Iraq

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press – Thu Dec 16, 2:09 am ET UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council gave a unanimous vote of confidence Wednesday to the significant strides Iraq has taken by lifting 19-year-old sanctions on weapons and civilian nuclear power. The council also decided to …

By Leila Fadel and Ali al-Qeisy Wednesday, November 17, 2010; 11:20 PM Source: The Washington Post IN BAGHDAD Our Lady of Salvation church, once a vibrant center of prayer in this predominantly Muslim city, is nearly empty now. Last month, in a more than four-hour siege, gunmen shot their way …

ADO – Baghdeda, Iraq On Tuesday October 12, 2010, the Baghdeda Security Guards in coordination with the Kurdish Asayish Forces captured Ali Muhammad Idris Sadeq, a top Al-Qaeda leader, in the town of Baghdeda, Iraq.  He is currently detained and being questioned.

 by Jamal Hashim   BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — With the clock ticking to the new year of 2010, Iraqis seem more and more optimistic for welfare as normalcy is coming back at a snail’s pace despite sporadic waves of fatal car bombs.     Many Iraqis are enthusiastic to the idea …

Wednesday, 11 November 2009   Ethnic minorities living in northern Iraq face a human rights "catastrophe" as Arabs and Kurds vie for control, Human Rights Watch has warned. Yazidis, Shabaks and Christians faced attacks by Sunni Muslim extremists and harassment by Kurdish forces, it said. HRW called on Kurdish leaders …

George Weigel Newsweek Web Exclusive Oct 6, 2008 | Updated: 2:44  p.m. ET Oct 6, 2008 Between “gotcha” questions and the ubiquitous gaffe-watch, there hasn’t been much serious moral debate in the endgame of this presidential campaign. In fact, there hasn’t been a serious exploration of the moral kernel of so many of today’s …

Al-Dabbagh: The killer of Bishop Polus Faraj Rahho receives the death sentence    The government of Iraq Spokesman, Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh announced today that the Iraqi Central Criminal Court has sentenced convict Ahmed Ali Ahmed (known as “Abu Omar”) to death because of his involvement in the murder of Bishop …

Friday, 28 September 2007     The US military said Abu Osama al-Tunisi was a “key loss” to al-Qaeda A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military reports. Gen Joseph Anderson said the death of Abu Osama …

Friday, 28 September 2007     Turkish and Iraqi interior ministers ironed out most of their differences Iraq and Turkey have signed a security agreement aimed at curbing the activities of the Turkish Kurdish separatist group, the PKK. However, the final agreement does not include a key Turkish proposal that …

State Department officials and the Iraqi ambassadors to the United States and the United Nations are among those scheduled to speak in Ceres on Saturday in front of one of the world’s largest Assyrian organizations. The Assyrian National Congress will hold a two-day conference with about 150 delegates representing 12 …