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Nearly 1,000 people have been detained in a sweep to break al-Qaida in Iraq’s sway in Iraq’s third largest city, Mosul, but many of the fighters have fled to nearby areas, where troops are hunting for them, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Last month, Marine Staff Sgt. Travis N. “T-Bo” Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met the president.
A Democratic congressman on Saturday urged Republicans to “step up to the plate” to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Baghdad for a surprise visit, an Iraqi government official said Saturday.
An Iraqi government official says US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Baghdad for a surprise visit.
A former Church of England leader has appealed for militants to release five British civilians kidnapped in Iraq a year ago.
The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire _ more than a year after it said there was no immediate indication of hostile action.
As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 4,079 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Neither can constructing a wall divide the citizens of a country nor can it bring peace to the region. The Americans however has oversimplified the idiom that out of sight is out of mind and have thought that the only solution that lay in bringing...
Post Saddam Hussain’s hanging, things haven’t changed much and a new phenomenon is grappling Iraq, with a new trend emerging with the rise in the number of widows. One such widow is Suad Rzuki Aboud who lost her husband, three sons and a...
Iraq has been in the news ever since 2001. With the country being in the state of a perpetual war, women and children suffer the most, both, in social and economic aspects. Amidst such a climate, the atmosphere in Iraq is not very friendly,...
That the situation in Iraq is changing from bad to worse after the US invasion has been proved once again in a recent United Nations report that said that the militia in Iraq are recruiting children for suicidal attacks. The Al-Qaeda is training...
When the U.S.A led NATO forces invaded Iraq, they promised the Iraqis better life and more liberty than what they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein’s regime. However, situation in Iraq became worse jeopardizing the secularism of the country. Basra, in...
The Americans are now builing a wall around southern parts of Sadr city, the Shia dominated area of Baghdad. The idea is to prevent more Shia fighters of the Mahdi army from entering the area.
After the Iraqi governemnt’s recent offensive against...
President Bush seems to manage to find some ratioanle for his foreign policy actions. In 2003 he told us that the bad Saddam Hussain had nuclear weapons, chemical weapoms and what not. The world half believed it then. And we have the US army sitting in...
After years of fighting the Taliban regime and trying to restore order in Afghanistan, American and British troops are largely unsuccessful. It is not the case only in Afghanistan, but is also true of the other places which America had invaded, namely...
Iran, Iraq and America have long been involved in a series of battles since the Gulf war and I suffice it to say that hegemonic American attitude and opportunism made the atmosphere hostile, along with the already existing animosity between these...
More than 40 people died and 255 were injured as fresh violence broke out in Basra, the southern city of Iraq and the third largest city with a population of approximately 2.6 million, where Shia militants continue to battle the security forces. Nouri...
In this image released by the Iraqi government, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meet in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 17, 2008. Pelosi has criticized the Bush administration’s strategy of taking a “pause” before...
