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Updated: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:58:54 +0300

News: Wars

100 Mortar Shells Found North of Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)
Police patrols on Monday found a stockpile of ammunitions, containing 100 mortar shells in the north of Kirkuk, a senior police officer said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
PUK Leader Killed North of Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)
Unknown gunmen killed a leading figure of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] under President Jalal Talabani, the chief of the local police said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Anbar Police Intelligence Chief Dies in Car Accident (Voices of Iraq)
The director of Anbar’s police intelligence died on Monday in a car accident in western Anbar while on duty, a senior police officer said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Weapons Depot Found in Diala (Voices of Iraq)
Iraqi army forces on Monday found a weapons depot in Muqdadiya district in the northeast of Baaquba, a security source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Gunmen Kill Woman in Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)
A woman was killed on Monday by unknown gunmen, while a bomb exploded without casualties in two separate incidents in Kirkuk, the chief of the local police said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Armed Attack on Medicine Student in Mosul (Voices of Iraq)
Unknown gunmen on Monday opened fire on a student from the faculty of medicine while he was performing tests in northern Mosul, a police source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Iraq Receives Remains of Iraqi-Iranian War Casualties (Voices of Iraq)
Iraqi authorities received on Monday the remains of casualties from the Iraqi-Iranian war from the Iranian side, according to a statement of the national information center.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
British Forces Set Up Joint Checkpoint in Basra (Voices of Iraq)
British forces in southern Iraq said on Monday that engineers from the Multi-National Forces finalized the establishment of a joint checkpoint in central Basra.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
5 Civilians Injured in 6th Explosion in Baghdad (Voices of Iraq)
Five civilians were wounded on Monday in a car bomb explosion in southern Baghdad, the sixth to go off in the capital today amidst celebrations commemorating the Ashuraa Day, a police source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Wanted Man Arrested in Babel (Voices of Iraq)
Police forces on Monday arrested a wanted man in southern Babel province, a police source said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
5 Wounded in Mosul Blast (Voices of Iraq)
Five persons on Monday were wounded in a car bomb blast that targeted an army patrol vehicle in northern Mosul city, according to a local police source.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
4 Civilians Wounded in 4th Baghdad Explosion (Voices of Iraq)
Four civilians on Monday were wounded when an explosive charge went off in downtown Baghdad, the fourth blast to hit the capital today amidst celebrations commemorating the Ashuraa Day.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
More Blasts Rock Baghdad; 4 Wounded (Voices of Iraq)
Four civilians on Monday were injured when an explosive charge went off in eastern Baghdad, the fifth to go off in the capital today amidst celebrations commemorating the Ashuraa Day, according to a security source.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
7 Civilians Killed, Wounded in 3rd Baghdad Blast (Voices of Iraq)
One civilian was killed and six others were wounded in a blast that ripped through Baghdad’s eastern area of Zayouna, the third explosion to hit the capital today.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
8 Suspects Arrested in Babel (Voices of Iraq)
Eight persons were captured with arms in their possession in northern Babel province, a local police source said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
2 Explosions Wound 8 Near Rasheed Camp (Voices of Iraq)
Eight persons on Monday were wounded when two explosive charges detonated near Rasheed Camp in southeastern Baghdad, according to an Iraqi police source.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Over 100 AQI Leaders Head to Baladroz (Voices of Iraq)
More than 100 al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders have fled towards Baladroz district in the southwest of Baaquba city, an official intelligence source from Diala said on Sunday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 12 hours ago
 
Paris Club Cancels $ 45 Billion of Iraq's Debt (Azzaman)
The Paris Club canceled 45 billion dollars of debt owed by Iraq, as per the agreements signed between Iraq and the Paris Club countries which permitted to cancel these funds from the debt owed by Iraq, amounting to 52 billion dollars, according to...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Strategic Agreement Has Mimimal Impact on Most Iraq Operations (American Forces Press Service)
The new strategic agreement in Iraq is having minimal impact on troops operating in provinces already under Iraqi control when it took effect Jan. 1, the commander of the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team told Pentagon reporters today.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Obama Chooses New US Spy Boss (Sky News)
The choice completes one of the last major nominations for the incoming administration, which takes over from President Bush on January 20.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Iraq Oil Sales Rose 49% to $60.9 Billion Last Year, U.S. Says (Bloomberg)
Iraq, holder of the world’s third- largest crude reserves, boosted income from oil sales by 49 percent last year as crude prices rose to a record in July, according to the U.S. State Department.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
America Losing on the Battlefield of Mind (Khaleej Times)
When you fly to Guantanamo, the United States government insists you carry your passport, as though you’re going to a foreign country.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Guards In Court Over Iraq Deaths (Sky News)
Seventeen people were killed in the shoot-out in Baghdad's Nisoor Square in September 2007. The Iraqi government has accused the guards, who worked for the private security company Blackwater, of firing indiscriminately at innocent people.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
The Ponzi Scheme Presidency (Middle East Online)
The Bush administration's Global War on Terror and its subsidiary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have, in effect, been a giant Ponzi scheme. At a cost of nearly one trillion taxpayer dollars to date, Bush's mad 'global war' simply sucked needed money...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Time to Seize the Election Mood in Iraq (Gulf News)
The underlying struggle in Iraqi politics is to shape the emerging constitution in a way that suits the political parties' aims and desires to get and retain power. The broad theoretical discussions about achieving representational democracy are...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Israel's Looming Catastrophe (Middle East Online)
For the past three decades, Israel has charted a course that invites its own destruction by relying on two risky propositions: first, that it could extend its security perimeter beyond the reach of a devastating missile attack, and second, that it...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 13 hours ago
 
Turkey, Iran Pound Kurdish Rebels in Iraq (Middle East Online)
Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
The Ministry of Trade is Distributing the Ration Card for 2009 (Iraq Directory)
The Ministry of Commerce had issued instructions to the provisioning branches in Baghdad and other provinces to start distributing new ration cards from next Monday, 12th, Jan 2009 until February 12.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
The Ministry of Oil is Reducing the Prices of Black Oil to 250 Thousand Dinars Per Ton (Iraq Directory)
The Ministry of Oil decided to reduce the prices of black oil to private, mixed and the public sectors from 350 to 250 thousand dinars per ton.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Iraqi Expatriate Professionals Back in Iraq for the First Conference on Iraq's Capacities and Expertise (United Nations)
Under the banner of the Iraqi capacities and expertise, the Iraqi Government held a two day conference, 22-23 December 2008, at Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad. The Conference, titled the First Global Conference for Iraqi Expatriate Capacities and...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Iraq Earns $60 Billion from 2008 Crude Exports (Reuters)
Iraq earned about $60 billion from average crude oil sales of 1.85 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2008, a top Iraqi oil official said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Unsworth Novel Looks at Earlier Rivalry over Iraq (Reuters)
Imperial ambition, imminent war and the rush to secure resources are the main themes of a new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth set in the pre-World War One region of the Ottoman empire that is now Iraq.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Former PM Blames US for Foisting Democracy on Iraq (Reuters)
Despite repeated warnings, U.S. officials blindly foisted a Western-style democracy on Iraq, helping plunge it into sectarian bloodshed and a political morass, a former U.S.-installed prime minister said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
US Opens New Iraq Embassy, Moves to Normalise Ties (Reuters)
The United States opened its new embassy building in Baghdad on Monday, a step meant to symbolise its transition from occupying power to an ally of a sovereign Iraqi government.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Budget Cuts Threaten IDP Housing Projects (IRIN)
Lack of government funds could force the Ministry of Displacement and Migration to postpone until 2010 some housing projects designed to ease internal displacement, an official told IRIN on 4 January.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
More Iraqis Head for Germany (German Press Agency (DPA))
The growing persecution of religious minorities in Iraq has led to a steep rise in the number of Iraqis seeking refuge in Germany, official figures showed.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Iraq Pledges Security Forces Ready to Defend Country (AFP)
Iraqi officials insisted on Sunday that the fledgling security forces are ready to defend the country even as a suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and injured dozens in northern Baghdad.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
Bush Medals for Iraq War Allies (Aljazeera)
George Bush is to give the highest US civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to three world leaders who have been among his closest international allies, particularly in the Iraq war.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
US Opens World's Largest Foreign Mission in Iraq (Christian Science Monitor)
Just inside the gateway of the new United States Embassy in Baghdad, a US Army lieutenant colonel acted as the diplomatic equivalent of a Wal-Mart greeter, welcoming guests Monday afternoon to the dedication ceremony for the largest – and most...
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 14 hours ago
 
MPs Should Participate in Monitoring Detainees’ Voting – Lawmaker (Voices of Iraq)
A Sunni lawmaker on Monday called on Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to allow Parliament, local council members, and civil society organizations to monitor the voting process inside Iraqi and U.S. jails.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Iraq Signs $70 Million Pratt & Whitney Power Deal (Reuters)
Iraq has signed a $70 million agreement to buy power generating turbines from the U.S. engineering firm Pratt & Whitney, part of United Technologies Corp, the Iraqi electricity ministry said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Crocker Says U.S. to Abide by Security Agreement (Voices of Iraq)
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Monday said that the U.S. will abide by the security pact and will help the Iraqi forces in performing its military and security duties.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Talabani Says U.S. Embassy Building Expresses Amity (Voices of Iraq)
Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani on Monday said that the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is an “expression of amity between the two countries.”
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
New U.S. Embassy in Green Zone Opened (Voices of Iraq)
A ceremony was held on Monday to mark the inauguration of the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone with the participation of Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Gulf Arabs Invest Heavily in Kurdish North (Azzaman)
Arab investors from oil-rich Gulf countries are investing heavily in the Kurdish north, according to Hirish Mohammed.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
U.S. Envoy, Top Commander Condemn Baghdad Bombings (Voices of Iraq)
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker and Top Commander General Ray Odierno have strongly denounced the bombings that ripped through Baghdad’s cities of Yusifiyah and al Kadhimiyah.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Soon: French Parliamentary Delegation in Kurdistan (Voices of Iraq)
A French parliamentary delegation will soon arrive in Iraq’s Kurdistan region to boost bilateral ties between the two countries, a representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in France said on Monday.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Iraq Bid to Attract More International Oil Companies (Reuters)
Iraq holds the world's third-largest oil reserves and needs billions of dollars of investment to overhaul infrastructure and boost oil and gas output after years of sanctions and war.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
New U.S. Embassy Opens in Baghdad Green Zone (International Herald Tribune)
Iraqi and American officials presided over a dedication ceremony for the sprawling new U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Monday, declaring the start of a new era for relations between the two countries.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Trade Between Iraq, Iran Hits $3b in 9 Months (Iran Daily)
The Secretary of Iran-Iraq economic development headquarter announced that the trade exchange level between the two countries have reached $3 billion in the first nine months of 2008.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 15 hours ago
 
Building Bridges in Baghdad (Khaleej Times)
Samarra’s name is derived from an Arabic phrase meaning “a joy for all to see.” But joy, or even basic peace, remains a scarce commodity in the city.
iraqupdates.com | Iraq | 1 day ago

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