Iraq cuts oil product supplies to Kurdish region
Iraq cuts oil product supplies to Kurdish region
Iraq war: the conflict in statistics
As US combat troops pull out of Iraq, we pull together the key datasets of the war from 2003 to 2010 • Get the data Yesterday, US president Barack Obama formally announced the withdrawal of the final combat troops from Iraq , nearly seven-and-a-half years since the American military first entered the country, in March 2003. To mark the end of a combat presence in Iraq (49,700 US troops will ...
Iraq's oil future may be vulnerable after US exit
Iraq's oil future may be vulnerable after US exitIraq's oil future may be vulnerable after US exit
Iraq Combat Continues: Despite Formal End, U.S. Joins Baghdad Battle
BAGHDAD Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.
Iraq Launches IED Training Center
BAGHDAD [MENL] -- Iraq has unveiled a training center meant to teach security forces to detect, identify and neutralize improvised explosive devices. Copyrights 2008, Middle East Newsline.
Iraq Dispatch: Surviving Lions From the Saddam Regime
BAGHDAD | During our blogging from Iraq, we've been marking the transformation of a few notable places in Baghdad from 2003 to now. One symbol of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's extravagances was a zoo the family kept in one of its palaces. Though the palace grounds were badly damaged during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the three lions survived -- discovered by coalition forces in a ...
Iraq hit home
Many Americans didn't even bother to watch President Obama's speech on Iraq last week. They didn't pay attention to the official end of the seven-year war they'd all but forgotten. But the families of the more than 4,400 Americans killed in Iraq -- including several from our area -- never had that luxury. Nor did the more than 31,000 Americans who were wounded. The war will dog them and their ...
Blair defends Iraq decision on U.S. television
As the United States ended its combat mission in Iraq, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, America's biggest ally at the outset of the war, said the decision to invade Iraq was a necessary one.
Iraq tightens oilfield security in south
Iraq has tightened security around oil infrastructure and oilfields in the south in response to intelligence suggesting al Qaeda and other insurgent groups plan to attack oil facilities a security official said.
Iraq oil future may be vulnerable as US ends combat operations
Reuters/Baghdad After an explosive device tore through the back of an armoured SUV carrying Chinese oil workers in Iraq in mid-July, security contractors said the US military, not China’s Daqing Petroleum, was the likely target.