Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 23:26:28 +0000
The US government ordered the evacuation of non-emergency staff from its Baghdad embassy Wednesday due to an “imminent” threat from Iranian-linked Iraqi militias, but President Donald Trump predicted that Iran would “soon” want to start talks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:43:52 +0000
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Germany-based Siemens on April 30 confirmed reports that Iraq has chosen Siemens as its main partner in what it calls a “roadmap” agreement to develop power generation projects in the country. Siemens in a news release Tuesday confirmed that the document was signed by Joe Kaeser, president and […]
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Credit to Author: Sona Boker| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:42:38 +0000
After her entire family fled Iraq, my grandmother stayed behind because she didn’t want to give up on the country she loves.
Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:57:03 +0000
After a decade in the limelight, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains an evasive and polarizing figure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:04:32 +0000
A U.S.-backed Syrian force said Saturday that it has liberated the last area held by the Islamic State group in the eastern Syrian village
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:10:11 +0000
BAGHDAD — A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year sank in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing at least 71 people, mostly women and children, officials said.
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Credit to Author: Rebecca Gibian| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:34:53 +0000
“My mom, when she’s asking me when will I get married… I tell her, ‘Find me someone as strong as me and I will marry them, I promise.’”
Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:42:47 +0000
IS fighters facing defeat in Syria are slipping across the border into Iraq, where they are destabilizing the country’s fragile security.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:03:00 +0000
Multibillion-dollar energy deals that both Siemens and General Electric (GE) signed with the Iraqi government last year may not come to fruition, according to the country’s electricity minister. The Financial Times on February 10 reported that Luay Al-Khatteeb, who took his post late last year after the deals were brokered, told the newspaper, “I don’t […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:50:34 +0000
King Felipe VI of Spain on Wednesday visited special forces helping Iraq fight jihadists, a diplomat said.
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