December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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October 20, 2011
US soldiers walk past tanks at a courtyard at Camp Liberty in Baghdad September 30, 2011. The Obama administration denied a news report on Saturday it had made a final decision to pull almost all US troops out of Iraq by a year-end withdrawal deadline. The White House and Pentagon both denied an Associated Press [...]
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December 12, 2009
The world’s leading energy companies won rights to develop two major oil fields in Iraq at an auction on Friday. Delegates are seen at the second bidding round for Iraqi oil fields in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, Dec. 11, 2009. More than 40 campanies attended the bidding on Friday.Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas were [...]
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November 10, 2009
The Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday approved by majority a long-awaited election law which would govern the country’s national polls scheduled for January. Iraqi parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai (C) speaks to the press following an Iraqi Parliament session in which a law to govern the country’s general elections was agreed upon in Baghdad Nov.8, 2009. (Xinhua/AFP [...]
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September 15, 2009
The Iraqi television reporter, who was jailed for hurling his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush, was released from a Baghdad prison on Tuesday. Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi (C with beard and sunglasses) is seen upon arrival at the Al-Baghdadya television station following his release from prison in Baghdad September 15, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters [...]
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September 11, 2009
At least 25 people were killed and some 75 others injured in a series of bombings across Iraq Thursday. Spate of explosions in Iraq chills worsened stability The most deadliest blast in the day was in northern Iraq when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed truck bomb and blew it up among clay and stone [...]
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August 27, 2009
Iraqi powerful Shiite leader and head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) Abdul Aziz Hakim died of cancer Wednesday in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of Shi’ite religious political party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in Baghdad in this January [...]
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August 20, 2009
A series of deadly bomb attacks struck Baghdad Wednesday with at least 97 people killed and about 585 others injured. A wounded man leaves the scene of an explosion outside the foreign ministry in central Baghdad, August 19, 2009.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)The bloodiest attacks occurred when two truck bombs struck the Iraqi Foreign and Finance Ministries before [...]
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August 3, 2009
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki paid a visit on Sunday to the northern Kurdish region to hold talks with Kurdish leaders over disputes of oil and land. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L), Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani (C) and Kurdish President Masoud Barzani meet in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region near Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) [...]
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