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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...
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Lurid artificial flowers and tinsel decorated the police cars and balloons and streamers adorned the concrete security checkpoints of South Baghdad yesterday as...
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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...
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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, Seoul
North Korea has decided to put two U.S. journalists on trial following an investigation into allegations that they entered the country illegally and conducted...
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korea’s state news agency says the country has concluded an investigation of two detained American journalists and formally decided to indict them.
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Sydney
Journalists have a lot to be nervous about lately: layoffs, furloughs, newspaper closures. But reporters at an Australian paper may have received the scariest threat of...
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Seoul
An international media rights group renewed a call for the release of two American reporters held in North Korea for the past month, while the State Department said...
made popular Apr 18 2009
Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
made popular Apr 8 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists near the country’s border with China, South Korean news reports and a South Korean missionary said...
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Seoul
Two American journalists were detained by North Korean soldiers while on a reporting trip earlier in the week near the country’s border with China, South Korean...
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Seoul
A South Korean missionary says North Korean officials are holding two American journalists and their guide after arresting them near the North Korean-Chinese border.
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi television cameraman and a reporter were among those killed in a suicide bombing Tuesday west of Baghdad.
made popular Mar 10 2009
When I first read this on One Man And His Blog I just had to blog it, even though I couldn’t really claim it to be news. However, that was before I read the...
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, United Nations
A media watchdog group is urging President Barack Obama to end the U.S. military’s practice of detaining journalists without charges, and has asked for a full...
made popular Feb 10 2009
AP, United Nations
Journalists around the world are routinely threatened, intimidated or worse, resulting in fear that endangers freedom of the press, a media group said Tuesday.
made popular Feb 10 2009
AP, Brussels
At least 109 reporters and media workers were killed either intentionally or accidentally last year while on assignment, the International Federation of Journalists...
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AP, Brussels
The International Federation of Journalists says at least 109 reporters and media workers were killed last year while on assignment.
made popular Feb 4 2009
AP, New York
Some of the nation’s top financial journalists believe the media dropped the ball as the nation’s economy lurched toward crisis mode. But in a survey, they...
made popular Jan 8 2009
AP, Mogadishu
Two foreign journalists _ a Briton and a Spaniard _ were released Sunday after nearly six weeks in captivity in Somalia, officials said.
made popular Jan 4 2009
AP, Mogadishu
A Somali governor says two foreign journalists _ a Briton and a Spaniard _ have been released after nearly six weeks in captivity.
made popular Jan 4 2009
AP, Erez Crossing
Israel is barring foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip despite a Supreme Court decision this week to allow a limited number to enter the territory.
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Mexico City
Only three of 25 reporters who died violently in the last two years in Mexico were killed because of their work, the country’s special prosecutor for crimes...
made popular Dec 10 2008
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