Celebratory gunfire erupted across the capital Sunday when Iraq’s soccer team won the Asian Cup, in a 1-0 shutout against three-time champions Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. military closes detention camp in Iraq
The U.S. military closed its detention facility in southern Iraq on Thursday after a plane carried the last remaining prisoners to another facility in Baghdad.
Suicide car bombing kills 7 in Iraq
A suicide car bombing struck a police checkpoint in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, killing at least seven people, an Interior Ministry official said.
Life imitates art as gunmen attack crew of Afghan war movie
When David Whitney traveled to Pakistan to shoot his film about a man forced to flee Afghanistan after falling foul of the Taliban he didn’t expect fiction to turn into reality. But that’s exactly what happened three weeks into shooting political thriller “Kandahar Break” in late 2008
The Case for Leaving Iraq Now
Although every day in Iraq repeats the endless spiral of bombs in crowded bazaars and mosques — each fueling demands for retribution — things are slowly getting better. Last month, the number of violent deaths in Iraq fell to 275, down from 437 in June.
Blair to be called before UK inquiry to Iraq war
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called before an inquiry into the country’s role in the Iraq war, its chairman said during the opening Thursday. John Chilcot told media he would not “offer a list of witnesses” but that “key decision-makers in the key phases of the Iraq affair” would be called. “You can work out for yourself who some of them will be, but apart from the former prime minister [Tony Blair] — who it’s obvious we must see — I don’t want to give a longer list today.” Blair’s appearance before the inquiry, whenever it happens, will be of huge interest to the British public and media
Brown defends Afghanistan strategy in face of British losses
Britain’s prime minister on Saturday grieved over the losses of 15 British troops over 10 days in Afghanistan, but underscored that preventing terror from reaching the UK streets was the top goal. “The last 10 days have been extraordinarily difficult
With U.S. Withdrawal, Iraq Takes Ownership of Its War
The decision to pull U.S.
Historic moment in Iraq marked by little fanfare, mixed feelings
Tuesday marks the long-anticipated deadline for American troops to pull out of Iraqi towns and cities, but on Monday, there will be no long lines of tanks rolling out of Baghdad or thousands of troops marching out of other cities.
Donald Rumsfeld in Repose
For a few months after his departure as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld occupied a suite of government-provided transition offices in a high-rise building in Rosslyn, Virginia, up the Potomac River a short way from the Pentagon.