By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2014 ( 4:40pm) The Islamic State, formally the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has yet to publish an official response to the US’s military strikes against it in Iraq, but sources close to the IS… Read More ›
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Islamic State Seizes Control Over Iraq’s Largest Dam
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Stand Guard in the Northern Iraq city of Mosul 23:51 03/08/2014 MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The Islamic State militants have seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an… Read More ›
Islamic State orders total cover-up for women
In this July 29, 2014 photo, militants parade in Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq. (AP) LATEST STORIES IN MIDDLE-EAST Arab News BEIRUT: The Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern… Read More ›
After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help
NDTV After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help July 28, 2014 18:20 IST Baghdad: State television is working overtime to persuade Iraqis to help Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confront an al Qaeda offshoot that has… Read More ›
Exclusive: Iraq still using bogus bomb detectors – and thousands pay the price
More than 4,500 people have been killed since the conviction of UK businessman, James McCormick, in April Kim Sengupta Wednesday, 2 October 2013 Bogus bomb detectors are still being used in Iraq five months after a British businessman who supplied… Read More ›
US diplomatic security accused in sex, drugs cover-up
11 Jun 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) A US watchdog has launched an inquiry into claims that diplomatic security officials tried to cover up alleged sex-and-drugs charges against agents and diplomats, an official said. State Department diplomatic security agents are responsible for… Read More ›
Scandal flares up over State Department manipulated investigations/ “called off cases of illegal behavior of diplomatic staff.”
Photo: EPA The State department is trying to cover up a scandal over allegedly altered or dismissed investigations into illegal behavior of multiple government officials worldwide. A memo obtained by CBS from the State Department inspector general showed incidents when… Read More ›
Al-Jazeera banned by Iraq over ‘sectarian bias’ in coverage
Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed Associated Press in Baghdad guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 April 2013 09.56 EDT The newsroom at the headquarters of al-Jazeera, in Qatar. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images The Iraqi… Read More ›
Russian arms supplies to Iraq to begin by summer – Iraqi Foreign Minister
Yelena Suponina Mar 4, 2013 16:18 Moscow Time © Photo: Yelena Suponina In an exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari talks about the upcoming meeting of the bilateral commission on cooperation as well as the… Read More ›
Iraqi Kurds send more troops into standoff with Iraq army
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:18 GMT Reuters ARBIL, Iraq, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdish region has sent reinforcements to a disputed area where its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi army, a senior Kurdish military official… Read More ›
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