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Iraq’s Shiites have simultaneously been America’s friend in foe in the post-Saddam era. The United States invaded and occupied (or “liberated” in ultra-nationalist American parlance) Iraq on a sectarian formula: to build a relationship with Shiites...
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“After the first successful thrust every revolution differentiates into political and class currents. This is the moment of greatest danger. The moment when the...
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BAGHDAD — A series of car bombs shook the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing 10 people and wounding at least 90 in a large-scale assault that...
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Two US soldiers have been killed in central Iraq in the first deadly attack of 2011 on American forces in the country, the military said on Monday. “Two US...
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The lousy neo-conservative Washington Post, which revers the state and idolizes war, recently published a piece warning about...ice cream. Yes, ice cream. But not just...
made popular Dec 30 2010
BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi parliament Tuesday approved Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his new government, more than nine months after an...
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Whenever the United States launches a war against a third-world nation we constantly hear the refrain “They do not value life as we do.” This is meant to...
made popular Dec 22 2010
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister set forward the skeleton of his new government on Monday night, proposing ministers to fill a majority of cabinet seats and bringing...
made popular Dec 21 2010
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is due to unveil his cabinet shortly, more than nine months after inconclusive parliamentary elections.
made popular Dec 20 2010
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Iraqi authorities arrested 80 people suspected of plotting attacks in the southern city of Karbala, where authorities said as many as 2...
made popular Dec 17 2010
The Vile and Illiterate Saudi King.
The corrupt oil monarchy of Saudi Arabia is truly a house built on sand. The nation produces nearly next to nothing after its oil...
made popular Dec 6 2010
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s president said Wednesday that he would not sign an execution order for the foreign minister in Saddam Hussein’s government, who was...
made popular Nov 18 2010
The “peace process” in the Middle East lurches along from crisis to crisis. Since President Obama took office, George Mitchell has served as his special envoy to...
made popular Nov 12 2010
BAGHDAD — Only three hours into a parliamentary session called on Thursday to begin the process of approving an agreement on a new unity government, members of an...
made popular Nov 12 2010
The Iraqi parliament is due to meet after a reported breakthrough in negotiations to form a new government
made popular Nov 11 2010
By JOHN LELAND and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: November 10, 2010
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s leaders reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday night to create a unity...
made popular Nov 11 2010
A series of bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christians have killed at least three people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security sources say.
made popular Nov 10 2010
President Barack Obama has announced $10 billion trade deals with India and claimed that the deal will create 53,670 U.S. jobs. He brought some of the changes in export...
made popular Nov 10 2010
The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003.
But, say the store’s two owners,...
made popular Sep 23 2010
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A pair of car bombs have torn through two different Baghdad neighbourhoods, killing at least 31 people and breaking what has been a period of relative calm since the...
made popular Sep 21 2010
More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Bahrain stripped a powerful Shiite cleric with close ties to Iraq of his citizenship as authorities Monday widened a crackdown against alleged dissidents ahead of next...
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A series of bomb attacks, including a twin massive car bombings, in Baghdad on Sunday killed 32 people and wounded 119 others.
Two deadly car bomb explosions, almost...
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a joint raid in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah early Wednesday, killing seven people, Iraqi officials said.
The incident...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers held in Iran as spies for over a year, has been freed from prison.
Iran’s English language state television Press TV...
made popular Sep 14 2010
When they return from Iraq or Afghanistan, America’s military veterans must confront a new enemy - the dismal job market.
made popular Sep 14 2010
The controversial settlement ends years of legal battles and could help Iraq emerge from United Nations sanctions put in place two decades ago – a step Iraqi leaders...
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Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric in Iraq and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman...
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Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday.
In the first of the two attacks, three...
made popular Sep 9 2010
The killing of an Iraqi journalist, shot dead by unidentified gunmen Tuesday, highlights the dangers facing reporters in a conflict that has claimed more media...
made popular Sep 8 2010
I like this story. It brings a hope:
“Kurds in northern Iraq are reaching out to a group of people with whom they believe share a historic ethnic connection, and...
made popular Sep 8 2010
Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an...
made popular Sep 6 2010
The Associated Press, which often sets the standards for media terminology, ruled against the Obama administration.
It did not take much time for Obama to adopt the...
made popular Sep 4 2010
It was a long time of seven years before U.S. finally ended its mission in Iraq. What exactly was the mission, that’s still unclear though… It all started with a...
made popular Sep 2 2010
It’s a political memoir with celebrity trappings - secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy.
Tony Blair’s “A...
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Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Muwafak Ali’s downtown Baghdad music store is still pockmarked by the American rocket that whizzed through the door on one of the first days of the U.S.-led...
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Even as Washington is recasting the narrative of the Iraq war in terms of the troop withdrawal and campaign promises, Iraqi citizens say they’re still caught in...
made popular Aug 31 2010
The shell of a prison that will never be used rises from the desert on the edge of this dusty town north of Baghdad, a hulking monument to the wasted promise of...
made popular Aug 30 2010
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state...
made popular Aug 28 2010
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Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi speaks to reporters in Amman, Monday, May 4, 2009. Hashemi said that the Arab involvement in his country was necessary following a U.S. troop pullout. “Arab countries must read the new strategic scene in Iraq,...
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