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BAGHDAD: The case of “collateral murder,” the WikiLeaks today released harrowing until-now secret video of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included a Reuter’s photographer and his driver. This is the most shocking footage to come out of Iraq. None of the members [...]
BAGHDAD: Former premier Iyad Allawi on Saturday began talks which could last months to form a government after narrowly edging out incumbent Nuri al-Maliki in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. “There must be a strong government, capable of taking decisions which serve the Iraqi people, and bring peace and stability to Iraq,” Allawi told a press conference [...]
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s president on Sunday called for a recount in this month’s parliamentary elections, which have turned into a tight race between the prime minister and a secular rival amid accusations of fraud. A new count could further extend political wrangling in the contentious race. The demand from President Jalal Talabani came a day after [...]
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s major coalitions were locked in a surprisingly close race on Thursday, in initial results from elections that deepened divisions across a fractured landscape. Candidates were quick to charge fraud, heightening concerns whether Iraq’s fledgling institutions were strong enough to support a peaceful transfer of power. The day was the most tumultuous since Sunday’s [...]
BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 48 others before a parliamentary election. The attacks were the bloodiest in the immediate run-up to a parliamentary election on Sunday that is seen as pivotal for the war-scarred nation [...]
NEW YORK: The number of US soldiers who have died in the US ‘War on Terror’ in Afghanistan and Iraq has reached 5,385 while US casualities in Afghanistan alone hit 1,000, according to an independent website, a grim milestone in the conflict launched more than eight years ago. The icasualties.org website, which tracks military deaths [...]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the Iraq war inquiry on March 5, the inquiry said in a statement Monday. Brown was Britain’s finance minister at the time of the 2003 US-led invasion, and is being called to give his account of the conflict several weeks after then prime minister Tony Blair [...]
RAMADI: A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded 21 on Thursday in Iraq’s increasingly turbulent western Anbar province, a senior Iraqi army official and police told Reuters. A medical source said Ramadi’s main hospital had received 13 bodies and 26 people had been wounded. Separately, in the violent city of Mosul [...]
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi interior minister said on Thursday he had expelled 250 ex-employees of the American security firm Blackwater, whose guards were charged with killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad. “We have sent an order to 250 former Blackwater employees, who today are working with other security companies in Iraq, to leave the country in seven [...]
BAGHDAD: At least 31 people were killed and dozens wounded today by a mortar bomb three kilometres east of Iraq’s holy city of Karbala as over one million Shia pilgrims observed a major religious rite, governor Amalheddin al-Hir told AFP. “A mortar round was launched from fields northeast of the city,” he said. “I accuse [...]
LONDON: Lawyers for scores of Iraqis who claim they were abused by British soldiers called on Thursday for a public inquiry into how the country’s forces have treated detainees during the US-led war. A law firm representing 66 Iraqis said claims that British troops mistreated prisoners during the Iraq conflict were so numerous and similar [...]
BAGHDAD: A female suicide bomber blew herself up, killing 41 Shia pilgrims in northeastern Baghdad on Monday and wounding 106 others, the office of Baghdad security spokesman said. “At 11.45 am (0845 GMT), a woman wearing an explosives-filled belt blew herself up in the middle of a crowd of pilgrims going to Karbala,” said Major [...]
LONDON: An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore. The former British Prime Minister said that before Sept. 11 he thought “Saddam was [...]
LONDON: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes his long-awaited appearance at the public inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war on Friday. These are some of the key questions he is likely to face: Question: When did he commit Britain to military action against Iraq? The inquiry heard the United States was thinking seriously about [...]
BAGHDAD: Three large car bombs rocked well-known Baghdad hotels on Monday, killing at least 36 people and ending a 1-1/2-month lull in coordinated assaults on the Iraqi capital as the country heads into a March election. Police said at least 71 people were wounded in the separate suicide car bombings, which went off within minutes [...]
BAGHDAD: The two biggest secular coalitions were hit hardest by this month’s decision to bar about 500 candidates from parliamentary elections in March, a top election official said Thursday, as efforts to resolve what has become a political crisis intensified. The decision infuriated Sunnis and deepened their fears of being excluded from the political process. [...]
WASHINGTON: Osama bin Laden’s son Omar believes the Al-Qaeda leader has achieved his aim of humbling the United States but warns his death could unleash “very, very nasty” attacks by militants, Rolling Stone magazine said. In a rambling interview conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, Omar bin Laden told the magazine that US [...]
In The Prince, Machiavelli (May 1469 – June 1527) wrote: The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of [...]
MOSUL: A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army base in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, wounding at least 33 people, including 20 members of the security forces, a military official said. The attack occurred around 10.00 am (0700 GMT) in the east of the city, located 350 kilometres north of Baghdad. The [...]
BAGHDAD: Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Saddam Hussein’s enforcer “Chemical Ali” was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabja, state television said. The Al-Iraqiya channel said Majid would be killed by hanging having been found guilty of the notorious attack in 1988 in the [...]
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