A coroner criticised the Ministry of Defence today for failing to adequately maintain a helicopter that crashed and caught fire in Iraq , killing two SAS soldiers. Corporal Lee Fitzsimmons, 26, from Peterborough, and Sergeant John Battersby, 31, from Lancashire,...
More than 120 people were killed in Baghdad this morning after car bombs devastated the city the day after Iraq's Presidency Council agreed upon a date for the country's general election. Five blasts, most detonated by suicide bombers, struck government...
A bomb exploded at a school in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing four students and wounding 18 others, an Interior Ministry source said. The blast occurred before midday when a bomb hidden inside Ali Yasir intermediate school for boys in...
Fatima Mohammed Salin 58, who lost six children and her husband to the chemical gas attack during the Kurdish rebellion putdown by Saddam Hussein in the 1987-1988 time frame which killed 200,000 people reunited her with son Ali Pour 21,...
Baghdad :: Iraq
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In an instant she went from a diminutive 43-year-old woman to a warrior on a mission. The random act sent her mentally back to Iraq...And she was no longer driving along Hutchinson's Main Street, but riding in a convoy on...
Liberals and leftists are falling out of love with Barack I did not think he would lose me so soon -- sooner than Bill Clinton did. Like many people, I was deeply invested in the success of our first African-American...
Small crowds of Iraqi movie-goers defied the threat of bomb attacks this week to watch films at a Baghdad outdoor cinema, an event unimaginable for years as violence swirled. Huddled against winds blowing off the Tigris, viewers laughed beneath the...
The U.S. military called it shock and awe, and it began on March 21, 2003 -- 8:09 p.m., to be exact...No one quite remembers when the Americans withdrew from Forward Operating Base Summers. "One morning they left, and they never...
Bush administration carefully assembled a coalition of states under the UN flag and defeated the Iraqi army and restored Kuwait’s ruling family, the House of Sabah. The Bush senior administration saw particular value in ensuring that the international coalition contained...
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