lessons from Iraq Washington Post A little-known truth about the Iraq war has much to tell us — positive and negative — about the prospects of dealing diplomatically with Syria's chemical weapons. The inspections carried out by the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy ... War in Iraq far from a 'disaster' Making the world safe for war |
Washington Post | UN envoy in Iraq urges countries to accept Iranian dissidents after Camp ... Washington Post BAGHDAD — The killing of dozens of members of an Iranian dissident group that the Iraqi government wants out of the country should be “a wake-up call” to the international community, the acting U.N. envoy to Iraq said Friday as he pressed countries to ... Embassy Row: Spectator to slaughter in Iraq Relocation of Remaining Individuals from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya in Iraq Iraq: UN announces transfer of remaining Iranian exiles Camp Ashraf to transit ... |
Christian Science Monitor | As Iraq's economy tries to rebound, bureaucracy brings it down Christian Science Monitor Years of declining violence have improved Iraq's economic prospects, and the market is once again ripe for investment. In 2012, the nation's per capita GDP climbed to $6,300, up from just $1,300 in 2004. Skip to next paragraph ... |
Deserving Iraq War veteran receives house MyFox Phoenix It's a horrible crime. A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa Claus. It's a horrible crime. A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa Claus. A federal appeals court tossed ... |
Wall Street Journal (blog) | Politics Counts: Syria Vote vs. Iraq, Kosovo, Somalia Wall Street Journal (blog) 11, 2001 and the Iraq War vote of 2002. In each case, a majority in the party of the president supported action and the non-presidential party opposed – with the one exception of the vote just after Sept. 11, where there was uniform support. House ... |
Iran Looks to Iraq for Syria Support Al-Monitor 8 visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Iraq caught the media's attention, but that of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, in late August largely passed unremarked. While in Baghdad, Zarif ... |