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 ›
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Russia sends fighter jets to help Iraq
Sunday, 29 June 2014 The first ten Russian Sukhoi fighter jets arrived in Iraq on Saturday, the country’s Defense Ministry said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping the jets will make a key difference in the fight against ISIS…. 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 ›
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 ›
Iraq sticks to Russia arms contracts: dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia
Nov 10, 2012 21:28 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/The U.S. Army/cc-by Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi has dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia, signed in Moscow in October during a… Read More ›