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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
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opens an oil pipe valve during the inauguration of a new Single Point Mooring (SPM) outlet in Iraq's southern province of Basra February 12, 2012. Iraq opened a new Gulf crude export outlet in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, clearing the way...
View Photo »Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing...
View Photo »Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, symbolically opens the valve of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing revenue for...
View Photo »Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi, speaks during an interview with the AFP at his offices in Baghdad on February 11, 2012. Assadi said, Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. There are...
View Photo »In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 photo, an Iraqi couple leave a shop selling Valentine's Day gifts in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the...
View Photo »Iraqi police display men arrested for drug smuggling in Baghdad February 11, 2012. Seven men were arrested attempting to smuggle over 4 kg of hashish into Iraq, according to Iraqi police.
View Photo »Iraq's secret services chief Taher Jalil Habbush shows in Baghdad 21 August 2002 a fake passport which he said belonged to international terrorist Abu Nidal, with an Iranian visa stamped on it. Abu Nidal, who's real name was Sabri al-Banna, committed suicide in the Iraqi capital by...
View Photo »Iraq's secret services chief Taher Jalil Habbush shows pictures in Baghdad 21 August 2002 of International terrorist Abu Nidal after he shot himself (R) and fake identity documents (L). Abu Nidal, who's real name was Sabri al-Banna, committed suicide in the Iraqi capital by shooting...
View Photo »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.
View Photo »Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (picture R) attends 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.
View Photo »An Iraqi woman holds a portrait of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr 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.
View Photo »Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (picture R) hold an anti-US army picture (L) 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.
View Photo »Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave their national flag during a celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
View Photo »Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr chant anti-US slogans during a celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad, on February 9, 2012.
View Photo »Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Asadi speaks to Reuters during an interview in Baghdad February 8, 2012. Iraq's government intends to impose tough restrictions on private security companies to rein in what amounts to a "giant army" threatening the country's stability, a senior...
View Photo »Jessica Wallace, assistant, left, and and Erica Motley, right, hygienist, clean Army Staff Sergeant Brian Torres, a veteran of three combat tours of Iraq, teeth. Wounded Warrior Day was held at the Florida State College at Jacksonville's North Campus on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in...
View Photo »An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a new jetty harbour which opened at the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq on February 7, 2012. Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell,...
View Photo »Iraqi people unload their belongings from a bus that has travelled from Syria after arriving in Baghdad February 7, 2012. Many Iraqi families who escaped the violence in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 are now fleeing the violence in Syria, and returning home, though Iraq is...
View Photo »UAE players celebrate after scoring a goal against Iraq during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's players pose for a group picture before the start of their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match against UAE in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's Ahmad Yasin (R) challenges Rashed Issa (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's Ahmed Jabbar (L) heads the ball with Rashed Issa (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's Ahmed Jabbar (L) challenges Khamis Ismail (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's Ahmed Ibrahim (R) challenges Ali Ahmed (L) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
View Photo »Iraq's Ahmed Gheni (L) fights for the ball with UAE's Rashed Eisa (C) and Mohamed Abdelaziz during the FIFA men's Olympic Football Tournament 2012 in Doha February 5, 2012.
View Photo »Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opens an oil pipe valve during the inauguration of a new Single Point Mooring (SPM) outlet in Iraq's southern province of Basra February 12, 2012. Iraq opened a new Gulf crude export outlet in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, clearing the way...
View Photo »I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays.
The Baath Party fell with Saddam in Iraq in 2003. Until it is toppled in Syria, regional instability can only grow.
the military budget may be cut by up to a trillion dollars over a decade, far more than the $400 billion in 12-year savings that President Obama had proposed in his April 13, 2011, speech that signaled the White House's full engagement on the deficit issue ⌠above and beyond savings that will result, a...
and we're going to have to take action around the world to protect ourselves, and hopefully we can do it as we did with Osama bin Laden, as opposed to going to war, as we had to do in the case of Iraq. The right way...to keep us from having to go to those wars is to have a military so strong that no one...
because major representatives of the country’s Sunni Arabs have no interest in resorting to violence or start collaborating with al Qaeda in Iraq.
They could have been held as power plays by one Iraq department against another, but what adds to the problem is that it does not appear that the State Department is doing anything near what they could be doing
The United States, with Tony Blair as head cheerleader, will attack Iraq without proper authority, and a major war, the largest since World War II, will result.
Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq
It's neither stable nor democratic, frankly speaking ... The terrorists are hitting again very severely, and Al-Qaeda is fully operational now in Iraq.
Do you worry that in the rush to fulfill a campaign promise, the Obama administration is pulling out of Iraq too soon?
If Amnesty International had any intellectual honesty, it would give President Bush a medal to honor him for liberating so many oppressed Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and for assisting millions of AIDS victims in Africa
Indeed, in the past, embargoes imposed on Iraq did nothing to put the targeted Saddam Hussein regime behind the eight ball, but rather added to the existing misery of the Iraqi people. Likewise, the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina paved the way for massacres and proved lethal to Muslim Bosni...
Would president Obama ever consider sending trainers back into Iraq
The Sadrist Trend, led by the young Shiite Clergyman, Muqtada al-Sadr, had called for demonstrations all over Iraq today, in protest to the visit by US Vice-President, Joe Biden, to Iraq, considering the visit as an 'interference in Iraq's internal affairs.'
For the past five years, GML consultants have worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Horn of Africa providing procurement and acquisition management expertise to prime contractors supporting Department of Defense and Department of State mission needs for the United States Government (USD)
document, sent by the Intelligence Body of Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, confirming the involvement of al-Mahdi Army with the incident, demanding the government to detain those behind the assassination attempt.
install[ing] a decent, tolerant, pluralistic, multi-religious government in Iraq… would be the best answer and antidote to both Saddam and Osama.
Remembering what NATO did in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Russia has no barriers, moral or legal ones, for the use of force in the Caspian Sea.
We've passed a very difficult page of confronting al-Qaida and terrorism in Iraq during which we achieved joint success ... We made many sacrifices from both sides
President Obama’s administration kept its promises in Iraq ... violence decreased in the last two years to its lowest levels since 2003.
Biden flew to Iraq to participate in US-Iraqi Higher Coordinating Committee’s meetings and to convene with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Al Nujaifi as well as other Iraqi politicians
In October, President Obama announced that most U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, after negotiations with Iraqi leaders failed to extend the troops’ presence. Only Marine embassy guards and liaison troops will stay behind in the country, where more than a million troops, in total, hav...
Surely to prove that our politicians are dishonest men, and as such may have dishonest motives when they sent our boys to be killed in Iraq and in Afghanistan, is more important than jailing me for saying I hacked David Beckham's phone, for example, if I was going to say that
no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
President Obama's decision ... to not leave a small, focused presence in Iraq is a mistake and the product of his administration's failures
