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The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere goats, began with an entreaty from President George W. Bush to the billionaire...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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For the usually peaceful Norfolk countryside it was a startling sight: a suicide bomber appeared to blow himself up, seriously wounding a passer-by and scaring several...
made popular Jun 11 2009
“You’ve all heard of strategic communications,” said the high-ranking U.S. official, holding an off-the-record briefing for journalists in Kabul last...
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
In a bid to calm down critical voices from the opposing forces and healing the wounds of survivors of a US air strike, Hamid Karzai the President of Afghanistan, made a...
made popular May 20 2009
The Bush administration is trying to impose on the Iraqi parliament a Iraq-U.S. Security Agreement that would facilitate the continuation of American troops in the...
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Lahore(Pakistan)4 August 2008.
Dr.Aafia Siddique earned her P.hd from the prestigeous MIT (USA).Failing to get a job in Pakistan she returned to the USA in Feburary...
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U.S. troops on Monday reinforced a remote military outpost after well-armed militants got inside and killed nine American soldiers in the deadliest assault on U.S....
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War ethics are sinking to a new low in Afghanistan. But then expecting anything better from a mindlessly fanatic outfit like the Taliban is foolish. An Afghan boy was...
made popular Jun 27 2007
The violence torn Iraq continues to make headlines for its daily bloodshed. In a major offensive, the U.S. military deployed 10,000 soldiers under the cover of attack...
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Seven US soldiers have been reported killed during regular patrolling in the capital when insurgents attacked, the US military says.
The troops killed in Baghdad were...
made popular May 21 2007
Two powerful car bombs killed at least 63 people and injured more than 120 people in a Shia district of Baghdad. The blasts occurred in a market in the city’s New...
made popular Feb 18 2007
Iraq study group report: Key points
1. Bush’s Iraq policy was a disaster
2. There is not military solution to Iraq
3. All factions of Iraq should be involved in...
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Pentagon has taken a historic decision regarding the withdrawal of troops. US general in Iraq cleared that the situation in Iraq is currently unstable and it would take...
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Although US forces claim victory over the cruel ruler Saddam, but still the streets of Iraq remain the battlefield of the forces. Few people even today think that a...
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In a recent revelation, CNN has reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had the phone numbers of top-notch Iraqi officials stored in his cell phone. However, the names of...
made popular Jul 4 2006
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