Rudaw | UPDATE 2-Iraq says Kurds agree to export oil via central marketing body Reuters The region has previously insisted it will export crude on its own terms, bypassing Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO), but Shahristani said the Kurds had finally relented. "After hours of meetings, we have agreed that our brothers in the ... To Be or Not to Be in Iraq, That is the Question Kurds Bypass Iraq Government, Build Oil Pipeline To Turkey |
Al-Arabiya | Former US soldier jailed for Iraq atrocities dies Al-Arabiya Defense lawyers argued that the stress of the combat environment after the 2003-U.S. led invasion of Iraq had prompted Green to commit his crimes. He had been discharged from the U.S. army for what was described as a personality disorder before the ... US soldier convicted of Iraq rape, murders found hanged in prison Former soldier at center of murder of Iraqi family dies after suicide attempt Iraq War criminal's lawyer: 'Last tragic chapter of a tragic case' |
CNN | Iraq: at least 49 killed in several Baghdad bomb blasts euronews No group immediately claimed responsibility but Shi'ites are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents who have been gaining ground in Iraq over the past year and overran several towns in recent weeks. In separate incidents in the northern city of ... Wave of car bombs hit central Iraq Blasts kill at least 16 in Iraq; 90 wounded Bomb attacks kill at least 24 in Iraq capital |
Mother Jones | Are We Bound to Forget How the Iraq War Really Happened? Mother Jones So you choose the Iraq War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Experience and take a stroll through the virtual interactive timeline. Look to your right, and you see happy Iraqis pulling down Saddam's statueand showering US Marines with flowers and candy. Misremembering America's Wars, From Vietnam to Iraq |
Escaped Inmates From Iraq Fuel Syrian Insurgency New York Times BAGHDAD — A series of daring but little noticed breakouts from Iraqi prisons has freed hundreds of hardened militants who are now among the leaders and foot soldiers of the radical Sunni groups operating in neighboring Syria and, increasingly, in Iraq ... |
Iraq is Run by Wolves CounterPunch Here we are seeing our wounded and oppressed Iraq, under a black cloud that has covered its land and its sky: blood is flowing, wars are everywhere, people killing each other, some under the name of the 'law' and some under the name of 'religion'. |
Despite Iraq's troubles, archaeologists are back Reuters Very little work has been done here since, but British archaeologists are now back in the area despite the insecurity in Iraq that had kept them - and all but the most adventurous tourists - away from one of the world's oldest cities. Brushing the ... |
NCR-Iran.org (press release) | Iraq: Stop the Massacre of Anbar Civilians Center for Research on Globalization Maliki's use of the army against the civilian population of Anbar constitutes the defeat of the policies Iraq has been following since 2003 and cements the divorce between the people of Iraq and the current sectarian government. This new round of ... Iraq to Allocate $1 Billion for Anbar Reconstruction HIGH-LEVEL BRUSSELS CONFERENCE EXPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE ... Violence increases in Iraq |
Al-Arabiya | Exclusive: Top ISIS leaders revealed Al-Arabiya The six individuals who have been at the helm of the terror group are from Iraq, Deputy Minister of Iraq's Interior Ministry Adnan al-Asadi told Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview to be aired on Friday. At least three of them served in Saddam Hussein ... |
After Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Brain-Injured Veterans Search for Solace Wall Street Journal His head, gouged by shrapnel from an insurgent bomb in Iraq, was grotesquely swollen. His face was distorted and his right eye was near blind. Mr. Bunce spoke his first thought: "This is not my son." The Bunce family and their doctors have spent the ... |