Washington, 13 May 2008 -- A former senior US official in Iraq on Monday accused the State Department of recklessly misleading Americans over the country's plight and contributing to the deaths and maiming of US soldiers.
Retired judge Arthur Brennan...
Falluja, 12 May 2008 -- Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration – much of it already eaten away by official corruption.
Iraqis survived the sanctions after the first Gulf War (1990) with...
Washington, 07 May 2008 -- As many women carried out suicide attacks in Iraq so far this year as in the five previous years combined, and attacks by women are expected to spike again in the coming months, a US terrorism expert said Monday.
"Between...
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq, 07 May 2008 -- Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the US for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a rebel group...
Washington, 02 May 2008 -- The White House said Wednesday that it had "paid a price" for the "Mission Accomplished" backdrop to US President George W. Bush's May 1, 2003 Iraq speech, saying it left the wrong...
Baghdad, 15 May 2008 -- Iraqi economists have raised inflation alarms as prices of goods continue to soar, with some describing announced deflation rates as an "illusion" that serves publicity purposes.
Hossam al-Samouk...
Baghdad, 15 May 2008 -- The Iraqi government should rely primarily on its financial and human resources, rather than donor countries, to carry out its reconstruction projects, a senior advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Planning sai...
Baghdad, 14 May 2008 -- Iraq's Stock Exchange (ISX) index dropped by 0.06 percent to settle at 37.246 points at the closing of Tuesday's session, the fifth this month.
Traded shares in Tuesday's session exceeded 868 million at a ...
Baghdad, 14 May 2008 -- The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) opened its session on Tuesday with a 32-million-shares-contract.
The contract was concluded by an Iraqi company, which bought 32 million shares from al-Sarar Company for Agri...
Baghdad, 14 May 2008 -- Iraqi economists, including the economic advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, demanded the Central Bank (CBI) to abandon its tight monetary policy, because of its negative impact on the national econo...
Baghdad, 13 May 2008 -- Iraq's Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation said that it is time for "economic Knights' Assault and Lion's Roar" in the country, in reference to the military operations that were launc...
Baghdad, 13 May 2008 -- Trade Ministry discusses holding wide international exhibition in Baghdad besides other specialized ones after high success that achieved by 1st national trade and industry exhibition that held on the Inter...
10 May 2008 -- Adviser of the Iraqi Central Bank, Dr Mazhar Salih, confirmed the continuation of the monetary policy aiming at reducing the size of inflation in the national economy, leading to a stable environment for growth.
S...
Baghdad, 12 May 2008 -- The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) closed its session on Sunday with a 100,000-share contract at a value of 1.400 Iraqi dinars (1 U.S. dollar = 1,222 Iraqi dinars) per share.
The stock market opened its sessio...
Baghdad, 12 May 2008 -- The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) opened its session on Sunday with two 5-million-share contracts.
The first contract was concluded by an Iraqi company, which bought 161,000 shares at a value of 1 Iraqi dinar...
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