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...
Basra, 15 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Umm al-Qasr received two ships from Panama, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said on Wednesday.
"Two Panamanian ships arrived on Wednesday mor...
Basra, 14 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Umm al-Qasr received a cargo ship from North Korea, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said on Tuesday.
"The North Korean ship, which arrived on...
Basra, 13 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Umm al-Qasr received two ships from Britain and Panama with varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said on Monday.
"The first ship is...
Basra, 11 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Umm al-Qasr received three ships from Panama and the United States with varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said on Saturday.
"The...
Basra, 10 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Umm al-Qasr received two cargo ships on Friday, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said.
"The port received a Panamanian ship carrying 195 conta...
Basra, 09 May 2008 -- Basra's port of Khour al-Zubeir received an oil tanker and two cement cargo ships on Thursday, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said.
"This morning, the port ...
08 May 2008 -- Daimler AG, the world's largest truckmaker, plans to open an office in Baghdad by the end of the year because it is confident that situation in Iraq is improving, reported Bloomberg.
The company will be establishin...
07 May 2008 -- Iraq yesterday signed two deals worth US$5 billion ($6.37 billion) to buy 40 planes from Boeing and 10 planes from Canada's Bombardier to upgrade Iraqi Airways' ageing fleet, the finance minister said.
The deals we...
Baghdad, 07 May 2008 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attended the signing event of the purchase of 65 civilian aircrafts from the U.S. Boeing Company and the Canadian Bombardier.
Al-Maliki described the contract as a "proo...
Iraq, 06 May 2008 -- Boeing and the Government of Iraq announced an order for 30 Boeing 737-800 commercial airplanes, the first step in re-establishing that country's scheduled commercial aviation operations. Iraq has also contrac...
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