Provides the latest RSS feeds for Iraq News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Iraq Sun.com http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/cat/c31d0aaa23b24a75/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:18 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:18 -0400 30 Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214725667/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214725667/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Feature-Length, Independent Films From CINEQUEST Run on Cloud-Based Portico TV Service Through Friday, June 7th REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/24/13 -- Net2TV Corporation (www.net2television.com) is offering two award-winning movies on its Portico connected-TV service through Friday, June 7. The feature-length films -- "The Conscientious Objector" and "Inside Iraq: the ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214742334/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:57 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214742334/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 judgment that could have an impact on how the British military is able to conduct operations among civilians in the future, the court ruled on Friday that up to 161 deaths should be the subject of hearings modelled upon coroners' inquests.In practice, a series of hearings - possibly amounting to more than 100 - are likely to be held as a result of the judgment, which follows a three-year ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214742473/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:01:04 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214742473/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 The High Court has rejected accusations that the team investigating historic abuse allegations by British soldiers in Iraq lacks independence but said the inquiry "does not fulfill" Britain's responsibilities on human rights ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214740816/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:04 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214740816/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 The British government's response to claims that British troops abused and unlawfully killed civilians in Iraq was inadequate, the High Court has ruled. Lawyers representing 180 Iraqi civilians had called for a full public inquiry in Britain. The court stopped short of ordering such an inquiry, but said there should be a series of further investigations into the allegations. It said ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214736959/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:59 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214736959/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 "Iraq Refinery Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Iraq oil refining industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the Iraq refining sector. It provides all the key trends and analyzes the drivers and restraints of investing ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214735525/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:10:20 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214735525/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Norwegian oil and gas company DNO International said tests from a field in the Kurdish region of Iraq yielded an average flow rate of more than 100,000 bpd. DNO has a majority stake in the Tawke field in the Kurdish region of Iraq alongside Turkish energy company Genel Energy and the Kurdistan Regional Government. DNO said a 72-hour test of from the Tawke field averaged more than 100,000 ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214735380/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:53:21 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214735380/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214733522/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:19:50 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214733522/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East LondonThe Ministry of Defence earlier said the soldier killed is 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Drummer Rigby had a two-year-old son and ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214733532/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 04:50:47 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214733532/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 ONE of the men allegedly behind the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby had to himself be consoled by friends in 2007 after a soldier mate was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London The ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214732692/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:37:32 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214732692/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Opposition MP Nada Jabouri says Sunni grievances on rights abuses and detentions are real However, Syria is not the only reason Iraqis are again talking of the possibility of civil war and even the break up of their country. "The main problems are inside Iraq, the Iraqis themselves, the leaders," says Hana Edward, an Iraqi activist who campaigned against human rights abuses during ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214732315/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:11:52 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214732315/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Sept. 11 , 2001, the country is more secure and fewer U.S. troops are in harm's way, Obama said while speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington. However, he warned: "Now, make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. From Benghazi to Boston, we have been tragically reminded of that truth. But we have to recognize that the ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214731788/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:05:57 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214731788/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 RAMADI, Iraq, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Eight people were killed in separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen kidnapped eight policemen in the western province of Anbar, the police said. In western Iraq, two people were killed in clashes between tribesmen and Iraqi security forces near the city of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, when the tribesmen apparently believed that a police unit ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214730774/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:12:47 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214730774/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Iraq on Friday vowed to take legal action against companies to halt Kurdistan's crude oil sales to Turkey. "Any oil that is taken out of the country and payments not made to the Iraqi people through the central government is considered to be taking Iraq's national wealth," said Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani. "There ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214729784/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 22:49:00 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214729784/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Iraq on Thursday, officials said. Militants attacked an army checkpoint in the town of Taji, killing four soldiers and wounding four others, two police officers said. Another group of militants exchanged fire with military forces and pro-government Sunni militia in the western village of Karma, two other police officers said. Three soldiers were killed and 18 were wounded, including 7 Sunni ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214728190/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:48:32 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214728190/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Ahmadinejad: Iran backs restoration of security in Iraq Iraq-Iran, Politics, 8/26/2011 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that the Iran fully backs restoration of security and progress in Iraq, in a meeting with visiting Iraqi deputy chairman of Iraqi Kurdistan administration Nechirvan Barzani. IRNA reported saying "Given historical and cultural affinities ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214728322/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:32:08 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214728322/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Islam - have brought further opprobrium to practising Muslims. This terrible scourge of child abuse and terrorism within some strains of British Islam is sadly reflective of the broader incapacity of the Muslim community to fully integrate with the general mainstream. British Muslims must disassociate themselves from all variants of imported religious fundamentalism so that far-right ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214723335/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:13:13 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214723335/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the political activist group Code Pink, is removed by security after speaking out against President Barack Obama during his speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University on May 23, 2013 at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C. UPI/Kevin ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214723192/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:32 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214723192/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has sponsored a visit by a delegation of Iraqi police officers for a training course in cooperation with the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs oversaw a three-week training course for 10 Iraqi women officers on criminal investigation and other ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214720054/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:55 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214720054/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD // Attacks in Iraq yesterday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said. It was the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month. Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, security and medical officials said. Near Baquba, also north of the capital, a roadside bomb in a market ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719882/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:48:45 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719882/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 (MENAFN) BP assigned USD2.85 billion to improve Rumaila oilfield located in Iraq during 2013, reported Gulf Daily News citing the head of the joint management committee for the field.Raising the output from Rumaila is very important for the country to be able to increase oil exports to 6 million bpd by 2017.USD2.2 billion was the agreed financial amount for the improvement of Iraq's most ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214720158/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:41:55 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214720158/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 A WIDENING arc of violence across Iraq is raising fears that the country could fracture under the weight of sectarian and political strife. Attacks in the past week stretched from north of Baghdad, the capital, to the normally calm southern city of Basra, killing more than 200 people. The targets included Sunni mosques as well as Shia districts and Iraqi security forces. On May 20th alone, at ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719885/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:36:52 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719885/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Amnesty International reports. Amnesty published its 328-page "State of the World 2013" report, highlighting the rights record of 155 countries and territories. In a forwarding statement, the rights group said the world is "an increasingly dangerous place" where governments are more interested in protecting their borders than the rights of their citizens. On Iraq, the report ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719903/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:36 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214719903/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 BAGHDAD -; Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718301/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:25 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718301/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 (MENAFN) Iraq's oil ministry announced that the country's total oil output reached 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, reported Xinhua News.According to the minister of oil, Abdul Kareem Luaybi, in 2014, Iraq's oil production will rise to 3.4 million bpd.Meanwhile, oil shipments went up to 2.6 million bpd in April, up from 2.4 million bpd in the previous month.Revenues ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718586/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:09 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718586/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 War British Muslims "disown" the Woolwich murderers, and such extremists should be "totally demolished" in UK society - but in order to do that, the UK must change its "illegal" foreign policy, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation Dr. Taj Hargey told ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718307/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:14:41 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214718307/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Iraqi anti-terror police guard a checkpoint in Baghdad, on January 6, 2011. Gunmen have shot dead four Iraqi soldiers, security and medical officials said, the latest attacks in a wave of ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214716978/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:57:01 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214716978/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Three reasons to go Premium! 1. Unlock details of over 3,000 companies 2. Have access to 11,000 oil industry people profiles 3. Full address details of over 5000 ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714080/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:48:25 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714080/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Doha, May 23 (BNA) -- The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Maj.Gen. Hamad Bin Ali Al Attiyah conferred here on Thursday with Iraqi Defence Minister Dr. Saadoun Al-Dulaimi who is now visiting Qatar. They discussed a lot of issues with a special emphasis on the military affairs. A number of senior army officers attend the meeting. The Iraqi Defence Minister arrived in Doha earlier Wednesday ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714081/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:39:26 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714081/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 By Stanley Carvalho ABU DHABI, May 23 (Reuters) - State-owned Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) plans to expand its domestic presence as well as open branches in Lebanon and Turkey to tap growing trade between the countries, the bank's top executive said on Thursday. The bank, set up in 2003, operates as a commercial bank with a virtual monopoly on letters of credit, which are used in ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714082/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:31:56 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214714082/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 A high expert level meeting was held today between the Iraq Delegation led by Mr. Mohanad Salman Al-Sady, Minister of Water Resources of Govt of Republic of Iraq and Senior Officers in The Ministry of Water Resources to workout for finalizing the nitty-gritty's of a future Memorandum of Understanding In The Area Of Water Management to be signed between the Two ... http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214713765/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:23:30 -0400 http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/sid/214713765/scat/c31d0aaa23b24a75