Iraq may increase oil supply to India by 30 percent Minister

Iraq is likely to increase oil supply to India by around 30 percent as shipments from regional rival Iran drop following sanctions from the US and European countries, a senior Iraqi minister has said. "India has requested 80,000 barrels per day of additional crude oil supply. We will increase the supply depending on the availability," Iraq's Minister of Water Resources Mohanad Salman Alwan ...

Sunni grievances drive spike in deadly Iraq violence

Sunnis and the Shiite authorities they accuse of marginalizing their community is driving a deadly spike in violence, but will stop short of all-out conflict for now, experts say. Attacks including bombings that ripped through worshippers in mosques and cut down shoppers in markets killed over 430 people ...

9 people killed 36 wounded in Iraqs violence

Nine people were killed and 36 wounded in bombings and shootings in northern and central Iraq on Sunday, the police said.In one attack, two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 30 others wounded in two explosions near the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.The first one occurred inside an under-construction house in the town of Shora near Mosul, a local police ...

Video Vietnam vet walks for those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan

In the town of Murphys, Calif., a Vietnam veteran walks to raise money for the most recent generation of veterans -- those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Carter Evans ...

The threat of sectarian war in Iraq looms larger

Fariborz Saremi Sectarian tensions in Iraq are reaching a crisis point. A series of bombings in Sunni-dominated areas of Baghdad and its surroundings which resulted in over 700 hundred deaths in April, followed by 200 more deaths since Friday May 17, are indicative of the worsening security ...