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President Barack Obama claimed that America will not be retaining any permanent bases in Iraq. This was meant to be a sign to Iraqis and the broader Arab world that the...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Lurid artificial flowers and tinsel decorated the police cars and balloons and streamers adorned the concrete security checkpoints of South Baghdad yesterday as...
made popular Jun 30 2009
Almost 10 days before the scheduled American pullout from Iraq’s urban centres, US forces on Saturday handed their base in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr city to...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Britain allowed southern Iraq to deteriorate after the 2003 invasion because it switched attention to the conflict in Afghanistan, the head of the army said...
made popular Jun 24 2009
On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of the Iraqi cities. America’s great adventure in Iraq is ending. Already there are few US military patrols in...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Iraq’s deadliest bomb this year ripped through a Shia mosque in the north of the country yesterday, killing at least 73 people and injuring around 200.
A suicide...
made popular Jun 22 2009
At night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family’s Phoenix, Ariz., apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Waving a political banner – it’s wonderfully rousing in a revolution, but fatally tedious in a drama. Overt political posturing is the enemy of art. Drama turns...
made popular Jun 12 2009
The young women of Baghdad acknowledge that there are more serious concerns in Iraq these days than hair, clothes and makeup.
But they also say that there might be...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Britain’s final military mission in Iraq is in disarray after a failure to seal an agreement with the Baghdad Government by the end of last month forced two British...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Guns, women and fistfuls of allegedly misappropriated dollars: the trail leading to the arrest of the former Iraqi Trade Minister has the perfect ingredients for a...
made popular Jun 1 2009
It goes like this: Boy meets girl. They exchange glances and text messages, the limit of respectable courting here. Then boy asks girl’s father for her hand. Dad...
made popular May 30 2009
Iraq plans to arrest 1,000 officials for corruption after a scandal which has forced the resignation of the Trade Minister and is threatening the food supply of...
made popular May 29 2009
Around the beginning of May, and after resurgence of violence in Iraq, reports from Iraqi government came to reassure the American withdrawal from urban areas by the...
made popular May 28 2009
Baghdad – In a legacy of the US rush to build up Iraqi security forces, almost one-quarter of the Iraqi Army currently fails to meet its own minimum qualifications...
made popular May 26 2009
An American army member (Elbert W. George III) pleaded guilty for stealing and selling military equipment in Iraq, worth hundreds of thousands of Dollars, to be the...
made popular May 25 2009
Four US contractors for the company formerly known as Blackwater were not authorised to carry weapons when they were involved in a deadly shooting in Afghanistan this...
made popular May 21 2009
An American soldier opened fire on his comrades last Monday at Camp Liberty, which happens to be an American army base in Iraq, to kill 5 army members.
Initial reports...
made popular May 14 2009
In Basra’s Hayaniyah district, a notorious stronghold of Shia militias, a US army sergeant leading a patrol faced two suspects in the street. Amid rising tension...
made popular May 11 2009
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AP, Colombo
Civilians trapped in the war zone in northern Sri Lanka are dying of hunger and are desperately in need of medicine in what the United Nations described Wednesday as an...
made popular Mar 4 2009
AP, United Nations
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, in her first appearance before the U.N. Security Council, signaled Thursday that the new U.S. administration feels a...
made popular Jan 30 2009
AP, Geneva
Sudanese government forces arbitrarily shot into a crowd of Darfur civilians last year, killing dozens, the U.N. human rights office said Friday.
made popular Jan 23 2009
AP, Gaza City
With booms from artillery and airstrikes keeping them awake, the 10 members of Lubna Karam’s family spent the night huddled in the hallway of their Gaza City...
made popular Jan 4 2009
I posted a blog on terror attack on our country in which I expressed our helplessness. I found many comments to my writing but the one thing that came out clear was -...
made popular Sep 19 2008
A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the Lebanese military during Wednesday morning rush hour in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 18...
made popular Aug 14 2008
When American troops stormed this island more than half a century ago, it was a hive of Communist trenches and pillboxes. Now it is a park where children play and...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Soft targets. Civilians. Thats how they are known after any terrorists attacks or civil wars or any violent conflicts. But the bottom line is they were families with...
made popular Jul 27 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military admitted Sunday that American soldiers killed innocent civilians after opening fire on a car last month on the heavily secured Baghdad airport road.
made popular Jul 27 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military has acknowledged that American soldiers killed civilians in a shooting on the heavily secured Baghdad airport road last month.
made popular Jul 27 2008
Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Touhid Hossain Sunday said it is unacceptable that 73 Bangladesh civilians has been killed this year by Indian border guards and he has...
made popular Jul 23 2008
SRI LANKA-Prime Minister said in Parliament yesterday, that 112 security forces personnel, 43 civilians were killed last month while 793 security forces personnel and...
made popular Jul 9 2008
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More than half a million people have been uprooted by conflicts in the first five months of this year _ the vast majority in Africa _ and thousands of civilians have...
made popular May 28 2008
AP, Washington
Civilians deployed to war zones often encounter problems receiving medical treatment and are hesitant to seek help for emotional stress caused by their deployment, a...
made popular Apr 30 2008
AP, Baghdad
A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday _ one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an...
made popular Oct 11 2007
That the American troops are not welcomed in Iraq any more is known to all and it is highly suspicious indeed when civilians are reported killed as an aftermath of...
made popular Oct 6 2007
In the latest report, as a shocking revalation, it has come forward that the Taliban are now increasingly targetting innocent Afghan citizens, killing scores of them in...
made popular Apr 17 2007
An increasingly sophisticated insurgency and political intrigue returns Somalia to chaos and spread instability in a volatile region. Scores of residents fled their...
made popular Mar 23 2007
The renewed focus on Afghanistan after US realized that they are kicking rear in Iraq; foreign troops killed eight civilians when they opened fire on a crowd after a...
made popular Mar 5 2007
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