Tue. December 02, 2008
Iraq cities, towns and villages:
KBS
December 2, 2008
The Zaytun troops' achievement in the
Kurdish-controlled
Iraqi city will be remembered as an influential example of peacekeeping efforts in the
global ...
South Korea's Zaytun unit, deployed in northern Iraq's Irbil area, officially concluded its military operations in the country on Monday. ...
Arab Times
December 2, 2008
Turkish warplanes bombed
Kurdish separatist positions in northern
Iraq on Monday, the head of Iraq's border guards in Dahuk said. ...
The first South Korean "Zaytun" contingent - the Arabic word for olive and the troops' code name for their mission - was sent to Irbil in September 2004 ...
Baghdad, Dec 1, (Agencies): Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 30 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, ...
CNN
December 1, 2008
This
Iraqi family, which left
Tal Afar for
Karbala in 2005, is one of the country's many internally displaced families. Around 140000 uprooted people ...
Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence that erupted after a Shiite shrine in Samarra was bombed in 2006 sparked civil warfare that also spurred people to flee. ...
Guterres spent three days in Iraq last week, visiting Najaf in the Shiite region and Ramadi in the Sunni area. He met with local officials and briefed ...
... improvements in the Iraqi security forces; and the central government's offensives against Shiite militants in Basra, Baghdad's Sadr City and Amara, ...
American Chronicle
December 1, 2008
The Turkmen nature of
Tuz Khurmatu, (which was considered one of the largest of
Kerkuk´s districts before detachment in 1976), and the villages around it, ...
... an ex-mudir and a keen farmer, had spent a large fortune making an irrigation canal on his land in the Hawija plain bordering the Lesser Zab River. ...
"The administrative status of Kirkuk was very different from that of Sulaimani. Although the liwa had not yet acceded to Faisal's kingdom it was being ...
"Kirkuk and Arbil, especially the former, provided large numbers of officials to the Turkish government, who favored them owing to their knowledge of the ...
GulfNews
December 1, 2008
The government also approved plans to build a 300000 barrel-a-day refinery in
Nasiriyah, which will export refined products when it is completed, ...
Iraq also started producing refined products at the 10000 barrel-a-day refinery in Diwaniya, located 180 kilometres south of Baghdad,
Baiji, the country's largest refinery with a capacity of 310000 barrels a day, operates at about 75 per cent capacity because of repeated disruptions and ...
... barrel-a-day refinery in Nasiriyah, which will export refined products when it is completed, and a 150000 barrel-a-day plant in Karbala, Jihad said. ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 2, 2008
Hitchens said, "Well, he's been rescued by the
Iraqi Parliament. I mean, he's probably the luckiest
politician one's ever seen since Kennedy in any case. ...
International Herald Tribune
December 2, 2008
AP
Kuwait CITY:
Iraq and Kuwait have signed a protocol outlining how their vessels patrol and interact in a joint waterway between their shores in the ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 2, 2008
Nearly 6000 lives have been lost - more than all
US casualties in Iraq. With no end in sight, Mr. Calderón now says he can't win if
the US doesn't do more ...
Voice of America
December 2, 2008
Secretary Gates says senior officers are looking at how to do that, now that there is a US-Iraqi agreement in place. "The commanders are already looking at ...
New York Times
December 2, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune
December 2, 2008
The pact calls for
US soldiers to withdraw from
Iraqi cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009. That will shift most of the security burden directly to ...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
December 2, 2008
During that deployment, troops from the 101st liberated the
Iraqi cities of
Najaf,
Karbala and
Hillah; secured southern
Baghdad; and participated in the ...
International Herald Tribune
December 2, 2008
The
Iraqi Parliament has approved a strategic agreement requiring US combat forces to pull out of cities by June 2009 and all
American troops to leave the ...
Washington Post
December 2, 2008
Even today, you can travel for a half-hour across the sprawling city and not see a single woman driving. But with the sharp drop in violence this year, ...
Los Angeles Times
December 2, 2008
The pact includes withdrawal dates -- June 30, 2009, for combat troops to leave cities, towns and villages and Dec. 31, 2011, for all troops to leave
Iraq. ...
Washington Post
December 1, 2008
One of the most dramatic celebrations of
Barack Obama's election as president took place neither in Obama's ancestral village Nyangoma Kogelo, ...
Online Journal
December 1, 2008
In
Iraq, the city of
Baghdad has been transformed into a gigantic gated community of a distinctly different nature. In America, we have attractive fencing ...
Chicago Tribune
December 1, 2008
And he said the recently approved US-
Iraq security accord-requiring all 150000
US forces to withdraw from major cities such as
Mosul by mid-2009 and the ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 1, 2008
Catholic Weekly
December 1, 2008
Under the pact,
the United States would remove combat forces from
Iraqi cities and villages by the end of June 2009. "The vote represents a step forward, ...
KRNV
December 1, 2008
CARSON CITY (AP) -- A Carson City man is pressing for a new investigation into his son's 2006 death in
Iraq. Roger Suarez says a report by an online ...
Arizona Republic
December 1, 2008
Gordon said he could not run the nation's fifth-largest city without the mobile electronic device. "For me, it's my Bible," he said. ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 1, 2008
The choice of Mr. Jones, a retired Marine general with deep Washington roots, will help Obama to establish his own national security identity in a town wary ...
New York Times
December 1, 2008
From August through October, the average number of daily attacks by
Insurgents exceeded those in
Iraq, the first time the violence in
Afghanistan had ...
Gainesville Times
December 1, 2008
By Jeff Gill For the third time since 2005, Oakwood City Manager Stan Brown has been deployed for a tour of duty in
Iraq as a
US Air Force reservist. ...
Voice of America
December 1, 2008
The retired general says the
Iraq war has caused
the US to "take its eye off the ball" in
Afghanistan and has warned the consequences of a failure there are ...
CNN
December 1, 2008
This Iraqi family, which left
Tal Afar for
Karbala in 2005, is one of the country's many internally displaced families. Around 140000 uprooted people ...
Xinhua
December 1, 2008
According to a US-
Iraq pact, titled the Status of Forces Agreement, the
US troops will withdraw from Iraq's cities, towns and villages by June 30 next year ...
Los Angeles Times
December 1, 2008
Vineland Daily Journal
December 1, 2008
The pact still has to be ratified by
Iraq's presidential council, which is expected to approve it. Iraqi voters will get to approve or reject the agreement ...
San Antonio Express
December 1, 2008
"We know a lot of the wounded who are being treated, and they really need more family assistance," Woodruff, who was badly wounded while covering the
Iraq ...
USA Today
December 1, 2008
In collaboration with other administration
officials, the incoming secretary of State will deal with the withdrawal of
US troops from
Iraq, efforts to turn ...
Kansas City Star
November 30, 2008
Reuters
November 30, 2008
In addition,
Iraq will ask the
United Nations to safeguard Iraqi funds from compensation claims until it has had an opportunity to develop the legislation ...
Aljazeera.net
November 30, 2008
The handover of bodies took place on Sunday near the southern Iraqi port city of
Basra,
ICRC said in a statement. Only 10 Iranian
soldiers and 23 Iraqi ...
Xinhua
November 30, 2008
30 (Xinhua) --
Iraqi security forces have found a mass grave containing 33 decomposed bodies in a village in the volatile province of
Diyala, ...
Washington Post
November 30, 2008
The agreement, approved by
Iraq's Parliament Thursday, calls for
US troops to withdraw from towns and cities by next summer and from
Iraq by the end of 2011 ...
Detroit Free Press
November 30, 2008
In
Mosul, now
Iraq's deadliest city, this year opened with coordinated attacks on
Churches and monasteries as
Christians celebrated Epiphany. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 29, 2008
The attack was one of dozens of recent incidents in the sprawling Mexican border city, where nearly 300 people have been killed since late-September - many ...
Reuters
November 29, 2008
New York Times
November 29, 2008
Since then, the
United Nations Assistance Mission for
Iraq has moved its headquarters to the
Green Zone, which houses the most senior American and Iraqi ...
New York Times
November 29, 2008
He has said the
war in Iraq has caused the nation to "take its eye off the ball" in
Afghanistan and warned that the consequences of a failure there were ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2008
And the overall need for
Iraqi refugee resettlement remains enormous. More than 3 million refugees have fled Iraq, and 1.5 million more have been displaced ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2008
John Kelly, the top Marine in
Iraq, this particular meeting at the Iraqi-Saudi border was part of his "last 10 yards" strategy to disengage
the Marines from ...
