News Source: The Guardian
| 4 months ago
Overshadowed by the war in Afghanistan , a new cauldron of potential violence is threatening to destabilise Barack Obama's foreign policy. Tension between Iraq's Kurds and Arabs has mounted to the point where normally non-alarmist thinktanks like the...
News Source: Alternet
| 4 months ago
The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set...
News Source: The Australian Jewish News
| 4 months ago
As many as 1350 Iraqi Palestinians will be resettled in the United States. The State Department confirmed Tuesday that the group of refugees, the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees in the United States, will start arriving later this...
News Source: Mother Jones
| 4 months ago
Nailing Down the Energy Heartland of the Planet Iraq's great hydrocarbon promise has been continually thwarted by war, foreign intervention, sanctions, internal disorder, corruption, and plain old ineptitude. Saddam Hussein did succeed for a time in...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 4 months ago
Iraqi Kurds going to the polls this month are losing interest in age-old battles with Baghdad over land or oil, and starting to care more about the corruption that plagues their largely autonomous region. Kurds vote on July 25 in parliamentary and...