There are many things that come with this blessed month. Exercising self-restraint, remembering the poor, enhancing spiritual activities, spending quality family time, the list goes on. But there is one thing that has come this Ramadhan which isn’t so commendable. As part of this holy month there is always a significant ...

Not an expert at all of course on Iraq BUT I suspect in the long run the Iraq Study Group course will seem like the far wiser road to have taken compared to the Surge. This is mostly forgotten, of course, now but it seems likely to emerge more forcefully ...

Around 5 years ago I collected some photos of the Gulf War aftermath from various sources online and put them all up in a Flickr group. There are 48 pictures currently which you can check by clicking [Here] ...

There is no successful way to conduct or win an occupation. The Surge is not a strategy, it is a tactic in implementing an ongoing plan, which is to maintain an indefinite occupation. So examining the troop levels and tactics in a given month or year do not mean much ...

Debating the surge in Afghanistan, on The Hill. Here are my two cents. When the Bush administration unveiled the Iraq surge and new war strategy, then Senator Barak Obama opposed the plan, arguing it was bound to fail and increase the violence. He was proven wrong. A few years later, President ...

    the Iraqi and Iranian boredr   Swiss man became a billionaire from Taq Taq Oil Field in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (Rozhnamay Rozhnama) Oil, the black gold that is the milestone source of budget in Iraq, has become an easy way to get rich immeasurably not only for politicians, but also for ...

By: Ali Rawaf Though they make about a quarter of the newly elected parliament, their voices are unheard and ambitions of leadership remain unseen.Their role doesn't go beyond the fulfillment of the electoral quota. Today, however, one female politician spoke out. Safiya al-Suhail sent a letter to President Talabani asking him if he was "only a ...

Genocide in a democratic countryIn more than three decades, 40,000 Kurdish people have been killed, 5,000 villages have been forced to evacuate, and 10,000 people have been imprisoned in Turkey, a democratic country that many believe deserves to be a member of the EU. Kurds have been struggling to get ...

Iraqi Politicians Who Are Doing Nothing Except Disagreeing each Other and Personal Fighting Iraqis are suffering from deadly explosions           Who Are Responsible for the Mess in Iraq?Now Iraq undergoes very difficult time, uncertain destiny, and heading in unknown direction. Political and security situation can easily turn to violence, and ...

Last week Human Rights Watch released a report on the female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan, in their report, Human Rights Watch does not fully explain in which part of the region they conducted their interviews which I mean they do not identify the level of education, development, and intellectuality ...

In al-Dora, a man was killed by a bomb that had been planted in his car, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported. Two bystanders were injured in the blast. ...

Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, ...

... the strength that sometimes comes with that,” Blair said. And a decision like the surge in Iraq — I'm not sure many people had the strength to do that. “

A local man named John O'Connell expressed the sentiment of several others when, clutching his book under his arm, he explained: "I know Iraq is going to be ...

As Obama talked about the great loss of life and resources that nearly a decade of war in Iraq brought, a line early in his speech stood out: "The Americans ...

It is somehow fitting that last Wednesday, the date the Iraq operation officially ended, was also publication day for a man whose own ...

News reports suggesting his visit was about the transfer of heavy combat equipment from Iraq via Turkey were "simply false and completely without merit," he ...

Aziz surrendered to US forces about a month after they invaded Iraq in 2003. The 74-year-old was convicted of ordering the 1992 execution of merchants ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A Baghdad military headquarters has been the scene of the latest violence in Iraq. Militants set off a car bomb outside the building ...

The former head of the army has accused Tony Blair of lacking "the moral courage" to stand up to Gordon Brown over defence spending in Iraq. ...