Keywords: by Margaret Griffis, February 03, 2012 Light violence left five dead and one wounded across Iraq, but there may be more positive signs that current political tensions could soon end: The Iraqiya party and the National Alliance have been discussing ways...
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By Hassan Hafidh AMMAN (Dow Jones)--Norway's Statoil (STL.OS) is intending to sell its stake in Iraq's supergiant West Qurna phase-2 oil field in southern Iraq to Russia's Lukoil (LUKOY), a senior Iraqi oil ministry official told Dow Jones Newswires...
Fresh from the last days of the Iraq War, Col. Timothy Counihan is still regaining his bearings in civilian life. But as a surgeon, he's finding plenty of connections between what he learned at the war zone operating table and the needs of trauma patients rolling into the Pittsfield emergency room.
In its latest show of gratitude for being liberated from Saddam Hussein’s tyrannies and set up for representative self-government, the new government of Iraq is objecting to the use of unarmed drones by the U.S. State Department to protect its people.
Anonymous, in a statement which appeared on the website of the law firm of Puckett and Faraj, also claimed to have published online three gigabytes of private email messages of attorneys Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj. | Wuterich, 31, admitted one count of negligent dereliction of duty but manslaughter charges were dropped as part of a plea deal.
DIWANIYA / Aswat al-Iraq: At least 23 people have been klled and 23 others injured in a traffic accident in southern Iraq's Diwaniya city on Friday, the city's Hospital Director, Dr. Ahmed Khuzae told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Saturday.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Official Spokesman for the Iraqi Government, Ali al-Sabbagh, has said on Saturday that the economic sanctions, imposed by the United States on Iran, had created economic difficulties on Iraq, due to the economic and trade...
The father called because he's afraid, petrified really. His son, he says, could be the next Marine, lying dead on the street. | The next Jason Prostrollo. | "My son has admitted that dying would be easier than suffering the pain in his head," Roland DeCesare told me, "and yes, he has thought about suicide by cop." | Prostrollo was the 25-year-old former Marine killed by Scottsdale police early last Saturday morning.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The productivity of Iraqi Oil Refineries is expected to increase in the beginning of the current year, with oil product that would cover a large part of the local needs for those products," the Oil Ministry's Official Spokesman...
Turkey's General Staff said on Friday that Turkish jets hit terrorist targets in the north of Iraq. | Goy Gol, Gance is one of the major Tourist Attractions in Gance that is widely frequented by visitors from all over the world.
It's official: Zaha Hadid is going to design the new Central Bank of Iraq's Headquarters; Tafline argues that it should be green. | Given the enormous amount of overall reconstruction that needs to be achieved in order to restore any kind of sanity to Iraq, all new developments ought to be as lean and green as possible.
Karen Willenbrecht: Some have questioned if parades are appropriate given the ongoing war on terrorism. Last month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his city wouldn't be holding any official parades for Iraq War vets because military leaders object. | Group argues that even though troops are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to an economy in turmoil, military retirement programs must be preserved. | Monthly figures reveal 9.
Keywords: by Edythe Jensen - Feb. 4, 2012 07:24 AM A 27-year-old Army veteran who was injured in Iraq has filed paperwork to run for Chandler City Council in the Aug. 28 primary election. If he submits the required 1000 signatures on nomination petitions before...
Public officials in Nashville aren’t sure what to make of reports that a parade similar to one held in St. Louis to welcome home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans last weekend is in the works for Music City. | While there is no set timeline regarding when Public Works must be notified for a permit, events as large as the one in St. Louis could take anywhere from two weeks to a month to coordinate, Hopkins-Glascock said.
"Is there a settlement for the current crisis in the country and where are things are heading and is there a solution to get Iraq out the UN Charter 7, imposing economic sanctions against Iraq, which remains suffering from minor sovereignty?," Ahmed...
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Manila: The Philippines announced that it has imposed a total ban on sending Filipino workers to Iraq in anticipation of a surge in violence following the withdrawal of US forces in the country. | "The Poea Governing Board has issued the resolution after the Office of the President has approved the recommendation of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raising the Alert Level in Iraq from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 3,"
Amid the recent rise in violence in Iraq, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) imposed a total ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers there. But the POEA Governing Board, in Resolution No. 3, imposes "total ban on OFWs...
Baghdad: Halima Dakhil lost her husband in the sectarian slaughter that engulfed Iraq after the US invasion in 2003 and now spends her days tearful and scared, knowing her $250 (Dh917.50) monthly wage won't pay the rent and feed five children.
Keywords: by John Glaser, February 02, 2012 The US has heaped harsh economic sanctions on Iran and has managed to convince the European Union to go along with a complete ban on Iranian imported oil, measures that are already having detrimental effects...
Keywords: by Margaret Griffis, February 02, 2012 Despite internation condemnation for recent exectutions, Iraq has announced that at least three more detainees will suffer the death penalty. Meanwhile, at least 10 Iraqis were killed and 12 more wounded in new...
Keywords: by Jason Ditz, February 02, 2012 Hashemi's own take on the matter was consistent with what his party has indicated in the past, saying it was an effort to disenfranchise Iraq's Sunni Arab minority and citing Maliki's recent efforts to move against...
Paul Rieckhoff: The ticker-tape parade is a slice of Americana as old as the Statue of Liberty. It's an honor reserved for a select few (sort of), from astronauts returning from space to military heroes to beloved politicians like Teddy Roosevelt. It's also happened for baseball player Sammy Sosa, and even the President of Indonesia. This weekend, either the New England Patriots or New York Giants will earn the title "champion"
The Iraqiya bloc sent a "positive signal" by ending its parliament boycott, and its eventual return to the cabinet depends on how Iraq's premier responds, the country's fugitive vice president told Agence France Presse. | Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni, is accused of financing a death squad to target policemen, judges and officials and has been hiding out in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region since December.
Keywords: billed as the first major celebration since the end of the Iraq War -- was organized by veterans groups, city officials and volunteers in about one month and paid for through small donations totaling $40,000. | Hundreds of veterans from the wars fought since the September 11, 2001, attacks marched in Saturday's mile-long parade along St. Louis streets be-decked with American flags.
In a string of attacks today, members of the digital activist group Anonymous apparently hacked into the Web site of defense lawyers for a U.S. Marine accused of leading a civilian massacre in Iraq, and have reportedly acquired e-mails exchanged by attorneys in the case. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on InSecurity Complex.
AKnews reported that continuing its bid to make oil transparent, the Oil and Energy Committee steps up its demands that the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs liberalize press access to oil officials. Last week the Committee accused the Oil...
Chilean company Scramble has filed for bankruptcy, along with its comerically-linked fruit businesses Ben David, Agro Fr... | Australian Table Grape Association CEO Jeff Scott has warned local consumers about the high chemical content of Chilean... | The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has criticized New Zealand's product market regulation...
The announcement came after a spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi, one of Iraq's top clerics, said the highest Shiite authority wanted the project postponed because of "financial and administrative corruption." | The Najaf celebrations had been part of efforts by Iraq to put the country back on the cultural map, after the US-led invasion of 2003 led to years of brutal sectarian war.
By Chick Jacobs In the end, the troubled kids win that big football game, the rescue crew saves orphans from a burning bus, everyone emerges better for their trials. Jaye White knows that Thursday night's offering at Haymount United Methodist Church...
Army National Guard Sgt. Jared M. Thomas has returned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., after being deployed to Iraq serving in support of Operation New Dawn.
A Brisbane man who embezzled $30,000 from a soldier while he was deployed in Iraq was sentenced Thursday to four months in jail, a prosecutor said. | Kenneth McCall, 66, was taken into custody immediately after sentencing in San Mateo County Superior Court, said chief deputy district attorney Karen Guidotti. However he can ask to serve his sentence at home under electronic monitoring.
The decision by Iraq's largely Sunni Iraqiya bloc to end its boycott of the Iraqi parliament is precisely what the country needs to move forward, one Arabic language editorial says. Other topics in today's roundup of Arabic opinion: Russia and Syria at the UN, and Libya's legacy.
In a few months, the house at the verge of a 77th Street cul-de-sac in Bacon Crest will be a house similar to any other in the neighborhood; come summer, a family of three will live under its roof, within its walls. But the eventual owner, retired Army medic Louis Flores, explained Wednesday that for a veteran coming back from combat, it€™s both a house and a very special means of reconnection with the civilian world most of his military peers...
Norway's Statoil wants to sell its stake in a giant 12.9 billion barrel oilfield in southern Iraq to Russia's Lukoil, and the Iraqi oil ministry has no objection "in principle", an Iraqi oil official said on Thursday. | Statoil holds 18.75 percent of the West Qurna Phase-2 field, with Lukoil at 56.25 percent and Iraq's North Oil Company 25 percent.
The Arab League's Assistant Secretary-General, Ahmed Bin-Hilli, has highly assessed the current circumstances in Iraq and its preparations for the holding of the Arab Summit in Baghdad.
By Hassan Hafidh (Adds name of oil ministry official paragraph four, Statoil stake in West Qurna Phase-2 paragraph three, more details, background from paragraph six onwards.) AMMAN (Dow Jones)--Norway's Statoil (STL.OS) is intending to sell its stake...
Peter Symonds: World Socialist Web Site wsws.org Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) | Michele Flournoy, who is retiring as US Undersecretary of Defence, told the media last Friday that Pentagon officials would be €œsitting down with the Iraqis in the coming month or two€ to discuss a program of exercises, training and other forms of security cooperation.
Iraq is demographically disproportionate, with half the country under the age of 19. Here, youth gather in the Tigris River. | Fifty percent of Iraq€™s population is under 19 years old. The younger generation is in a distinct position, having lived under the shadow of sanctions and wars for two full decades. Today, Worldview talks to a man who's focusing on helping to heal Iraq's youth.
By Sarah Tompkins sarah.tompkins@nwi.com, (219) 836-3780 nwitimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:45 pm | Loading... | He claims that his employer was opposed to allowing reservists to return to work after their deployment, and when they did return, they were subjected to harassment.
A Kovai hospital has become the saviour for Velusamy who migrated from Kallakuruchi in Tamil Nadu to Iraq in search of a job and then came home with severe stab wounds in his abdomen. | At least two surgeries €” one in Iraq and the other in Dubai €” failed, following which Velusamy was brought to KG hospital in Kovai where a marathon surgery saved his life. | Velusami had migrated to Iraq two years ago and was employed in an ice factory.
Baghdad: Disagreement on Syria is one underlying cause of the current diplomatic row between Iraq and Turkey, analysts say, but crucial economic ties are likely to prevent a serious escalation.
"Usama al-Nujeify has received the US Ambassador to Baghdad, James Jeffery, at his Baghdad office, and both sides have discussed the bilateral relations between Iraq and the United State, and mans for their strengthening within the framework...
AFP: Iraq is to host an Arab summit on March 29, the first since the Arab Spring that swept away several dictators and brought Islamists to the fore, a senior Arab League official said on Wednesday.
By Inside Retail The store is located in Sulaymaniyah in northern part of Iraq with more than 5 million inhabitants. “This store has opened very quickly since signing the Master License Agreement with the Iraqi consortium that also own Pepsi Iraq.
The Iraqi parliament on Thursday approved an anti-smoking law that stipulates a roughly $8.50 fine for smoking in public, in a country where such smoking is a fixture. | "The law aims to protect citizens from the danger of tobacco and reduce the number of smokers by taking measures to combat this plague," the law reads. | The law is to take effect 90 days after it is published in the official gazette.
During one of her tours in Iraq, Lt. Col. Nicole Balliet holds a thermometer that reads a temperature of 120 degrees. | Some columns take longer to gestate than others. This one, for example, had its genesis about a year ago when I first talked with Lt. Col. Nicole Balliet while she was the garrison commander of Contingency Base Adder in Iraq.
By Thamer Qamqum ARAR — breakthrough is expected in the dossier of Saudi prisoners in Iraq. The official in charge of bilateral relations at the Iraqi embassy in Riyadh said he expects a breakthrough especially regarding Saudis facing the death penalty...
Now it seems the world is sold a withdrawal from Iraq which was not quite what it seemed as presented by the Panetta-Obama-fest in the Baghdad, Fort Bragg speeches of just six weeks ago. At Fort Bragg: €œThe war in Iraq will soon belong to history €¦€ said the President. | Little noticed is that the State Department has been operating drones in Iraq since last year.
Historians often bemoan the lack of primary sources in ancient conflicts. There will be no such lack for the recent Iraq War. David Westbrook and Diyar Alhusseini have collaborated to produce the new novel “An Uncommon Friendship: During the War...
American sanctions on Iran pose difficulties for Iraq because of its close economic ties with the Islamic republic, so Baghdad plans to seek a waiver from the US, the government spokesman told AFP.
Regardless, we fomented an invasion plan and a bombing assault on cities and towns. No declaration of war was declared. Why? Because there was no reason to declare war on Iraq. We used a mumble-jumble of scrambled (so-called)
Approximately 14,000 soldiers ran through Fort Bragg Thursday morning to mark the homecoming of the 18th Airborne Corps from Iraq. The last soldiers in that unit returned in December.
By Sarah Tompkins sarah.tompkins@nwi.com, (219) 836-3780 nwitimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:45 pm | Loading... | He claims that his employer was opposed to allowing reservists to return to work after their deployment, and when they did return, they were subjected to harassment.
President Barack Obama drew a bipartisan standing ovation from members of Congress last week when he warned Iran that pursuing nuclear weapons is a red line the Islamic Republic shouldn't cross. | "Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal," Obama said to sustained applause during his Jan. 24 State of the Union address.
Keywords: by John Glaser, January 31, 2012 Iraqi security forces have detained 16 of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's bodyguards, according to the interior ministry, in the latest attempt to incriminate him. Hashemi is in hiding in Iraq's semi-autonomous...
The number of civilians killed in violence rose slightly in January, according to government figures released on Wednesday, despite a series of lethal attacks that followed Iraq's worst political crisis in a year.
A bomb targeted Iraqi MP Qais al-Shadhr's convoy in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, wounding five civilians who were nearby, an interior ministry official said. | The convoy was travelling in the Ameen area of eastern Baghdad when the bomb exploded, the official said. | Shadhr, who was kicked out of the secular Iraqiya bloc along with five other MPs last month for refusing to boycott parliament, was not wounded in the blast.
Steve Hargreaves: STRINGER Iraq / ReutersNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The deteriorating situation in Iraq is leading some analysts to worry that the country may not be able to meet its lofty goals for rapidly ramping up oil production. | Violence in Iraq is a big problem, especially for the people who live there. | While attacks are still far below levels seen in the years after the U.S.
Keywords: €“ An al-Qaeda front group in Iraq claimed responsibility for a bloody attack on a government compound in the Islamist militants' former stronghold west of Baghdad last month and vowed more attacks on the Shiite-led government as it tries to make up with its Sunni-backed members. | Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in front of a government compound in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad on Jan. 15.
U.S. President Barack Obama. | President Barack Obama drew a bipartisan standing ovation from members of Congress last week when he warned Iran that pursuing nuclear weapons is a red line the Islamic Republic shouldn€™t cross. | €œLet there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal,€ Obama said to sustained applause during his Jan.
0: Corruption poses a major threat to Iraq, so much so that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said it is €œas dangerous€ to the country€™s stability as terrorism, according to a U.S. watchdog. Iraq is one of the countries least able to control corruption, according to World Bank information cited in a report to the U.S. Congress by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Iraq ranked 175th out of 182 countries...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) today raised the alert level over Iraq to level 3, calling for “voluntary repatriation” amidst recent violence in the country. "Under Alert Level 3, Filipinos who wish to leave Iraq are offered voluntary...
Iraq is not suffering sectarian strife as much as what could be called intra-sectarian conflict, in which rivals from both the country€™s Shiite- and Sunni-dominated parties reposition themselves amid the political fray. | HAYDER AL-KHOEI is a Researcher at the Centre for Academic Shi€™a Studies.
Manila, Philippines – The Department of Foreign Affairs raised yesterday alert level 3 over Iraq (voluntary repatriation) prompted by the higher than expected surge in terrorist and sectarian violence in that country following the withdrawal of United States military forces in December 2011.
MANILA, Philippines – Crisis alert level 3 has been raised in Iraq, which means the government will facilitate the voluntary repatriation of all Filipinos in the country, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Wednesday.
Camp Pendleton troops and community supporters will gather to honor the living and the dead from Marine Corps history at several events on the San Diego County base this week, when a memorial to troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan is unveiled, the Marine Corps€™ most decorated combat division is rededicated and the service of Korean War veterans is heralded.
Unless you're glued to Reddit or Twitter, you probably missed this. While we were celebrating a frivolous five-year-anniversary, the family of Army Sgt. William M. Sigua, 82nd Airborne, was commemorating a very different kind of five-year anniversary.
As reported in The Nation on January 31, US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction informed the US Congress that based on audit conducted by it, approximately $ 2 billion have remained unaccounted for, which is a polite way of saying that the amount has been misappropriated, rather stolen to be b exact. The offence seems far more serious when one considers that the amount fiddled was out of a total sum of approximately $ 3 billion...
Keywords: (UPDATED 11:00 am) - Amid the recent bombings in Iraq, the Philippine government on Wednesday raised the alert level there to "3," encouraging voluntary repatriation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in affected areas. The Philippine Department...
"Through our exhibition, we want people to know the situations in Iraq and Fukushima and keep remembering them," said Maki Sato, secretary general of the Tokyo-based NGO. | Sato also said he hopes this event will help create "kizuna," or bonds, between Iraq and Fukushima. | The Japanese translations of some 10 messages from Iraq encouraging people in Fukushima and Japan will also be displayed.
LANGLEY €” An Iraq War veteran and local community volunteer is making plans to start a medical marijuana business in Langley. | Lucas Jushinski met with city officials last week to outline his plan for a medical marijuana €œaccess point,€ which would be located in a low-key facility just outside the downtown area. Langley leaders have been cautiously supportive of the idea, and will hold a special meeting Feb.
MANILA, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 (MALAYA) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday that it has upgraded the crisis alert level in Iraq from level 2 to level 3 following the higher than expected instances of terrorism and sectarian violence in the country following the withdrawal of US military troops last December 2011.
The PDBR will let these veterans know they can apply to have the board review their records €“ which could result in higher benefits or even full medical retirement. The mailings were scheduled to start in January. | The PDBR was established in 2009 to allow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to appeal their service-assigned disability ratings.
Baghdad. Corruption poses a major threat to Iraq, so much so that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said it is “as dangerous” to the country's stability as terrorism, according to a US watchdog. Iraq is one of the countries least able to control...
Under alert level 3, which covers all regions of Iraq except the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan, Filipinos who wish to leave Iraq are offered voluntary repatriation at government expense. | Have something to report? Tell us in text, photos or videos. | "The alert was prompted by the higher than expected surge in terrorist and sectarian violence in Iraq following the withdrawal of United States (US)"