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It was 25 years ago this week that a minor insurgency in Sri Lanka began to turn into a full-scale civil war.
Sri Lankan soldier
The army is advancing in the north
An attack by Tamil Tiger rebels in the north sparked rioting across the country...
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The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have...
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Charges have been dismissed against a Camp Pendleton Marine sniper accused in the shooting deaths of two Syrians in Iraq.
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...
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Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it’s not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the...
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...
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The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is “not even much of a...
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The International Olympic Committee has upheld a ban on Iraqi teams at the Beijing Games, saying Thursday the government missed the deadline to address accusations of...
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The International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at Beijing because of Iraqi government interference.
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The International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at the Beijing Games because of interference by its government in sport.
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Iraqis, having lived through years of sectarian warfare, are unlikely to revert to mass violence as they sort out their future, the top U.S. diplomat to Baghdad told...
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U.S. ambasssador to Iraq Ryan Crocker tells The Associated Press that significant progress has been made in the war there and it will take an enormous shift in...
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The U.S. Embassy on Thursday launched an expanded immigration program that provides 5,000 more visas each year for Iraqis who have put themselves at risk by working for...
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Turkish warplanes bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday.
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Turkish warplanes bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday.
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The Christians were once the dominant community in Lebanon but now they play second fiddle to Muslims. As if that itself doesn’t threaten them in the fight for survival...
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