Report: Many Iraqis Still Holding Petty Grudge About U.S. Invasion
Source: The Onion
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-12 12:05:59 -0700 | travel-news
Invasion According to experts, a majority of Iraqis persist in acting all woe-is-me about some stupid war that happened ages ago. Monday reveals that many Iraqi citizens apparently still hold some sort of petty grudge over the U.S.-led invasion of...
Layne's tunnel vision
Source: The Hutchinson News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 21:11:34 -0700 | travel-news
I am sorry this is so late, but I had to wait out my allotted number of days before I could write another letter. It is his opinion that the only legacy President Bush has is the Iraq war. Layne...
Sectarianism: Why must Arabs worry
Source: Arab News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 14:49:46 -0700 | travel-news
Ramzy Baroud Wednesday 12 June 2013 Last Update 12 June 2013 12:00 am My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast about the contributions...
1,000 Iraqi Kurdish...
Source: Arab News
Kirkūk :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-12 01:35:20 -0700 | travel-news
More than 1,000 Kurdish career soldiers in the Iraqi army have deserted and want to be integrated into the Kurdish former rebel peshmerga militia. The move comes after the Kurdish troops disobeyed orders to take part in an operation ordered...
Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield
Source: Associated Press
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 16:36:01 -0700 | travel-news
Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out. Iraqi border posts along the Syrian...
How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars
Source: Truthdig
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 10:26:04 -0700 | travel-news
Jun 11, 2013 The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks' source inside the U.S. Manning to WikiLeaks were found on bin Laden's laptop. That will, in turn, be offered as proof not that bin Laden had internet access like two billion other earthlings,...
Bombs strike security forces in Iraq, kill 6
Source: Boston.com
Mosul :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 11:00:15 -0700 | travel-news
Officials say roadside bombings have targeted army and police convoys in northern Iraq, killing six troops. Police officials say a bomb struck a military convoy on Tuesday morning in the volatile city of Mosul, killing three soldiers and two officers....
Blue Diamond gets new commander
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Fallujah :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-10 18:37:49 -0700 | travel-news
Ronald Bailey relinquished command Monday at Camp Pendleton of the 1st Marine Division, handing The Blue Diamond off to another experienced combat veteran, Maj...Bailey was selected for a third star and a new assignment as the deputy commandant for Plans,...
New wave of Iraq violence kills 70
Source: Inquirer.net
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-11 01:12:02 -0700 | travel-news
Sunni areas of Iraq, killed at least 70 people on Monday, shattering hopes that tensions had been eased by a recent series of symbolic political gestures. The attacks, which left more than 230 people wounded, are the latest in a...
Amid rising ethnic tension, Kurdish brigade soldiers stop taking orders from Baghdad
Source: Washington Post
Kirkūk :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-10 12:19:59 -0700 | travel-news
We have nothing to do with the Iraqi Army anymore, said brigade spokesman Rekawt Mohammed...The defection mirrors the widening divisions in Iraqi society , which have become increasingly deadly. The U.N. reported that 1,045 people were killed here in May,...
Supreme Court ends torture suit against Rumsfeld
Source: Fox
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-10 20:37:41 -0700 | travel-news
Published June 10, 2013 Associated Press The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from two American whistleblowers who claim U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq and who want to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The justices' action Monday leaves...
High court ends torture suit against Rumsfeld
Source: The Boston Globe
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-10 06:47:09 -0700 | travel-news
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from two American whistleblowers who claim U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq and who want to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The justices' action Monday leaves in place a federal appeals court...
Many dead in Iraq market bombings
Source: BBC
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-10 11:02:33 -0700 | travel-news
At least 12 people have been killed in a series of bombings in a market north of the capital, Baghdad, officials say. Two car bombs went off and a suicide bomber blew themselves up in the predominantly Shia town of...
Syria rebels fire on Iraq border posts, one killed
Source: The Daily Star
Fallujah :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-09 07:26:11 -0700 | travel-news
A Free Syrian Army fighter rests in Aleppo's Karm al-Jabal district, June 8, 2013. Iraq: Syrian rebels on Sunday opened fire on two Iraqi border posts along the southern edge of the two countries' frontier, killing one guard and wounding...
Iraq PM visits Kurdistan in attempt to ease disputes
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-06-09 16:39:05 -0700 | travel-news
visits Kurdistan in attempt to ease disputes Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in an attempt to resolve a long-running dispute over oil and land that...
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