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  • Ban Ki-moon recommends end to Iraq sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS // The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, yesterday recommended moving a step closer to ending all of the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq more than two decades ago after the country's former leader, Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait in 1990. Despite the fall of Saddam in 2003 after an invasion led by the United States, the UN has not fully lifted the sanctions. ...

  • Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq delighted at court ruling

    Relatives of the soldiers killed in Iraq recognise "it's going to be a long hard road" but say they got "the right result" after winning a fight for the right to sue the MoD for ...

  • Indian FM Begins Visit to Iraq Oil Among Priorities

    New Delhi, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, begins a two-day visit to Iraq aimed at reviving bilateral relations and negotiate greater purchases of oil to the Arab nation, currently its second largest supplier. The Indian foreign minister is scheduled to meet with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshiyar Zebari, and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, to discuss mutual ...

  • Family delight at Iraq court ruling

    The Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - ruled that damages claims could be launched under legislation covering negligence and human rights.Lawyers representing relatives said the ruling meant the Ministry of Defence owed a duty of care to properly equip servicemen and women who went to war.But Defence ...

  • Head of United Iraq party murdered on eve of elections

    An Iraqi policeman casts his ballot in Ramadi on June 17, 2013 as security forces vote in provincial polls ahead of the rest of Iraqis in the Anbar province. Iraq held provincial elections in April except in six provinces, including Anbar and Nineveh, where polls were delayed because authorities said security could not be guaranteed (Azhar Shallal / AFP) A suicide bombing in northern Iraq on ...

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  • Iraqi officials say suicide bomber kills politician 4 relatives in northern Ninevah province

    BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say a suicide attack has killed a local political leader and four of his relatives in northern Iraq. A police officer said Wednesday that a suicide bomber blew himself up late the previous night inside Younis al-Rammah's guesthouse in the northern province of Ninevah. He says al-Rammah and four relatives were killed and six others wounded. The slain leader headed ...

  • Assad forces build up for Aleppo offensive

    Forces loyal to Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad are reported to be tightening a cordon around the northern city of Aleppo, once the country's commercial heart, in a major offensive against rebels who hold 60 percent of the ...

  • Member of Iraqi Parliament killed in terrorist attack

    CAIRO, June 19. /ITAR-TASS /. In the bomb attack, which took place today in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, five people were killed. According to police spokesperson, the victims are one of the leaders of Iraqi National Alliance (INA) and his four brothers. Another six members of the same family were injured. According to reports, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the garden of the ...

  • Five dead in Iraq suicide bomb ahead of vote

    Iraq on Wednesday killed the leader of a provincial political party and four relatives, officials said, on the eve of elections his bloc was to participate in.Yunus al-Ramah, head of the United Iraq party, had been hosting a social gathering at his home in the town of Al-Hadhr, ...

  • Iraq’s Kurds to Export Oil by New Pipeline ‘Very Soon’

    Iraq 's Kurds will start exporting crude by pipeline "very soon" after the completion of a new link to the Turkish border by the end of September, the Kurdistan Regional Government Natural Resources Minister said. The pipeline to Fishkabour near the frontier ...

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