Turmoil Reveals Iraqi Reliance on US
Region: Iraq
Week of explosions and fraught negotiations shows Iraq struggling to emerge from America’s shadow. By Abeer Mohammed in Baghdad and Neil Arun in Erbil Iraq’s extended dependence on American influence was lai... more
Views: 1140UN, Iraq, Afghanistan and Nepal
Region: Nepal
Speaking in a special press conference at the Headquarters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today regretted over the attack on the UN mission and the losses caused. He condemned the attack as a “shocking and s... more
Views: 2275Obama Meets With Iraq's al Maliki: Restates Bush's 2010-2011 Timetable For Troop Withdrawals
Region: United States
The AP reported today that in a meeting with Iraq's president, Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama reiterated the terms of the agreement reached in the last 100 days of the Bush Administration for American troop withdrawals beginni... more
Views: 2915Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
Region: AfghanistanAn Afghan policeman walks past a vehicle that had carried U.S. civilian contractors, after it was targeted by a suicide bomber in the Logar province. (Farzana Wahidy/AFP/Getty Images/January 2007 file photo) As the war ... more
Views: 1803Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
Region: IraqEDT Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented T... more
Views: 1665In Iraq, a Shoeshine Boy’s Brush With Danger
Region: IraqIraqi teenager’s story of survival on the mean streets of Shia city. By Wisam Tahir in Nasiriya (ICR No. 304, 07-Sep-09) Shining shoes for a living outside government offices, Ali knows more than most 13-year-ol... more
Views: 973Syria Briefing Syria home Syria-Iraq Ties Cool Over Bomb Charges
Region: Syrian Arab RepublicAmbassadors recalled just as relations were getting better. By an IWPR-trained reporter (SB No. 73, 28-Aug-09) A row over charges by Baghdad that Damascus is harbouring former Iraqi cadres responsible for the latest d... more
Views: 1250China acquires Nippon Oil
Region: China
The Chinese government has approved China National Petroleum Corp to buy 49 percent shares in its Japanese counterpart - Nippon Oil Corp to set up a joint venture in Japan. The JV will refine the crude o... more
Views: 2411New Wave of Violence Against Iraqi Gays
Region: Iraq
Rights advocate speaks of an "extraordinarily brutal campaign", saying hundreds may have been killed in last few months. By IWPR trainees in Baghdad (ICR No. 295, 3-July-09) Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in... more
Views: 1395Iraq: Ideology a must for independence
Region: IraqThe withdrawal of US troops from cities—not a bad thing in general—has for the time being pleased many in Iraq and USA. Ordinary civilians in Iraq want an end to the foreign occupation of their land on the one ... more
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