Ten years after the war, Iraq is trying to become a regional power
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-03-25 05:47:17 -0700 | odd-news
en years after the U.S. intervention in Iraq, the country seeks to gradually rebuild. But sectarian tensions between Shiites, community power, and Sunnis, who feel sidelined since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, undermine the precarious cohesion of the...
PKK in northern Iraq frees a kidnapped eight Turkish officials
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-03-16 10:43:50 -0700 | odd-news
The outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK acronym in English), was released Wednesday in northern Iraq eight Turkish officials who were kidnapped, reports the Turkish television channel NTV news. Officials released were reunited with their families in the northern region...
Human rights activists: in prisons in Iraq still practice torture
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-03-14 08:43:03 -0700 | odd-news
After nearly ten years after the invasion of the international coalition in Iraq, the country is still actively torture. Such information is contained in the report of the International human rights organization Amnesty International, reports BBC . In addition, according...
Iraq: Second Sunni minister resigns in eight days
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-03-12 10:06:07 -0700 | odd-news
Iraqi Minister of Agriculture, Sunni member of the secular Iraqiya bloc, announced his resignation Friday to protest against the government of Shiite Nouri al-Maliki has accused it of "not meet the expectations of the people." Ezzedine al-Dawla was the second...
Been arrested homemade aircraft.
Posted by: lethibichlan
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-07-27 04:34:02 -0700 | odd-news
A generator mechanic named Wissam Mohammed Kazem has been arrested on charges of illegally manufactured aircraft after taking off their homemade projects in southern Iraq, according to AFP on 12.4. Kazem said he lost about 1.2 million dinars (1,000 dollars)...
He lived 22 years of his life in a hole...
Posted by: amalia pavlidou moerman
Abū Naml :: Iraq | updated 2012-04-03 02:29:43 -0700 | odd-news
In a hole in the ground, spent twentytwo years of his life! With an old garment, some cooking tools, a radio and a Koran, thedesperate Jawad al-Shammari was hidden in this area after being convicted in ...... death in 1979....
Police Investigating Death of Renowned Ballet Dancer in Hit-and-Run Accident
Posted by: Surya Gaire
Hīt :: Iraq | updated 2012-07-26 19:07:32 -0700 | odd-news
Zina Bethune, who was also known as Zina Feeley, was a renowned ballet dancer. She was a dedicated teacher, with most of her time spent teaching disabled children. On Sunday evening, police say that Bethune pulled her 2006 Lincoln Town...
Kurdish Iraqi premier calls on the Vice President will deliver
Posted by: ZohaibAnwer
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-05-27 18:15:59 -0700 | odd-news
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shiite prime minister on Wednesday urged Kurdish officials who will give him the Sunni vice president, who fled to the semiautonomous region to escape an arrest warrant on charges of operating death squads against government officials ....
Iraqi vice president Tarek al-Hashemi denies the charges
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-05-28 18:21:10 -0700 | odd-news
Affected by an arrest warrant for helping his bodyguards to plan and carry out attacks, the Iraqi vice president said he was ready to stand trial if the trial took place in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan. AFP
Tarek Mehanna convicted; the US national had connections with Al Qaeda
Posted by: NadeemIftekhar
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-07-27 17:44:41 -0700 | odd-news
A federal jury in Boston convicted Tarek Mehanna, an Egyptian-American on Tuesday; the 29-year-old US national was alleged of supporting Al Qaeda. The jury found him guilty of the charges i.e. seven counts against him and said Tarek was involved...
After nine years, the U.S. closes its headquarters in Baghdad
Posted by: kingston23
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-06-12 12:10:44 -0700 | odd-news
"This is an independent, free and sovereign". With those words, Secretary of Defense United States, Leon Panetta, officially announced the end of the mission in Iraq after nine years of an invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein from power. After the...
officially ended the war in Iraq
Posted by: saadkhan
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-06-12 12:10:45 -0700 | odd-news
Secretary of Defense United States, Leon Panetta, arrived today in Baghdad to formally terminate the war in Iraq after nearly nine years of fighting in relation to which said the cost in blood and dollars was worth it because created...
U.S. military hands Camp Victory over to Iraq
Posted by: karasiwo
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-07-28 01:53:21 -0700 | odd-news
U.S. forces handed over to Iraq today, the largest so far under control according to the country, the Victory Base Complex near Baghdad, former headquarters of the U.S., where he was also imprisoned former dictator Saddam Hussein. This was announced...
Fidel Castro criticizes possible attack on Iran
Posted by: kingston23
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-04-17 09:19:44 -0700 | odd-news
Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned on Monday that an attack on Iran by Israel, backed by the United States, will trigger a "bloody war", with unpredictable consequences."A bloody war will inevitably begin. In this regard there should be no doubt,"...
Iraq: U.S. soldier killed in northern Iraq
Posted by: lalag
Kirkūk :: Iraq | updated 2012-04-18 14:39:23 -0700 | odd-news
AFP - A U.S. soldier was killed Thursday in operation in northern Iraq, the first death since the U.S. has officially announced the withdrawal of their troops from the country by the end of 2011, said Friday the United States...
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