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  • Four killed 21 injured Iraq attacks

    At least four people were killed and 21 wounded in separate incidents of shooting and bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, the police said. Three people were killed and 15 injured in a roadside bomb explosion at a popular football field at a village near Maqdadiyah city, some 100 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a local police source. In another incident, an Iraqi army colonel was shot dead ...

  • UK Soldier Deaths Court Ruling Will Harm Combat Missions

    LONDON The British government warned on Wednesday that future combat operations could become more difficult after a court ruled that families of three soldiers killed in Iraq could sue the military for failing to protect troops on active duty. Britain's Supreme Court upheld the claim of relatives that the Human Rights Act applied to troops serving in battle abroad, and rejected the ...

  • War against Iraq neither for peace nor democracy

    The success of the U.S. in its recent wars has been insignificant. This was the case for war against Iraq, which was never found: chemical weapons to legitimize that ...

  • Iraq to boost output by 45 by 2014-end

    Thamir Ghadhban, energy adviser to Iraq's prime minister has said the government aims to boost oil production by nearly 45% by the end of 2014, and that Baghdad had lost confidence in Kurdistan after the region stopped exporting oil through the federal pipeline system, Reuters has reported. Baghdad's ambitious 4.5 million barrels per day (b/d) target relies on new oil pumped from ...

  • Iraqi Shiite fighters flock to Assad’s side

    Bashar Assad but against them. Dressed in jeans, their hair cropped short, the 12 men awaiting their flight are Iraqi Shiites, among hundreds heading for what they see as a struggle to defend fellow Syrian Shiites and their holy sites from the ...

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Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac)

Uncompromising French director Robert Bresson's "Lancelot of the Lake" achieves the exact opposite effect of Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur." Instead of enshrining the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, it dethrones them by revealing Arthur as a weak, ineffectual leader and the Knights as a group of jealous, bickering men who failed to live up to the legends prescribed t ... ...

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  • Iraq Chevron Total expand Kurdish drilling

    Iraq's Kurds have consolidated their growing energy sector with Chevron Corp. securing a third exploration block in the semiautonomous northern region that increasingly operates as a de facto independent state and France's Total buying a majority stake in ...

  • Iraqi Car Bombs Heightens Fears of Sectarian War

    Impunity Watch Reporter, Middle East BAGHDAD, Iraq-May 2013, themost violent time period in Iraq since 2008, has activists fearing a pending sectarian war. The country has recently been plagued with car bombings and shootings causing injury, death, and destruction with nearly two thousand people killed since ...

  • Is America’s Iraq Imploding

    In March 2013, America's invasion of Iraq reached its 10th anniversary. After a decade of nation building, Iraq is falling apart. In April 2013, deadly clashes between government forces and demonstrators in the city of Hawija set off a chain reaction of retaliatory attacks across Iraq. The situation now threatens to plunge the country into the kind of war it experienced in the midst of the ...

  • Soldiers families can sue Ministry of Defence supreme court rules

    Defence secretary Philip Hammond says the decision could leave operational decisions in combat zones open to 'the uncertainty of litigation'. Photograph: ...

  • Espionage writer Vince Flynn dies books beloved from OGaras to Baghdad

    < 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Surrounded by dozens of friends and family, bestselling author and St. Paul favorite Vince Flynn died early Wednesday. He was 47. Flynn died of prostate cancer at United Hospital, according to friend Kathy Schneeman, writing on the ...

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