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  • 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 ...

  • Iraq election candidate killed in suicide bomb attack

    The bomber attacked a guesthouse owned by Younis al-Rammah, who was a candidate in provincial elections beginning today, late on Tuesday in Nineveh. Mr Rammah and four relatives were killed and six others wounded. Candidates are frequent targets for insurgents who aim to disrupt the political process.Two suicide bombers also targeted a Shia mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at ...

  • Iraq bombings kill 13 ahead of vote

    View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Iraqi military vehicles are pictured in front of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on June 18, 2013 following a suicide bombing. A suicide bombing in northern Iraq killed a provincial political ...

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The Thief of Bagdad [DVD]

The Thief of Bagdad [DVD]

There is an innocence to The Thief of Bagdad that is notably unusual in todays theaters. With rare exception, even those movies that are explicitly aimed at children today feel the need to have an ironic edge, proving their coolness with pop culture references and levels ... ...

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  • Syria wont be another Iraq

    David Cameron insisted he had "learned the lessons of Iraq" as world leaders at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland set out an agreed blueprint for the future of Syria. But the British Prime Minister was again warned not to consider arming the Syrian rebels by President Vladimir Putin, who compared them to the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby. Cameron and President Barack Obama persuaded Putin to ...

  • Iraqi Shiites flock to Assads side as sectarian split widens

    Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Dhia Mutasharm, a Shi'ite militia fighter killed in clashes with the Free Syrian Army, during a funeral in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad in this May 6, 2013 file ...

  • 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 ...

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