The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq's growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations. In a stark indication of the changing...
Private companies will be roped in for the two mega projects The projects will cost Rs.48.5 crores VIJAYAWADA: Krishna district is all set to take a big leap on the tourism front. Things seem to be finally looking up for...
Gulf News Lost in the shuffle in recent weeks, between Americans watching their economy take a nosedive and watching the debates in one of the most pivotal presidential elections in memory, was the news from Iraq - a country...
An Iraqi lawmaker belonging to the anti-American party of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was assassinated Thursday by a bomb that exploded as the politician's motorcade passed near a Baghdad military checkpoint.
BAGHDAD – Market by market, square by square, the walls are beginning to come down. The miles of hulking blast walls, ugly but effective, were installed as a central feature of the surge of U.S. troops to stop neighbors from...
A US GI was killed on Tuesday in Mosul while answering a distress call Assailants killed Sadrist parliamentarian Salih al-`Ukayli with a roadside bomb near Sadr City in East Baghdad. Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that members of...
The U.S army on Thursday announced its forces donated an $8.5 million drought relief package as a gift for Eid to the people of Salah Ad Din, Diyala, Kirkuk and Ninewa Provinces to provide emergency relief to these...
As the female suicide bombing in Diyala the other day demonstrates, the more Iraqi government and security forces take charge and the US takes a back seat to counterinsurgency, the emphasis on offense is going to increasingly...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2008 – Coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists during operations today, further dismantling al-Qaida in Iraq's network in and around Mosul, military officials reported. South of Mosul, coalition...
An Iraqi member of Parliament from Moktada al-Sadr's political movement was killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Thursday. The attack prompted supporters of Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric, to hold the United States...