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Parallel to that, around 30m away, there is a "berm", or earth wall, that is about two or three metres high. The barriers make it impossible to cross by vehicle or even with donkeys. Smugglers are reduced to carrying what they can in sacks on their backs.
Tags: Iraq, Baghdad, Fertile Crescent, Mosul, Ninawa Governorate, Border, Smuggling, Assyria, Chaldeans
Bombs and missiles from Iran were seized after being discovered in Iraq's Basra Province, a Border Guards Forces Command source said. The source, who wished to remain anonymous, said the large quantities of weaponry were seized after being temporarily...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, Iraq, Basra, Basra Governorate, Ninawa campaign, Post-invasion Iraq 2003¬タモpresent, Fertile Crescent, War Conflict, Politics
The execution-style killings of 13 Iraqis over the weekend west of Baghdad has raised fears than a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is taking advantage of the gaps between retreating US forces and Iraqi troops not yet capable of maintaining security on...
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Next week we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Nov. 9, 1989). Representing the collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the unification of the two Germanys, this event was also the beginning of a new era...
Tags: Turkish-Iraqi, Basra, Mosul, Baghdad, Arbil, berlin walls, Berlin Wall, concrete blocks, security walls, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Occupation of Iraq timeline, Fertile Crescent
An Army Journalist's War in Iraq." Published: 11/15/2009 2:24 AM Last Modified: 11/15/2009 2:24 AM Maybe it was the St. Christopher medallion Fred Minnick wore around his neck in Iraq. Or it could have been the prayers his mother offered from Jones.
Tags: Army Journalist, Iraq, Mosul, Minnick, Entertainment Culture, Iraq War
Anthony Landowski stood on the steps of the Whitfield County Courthouse and accepted a Purple Heart medal on Saturday. “It was amazing,” the Ringgold resident said when asked after the ceremony what he was thinking about when he received his honor. “I...
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In the first development, a man working for a weaving factory in Mosul was killed on Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on him near his house in the al-Shurta neighborhood in the northern part of the volatile northern Iraqi city. Security forces...
Tags: National Iraqi News Agency, Mosul, Aswat al-Iraq news agency, explosive device, improvised explosive, police officer, Baghdad, Iraq Fri, western mosul, Iraq, invasion of Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq, Iraqi Police, Ninawa campaign, Ninawa Governorate, Fertile Crescent, War Conflict
The operation began late on Wednesday and is understood to be continuing. It is the first major Iraqi-led offensive in the area since US forces withdrew from urban areas of the country at the end of June. Some detainees are part of al-Qaeda in Iraq, others...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, security force, Iraq, Baghdad
The People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran on Friday accused Iraqi security forces of beating and torturing 36 members of its organization before forcibly transferring them from the Khalis city prison to Baghdad. The organization reported in a statement...
Tags: Iraqi, Mosul, sunni insurgent, security forces, official says, Iraq, Baghdad
For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed out rubble have been cleared and collapsed buildings resurrected, trash...
Tags: Sunni Arab, Mosul, Iraq