Tag - Iraq
With the completion of the withdrawal of 28,500 US troops posted in the recent military build up in Iraq, the country for now is taking in a gasp of fresh but temporary calm. According to Pentagon only 490 deaths have been reported in the month of...
Iraqi Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki has an unenvious job. He has to keep the Americans as well as his countrymen happy. Lately there have been increasing voices in the Iraqi parliament against any deal with the US to enable its forces to continue...
Neither can constructing a wall divide the citizens of a country nor can it bring peace to the region. The Americans however has oversimplified the idiom that out of sight is out of mind and have thought that the only solution that lay in bringing...
That the situation in Iraq is changing from bad to worse after the US invasion has been proved once again in a recent United Nations report that said that the militia in Iraq are recruiting children for suicidal attacks. The Al-Qaeda is training...
When the U.S.A led NATO forces invaded Iraq, they promised the Iraqis better life and more liberty than what they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein’s regime. However, situation in Iraq became worse jeopardizing the secularism of the country. Basra, in...
The Americans are now builing a wall around southern parts of Sadr city, the Shia dominated area of Baghdad. The idea is to prevent more Shia fighters of the Mahdi army from entering the area.
After the Iraqi governemnt's recent offensive against...
President Bush seems to manage to find some ratioanle for his foreign policy actions. In 2003 he told us that the bad Saddam Hussain had nuclear weapons, chemical weapoms and what not. The world half believed it then. And we have the US army sitting in...
Iran, Iraq and America have long been involved in a series of battles since the Gulf war and I suffice it to say that hegemonic American attitude and opportunism made the atmosphere hostile, along with the already existing animosity between these...
More than 40 people died and 255 were injured as fresh violence broke out in Basra, the southern city of Iraq and the third largest city with a population of approximately 2.6 million, where Shia militants continue to battle the security forces. Nouri...
There might be a war going on in Iraq, but the daily humdrum lives of millions of Iraqis goes on. And what is bothering the common people of the war torn country the most is the lack of electricity. It does come, but the supply is erratic. What has led...
Now that President Bush is on his way out and the US has been left red-faced by the Iraqi invasion; scapegoats have to be found. And whom better than an erstwhile Iraqi named Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka Curveball. TimesOnline goes all out to prove the...
Young Iraqis are finding it difficult to cope up with their political and religious condition. More and more youngsters are losing faith. They are ignorant about whom to turn to and whom to trust. A country battling with extremism and dictatorship,...
President Ahmadinejad is visiting Iraq. The US forces rather ungraciously stayed away from providing security (or was it Iran did not want it) during his visit. Even a helicopter was not provided. Bush just the other day called on Iran to 'quit...
After the United States of America occupied Iraq, it allied with the leaders of the Shiite Iraqis who form the majority of the Iraqi population, to help them form government. Despite of belonging to the minority Sunni community, the former Iraqi...
Nearly two million Iraqis who fled to Syria and Jordan are not willing to return to their homes. Recently the Iraqi government has arranged a bus from Damascus to Baghdad to to bring Iraqis back. But most of the people who returned to Baghdad, not...
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