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Iraqi Airways is waiting for the delivery of 40 Boeing aircraft. Above, Boeing 737 fuselage sections on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in the US. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News Hadeel al Sayegh Iraq’s national carrier is planning to re-emerge as a major regional airline, with the first of 40 Boeing aircraft set to [...]

ISTANBUL, Turkey -The prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region is visiting Turkey – his first trip there since taking office in March. The visit is expected to build on the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Iraq’s Kurds. That process is being enhanced by deepening crises in Iraq and and mutual neighbor Syria. Political analysts [...]

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took place at a market where young men buy and sell pigeons in Husseiniya, a poor Shiite neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad. This type of [...]

Fri May 18, 2012 9:21am EDT * Southern exports slip to 1.94 mbpd so far in May * Production reduced by technical problem, now fixed * Iraq still hoping to sustain April’s record export rate By Alex Lawler and Peg Mackey LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) – Iraq’s oil exports from its southern ports have slipped [...]

By Jonathon Burch ANKARA | Fri May 18, 2012 10:56am EDT ANKARA (Reuters) – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal from [...]

WASHINGTON — The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, dedicated in 1921 and guarded around the clock, has long been among the most visited sites in the nation’s capital. It would be joined by a Tomb of Remembrance for the unidentified remains of fallen troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and [...]

By Salam Faraj (AFP) – 13 hours ago  HILLA, Iraq — Babylon’s Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but heritage appears to be no match for Iraq’s booming oil industry in a dispute over a new pipeline. As Baghdad is working to get UNESCO to list Babylon as a [...]

Iraq will increase its daily exports of Basrah Light crude from the Persian Gulf by 20 percent in the second half of May from a month earlier, a loading program obtained by Bloomberg News showed. The Gulf state will ship 26 cargoes from the Basrah Oil Terminal, seven more than a month earlier, the plan [...]

On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war. In a Las Vegas [...]

BAGHDAD | Thu May 17, 2012 7:35am EDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq has summoned Ankara’s ambassador in Baghdad to protest the behavior of two Turkish diplomats, the latest episode in a drawn-out public row between the neighbors. An official from Iraq’s foreign ministry met Turkey’s ambassador, Younis Demirer, to complain about the Turkish diplomats in [...]

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The policy change announced earlier this year is being tested at nine brigades, including one at Fort [...]

Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs, as a politically charged trial against the vice president began. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was in Turkey but faced trial in absentia, has been accused of playing a role in 150 bombings, assassinations [...]

Guards implicate Iraq’s fugitive VP BAGHDAD – Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader began. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who was in Turkey but faced trial in absentia, has denied all [...]

Iraq will soon sign a $7 billion agreement with South Korea’s Hanwah Engineering Construction Corp. to build 100,000 housing units in the country, the chairman of Iraq’s National Investment Commission said. “The signing will be final and the work will start after that, the value of the deal is more than $7 billion,” said Sami al-Araji in [...]

On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war. In a Las Vegas [...]

The follow is an excerpt from Gretchen Berg’s new book Iraq in My Shoe: Misadventure of a Soldier in Fashion. — My coworker Adam, who was new enough he hadn’t yet received a nickname, loaded his lone backpack into the back of the SUV along with my hockey bags and suitcases. We climbed into a [...]

Resource Investing News One of the world’s largest oil producers, ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), has found itself in the middle of a political minefield as it attempts to take advantage of one of the largest oil plays in the Middle Eastern crude powerhouse of Iraq. In October 2011, ExxonMobil signed production sharing contracts for six blocks covering 848,000 [...]

(BAGHDAD) — The terror trial of Iraq’s fugitive vice president accused of running death squads started Tuesday in Baghdad with witnesses testifying how their relatives were killed in attacks that the authorities have linked to the country’s top Sunni official. Tariq al-Hashemi was not in court for the opening of the proceedings that were already [...]

A clandestine jail and alleged torture site under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki continues to operate more than a year after the government ordered it shut down, Human Rights Watch claims in a report being released Tuesday. Massive roundups of suspected loyalists of late leader Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party were conducted in October [...]

In a Las Vegas recording studio, Dunson rapped about his life: “What’s wrong with me? Got PTSD. These pills ain’t working, man, I still can’t think.” One in six Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder in 2011, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Some committed suicide. Others are receiving mental [...]

Mon May 14, 2012 5:46pm BST * Project expected to raise extraction rates * Iraq plans maintenance at Basra facility By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq, May 14 (Reuters) – Iraq has invited international consultancy firms to tender for a contract to help manage its multi billion-dollar oilfield water injection projects, a senior oil official said [...]

Greg Broseus joined the Ohio National Guard in 2002 to help pay for college. He wound up spending all of 2005 in Iraq as a gunner on a convoy whose mission was to search for roadside bombs. For his service, he received 11 medals. But now he wants to give them all back. Related Chicago’s [...]

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As for voting in this presidential election: “I haven’t had that spark to get out and register.” The Pentagon counts more than 6,300 American dead and 33,000 wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Rand Corp study estimates that as many as 300,000 post-9/11 veterans suffer from PTSD or major depression, and about 320,000 [...]

BAGHDAD, May 14 (UPI) — Concerns about a massive security crisis in Iraq in the wake of the U.S. troop withdrawal never materialized, a U.N. official said. Martin Kobler, head of the U.N. mission in Iraq and the U.N. secretary-general’s special envoy to the country, said there were serious concerns about civil war erupting in [...]

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press – 2 days ago  BABYLON, Iraq (AP) — Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death. But dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological site of Babylon and ravaged by modern-day sectarian fighting, Iraqi officials are trying to bring back [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) — A pair of bombings killed four people Sunday in attacks targeting Iraq’s security forces, officials said, while the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad maintained it will continue training Iraqi police despite cutbacks to the program. The first bomb exploded near a security patrol in the western city of Ramadi, killing one policeman and [...]

By Margot Roosevelt COLUMBIA, South Carolina | Sun May 13, 2012 3:01am EDT COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show “drooling over firearms,” as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, [...]

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press – 12 hours ago  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s lawmakers have hightailed it out of town for a six-week vacation without following through on promises to cancel a pricey perk for free armored cars that they approved for themselves in the annual budget. It is the sort of move that is [...]

Print E-mail By BUSHRA JUHI The Associated Press BAGHDAD — A pair of bombings killed four people Sunday in attacks targeting Iraq’s security forces, officials said, while the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad maintained it will continue training Iraqi police despite cutbacks to the program. People inspect the scene after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-rigged [...]

BABYLON, Iraq — Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death. But dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological site of Babylon and ravaged by modern-day sectarian fighting, Iraqi officials are trying to bring back normalcy by reviving a spring cultural festival that drew hundreds [...]

RICHMOND, Calif. — Firing its 16-inch guns in the Arabian Sea, the U.S.S. Iowa shuddered. As the sky turned orange, a blast of heat from the massive guns washed over the battleship. This was the Iowa of the late 1980s, at the end of its active duty as it escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers from [...]

Associated Press Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Miller knew that deserting his post was a serious crime. But, by then, he had a lot more on his mind and heart than his job. Back in 2003-2004, while Miller was deployed as a cavalry scout in Afghanistan, his father died, his mother was diagnosed with cancer, and [...]

BASRA, Iraq | Sat May 12, 2012 12:47pm EDT BASRA, Iraq May 12 (Reuters) – Iraq has issued a tender for the building of a breakwater in the Gulf, the country’s state port company said on Saturday, the first stage of construction in a giant $6 billion port scheme shelved under former dictator Saddam Hussein. [...]

BAGHDAD –  Iraq’s lawmakers have hightailed it out of town for a six-week vacation without following through on promises to cancel a pricey perk for free armored cars that they approved for themselves in the annual budget. It is the sort of move that is fueling resentments among the struggling Iraqi public, many of whom [...]

An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway’s worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to “go to hell” in a rare outburst Friday that briefly interrupted the terror trial of Anders Behring Breivik. The incident was the first display of anger inside the normally subdued court room [...]

(AFP) – 2 hours ago  ANKARA — Iraq’s Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, has undergone “routine” medical checks in Turkey, his office said on Friday. Hashemi, who is the subject of a Red Notice issued by the international police agency Interpol, travelled [...]

Baghdad (CNN) — An Iraqi court has cleared a Lebanese militant once held by U.S. forces in the deaths of five U.S. soldiers, saying there wasn’t enough evidence against him, an official with Iraq’s judicial council told CNN. Ali Mussa Daqduq’s case will be automatically appealed and he will remain in custody until a decision [...]

BABYLON, Iraq –  Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death. But dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological site of Babylon and ravaged by modern-day sectarian fighting, Iraqi officials are trying to bring back normalcy by reviving a spring cultural festival that drew hundreds [...]

Iraq, seeking to more than double oil output by 2015, is poised to overtake Iran as OPEC’s second- largest producer by the end of the year as sanctions hobble crude production in its Persian Gulf neighbor. Iraq is pumping at the highest rate since Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979, supported by foreign investors such [...]

View full sizeCourtesy PhotoKeith Kamphuis with Iraqi children during one of the many visits to villages he made during the war. GRAND RAPIDS, MI — No stranger to running, Keith Kamphuis will be taking the challenge of participating in the Fifth Third River Bank Run 10K on Saturday. What he’ll be wearing may look a [...]

Iraq raised the official selling prices of its Basrah Light and Kirkuk crudes for June delivery to Europe and reduced the differential for Asian buyers, the state marketing agency said. Basrah Light was set at a discount of $4.50 a barrel to Dated Brent, compared with a discount of $6.10 for this month, according to [...]

Iraq’s Kayar Group and Jawaharat Alrawabi companies signed a $249 million contract to build 3,827 housing units in the southern region of Diwaniya, said, Ahmed Hisham, president of the Diwaniya Investment Commission. “We are also styuding designs for other companies to build 15,000 residential units,” Hisham said in a telephone interview today. “Some of these [...]

Thu May 10, 2012 9:07am EDT * Company targeted by bomb attacks and extortion threats * Mosul is regional hub for al Qaeda affiliates By Jamal al-Badrani MOSUL, Iraq, May 10 (Reuters) – Mobile phone operator Asiacell has closed its offices in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an al Qaeda stronghold, after attacks and threats [...]

BAGHDAD — The terror trial against Iraq’s fugitive vice president has been postponed for a second time, with his lawyers demanding a special court to hear the case that he says was brought by political enemies. Tariq al-Hashemi’s legal team said Thursday it is still waiting to hear whether Iraq’s Supreme Court will agree to [...]

BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) — Iraq says its oil exports rose to 2.5 million barrels per day in April, which it aims to double by 2015. But Baghdad’s objective of become a top-line producer, challenging Saudi Arabia, remains in jeopardy because of political feuding and a lack of infrastructure. In March, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [...]

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It also signals the rise of Iraq as a modern petro-state, with all the power and problems that enormous oil wealth brings. “Over the next five to seven years, Iraq could be supplying nearly half of the incremental growth in world oil demand,” said Larry Goldstein, director of the nonprofit Energy Policy Research Foundation. The [...]