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Iceland and Sweden will take in nearly 200 Palestinian refugees stranded in makeshift desert camps on Iraq’s border with Syria.
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As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...
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A suicide car bomber blasted an outdoor market Saturday in a northern Iraqi city, killing six people and wounding 54, police and hospital authorities said.
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An official in ex-deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi’s office says six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on the former Pentagon favorite’s...
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The White House on Friday disputed an assertion in a new book by Bob Woodward that President Bush was slow to react to escalating attacks in Iraq, forcefully arguing...
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Other national politicians with children who’ve served with U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan include:
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An Iraqi police official says a car bomb apparently targeting the convoy of former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi has exploded in western Baghdad, killing two...
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Iraq is about to become an unusual common ground for the presidential candidates, despite its divisiveness as a campaign issue. Sons of both vice presidential nominees...
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The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq’s prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States...
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The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq’s prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States...
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The White House says President Bush will announce his decision on future troops levels in Iraq next week.
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The phenomenon of female suicide bombers is a gender thing, and the burqa plays an important role in it. The Islamic traditional female garb that cloaks the entire body...
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Iraq’s envoy to Jordan says Baghdad will send planes and buses to bring home 520 Iraqis who fled to Jordan after the US-led invasion in 2003.
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President Bush “rarely was the voice of realism” on the Iraq war and “too often failed to lead,” according to a new book by Bob Woodward...
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As of Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at least 4,154 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence...
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The Associated Press has learned that President Bush’s top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year....
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a
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Protesters calling for an end to the Iraq war urged others to join their march Thursday night outside the Republican National Convention as John McCain accepts his...
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Britain’s Information Commissioner ruled Thursday that the government must publish memos and e-mails related to a 2002 intelligence dossier on Iraq’s...
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Protesters calling for an end to the Iraq war plan to march outside the Republican National Convention Thursday night as John McCain accepts his party’s...
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The United States admitted fewer Iraqi refugees in August than in the previous record-setting month, but remains on pace to meet the Bush administration’s goal of...
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees have arrived in the United States as part of a nationwide resettlement program to bring 12,000 Iraqis to the United States by the end of...
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Striking new research in the Southern California mountains suggests recent warming is behind a massive die-off and rapid migration to higher ground by nine different...
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The United States allowed in more than 2,300 Iraqi refugees last month, setting a record and putting the Bush administration on pace to surpass its goal of accepting...
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According to the Israeli central bureau of statistics there are about 100 thousand illegal foreign workers in Israel. Most of them are from Romania, Thailand, China and...
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The number of Iraqi refugees admitted into the United States continued to rise in June, crossing the halfway point on the Bush administration’s goal of 12,000 by...
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More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees living in camps in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what the United Nations said Wednesday had become the world’s...
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Kenya’s Internally displaced persons have once again started trickling back to their camps a few days after they went back to their homes due to fresh tension that...
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The Bush administration is nearing the halfway point in its goal to admit 12,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of September, the State Department said Saturday amid a...
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Women and children have been hit especially hard in Iraq’s refugee crisis, often forced to beg and in some cases turn to prostitution to provide for their...
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A senior American diplomat will make a rare visit to Syria next week in a bid to speed up the processing of Iraqi refugees for admission to the United States, the State...
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The State Department says a senior American diplomat will make a rare visit to Syria next week to help speed up the processing of Iraqi refugees who want to come to the...
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A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality, a survey of the...
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Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight...
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Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, driving up the global number of refugees after several years of decline,...
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The Bush administration said Tuesday it could admit almost 8,000 more Iraqi refugees to the U.S., putting it within reach its goal of admitting 12,000 by the end of...
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The Bush administration said Tuesday it could admit almost 8,000 more Iraqi refugees to the U.S., putting it within reach its goal of admitting 12,000 by the end of...
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The number of Iraqi refugees allowed into the United States surpassed 1,000 in May, setting a new monthly record for admissions, though still off the pace needed to...
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The following blog post will be mostly photos as I feel the pictures speak for themselves. Two events are covered in particular, one is that of Zimbabweans taking...
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Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador, front, reads a map during an over flight in San Lorenzo, north of Ecuador, on the border with Colombia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. Ecuador will run in September a program named “Plan Ecuador”, to...
