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Meanwhile in Syria a civil war is brewing, emboldened by hopes of NATO riding in to the rescue on its white charger and winning the war for them from 10,000 feet. And of course in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Egypt the power brokrs are getting back to...
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Shadid, who died Thursday at age 43, strove to capture untold stories in Middle East conflicts from Libya to Iraq. Most recently, he managed to get through the border area in Turkey adjoining Syria's Idlib Province with the aid of smugglers, the Times...
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Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Iraq's highest court, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad February 16, 2012. A panel of Iraqi judges detailed on Thursday 150 attacks they said were carried out by death squads... View Photo »
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I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays.
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There were American generals who proposed bombing Chinese nuclear facilities to prevent it getting a bomb. But LBJ wisely demurred. China got the bomb and the skies didn’t fall. But it could’ve gone either way: “No country in the post-World War II...
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Feb 17 (IANS) More than a million migratory birds that thronged various lakes and marshlands of Odisha, flying in from as far places as Siberia and Iraq, have started their return journey back home, an official said Friday. "The birds have begun their...
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IEDs in Afghanistan are almost always the same simple pressure-plate design, built around two strips of metal or carbon that are held slightly apart. Household electrical wires are attached to each strip and to a battery pack made up of domestic batteries.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 16: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) (L) and ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) talk during a hearing about the current and future worldwide threats to the security of the United States on... View Photo »
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The Baath Party fell with Saddam in Iraq in 2003. Until it is toppled in Syria, regional instability can only grow.
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Sometimes this gets in the way of objectivity. Anthony, who saw more terrible things than most, managed to stay closer to the ideal than any one. That's what makes his reporting the best and why in years to come, it will truly be seen as the first draft...
About Iraq
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The Republic of Iraq (conventional short form: Iraq) (Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the... Full Article
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 photo, Iraqi smuggler Younis al-Lehaibi, 46, dismantles an AK-47 machine-gun at his house in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. To be successfully smuggled into Syria, the rifles are taken apart and hidden in cigarette cartons...
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Iraqis hold portraits of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (L) and his assassinated father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (R), during a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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