BAGHDAD: At least 28 people were killed in a triple bombing in a Baghdad market on Monday. At the same time dozens are left wounded including women and children. The attackers detonated a car bomb in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, then minutes later a suicide bomber ran into the resulting melee an ...
The proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact removes language authorizing Iraq to ask U.S. soldiers to stay beyond 2011 and bans cross-border attacks from Iraqi soil, according to a copy of the draft obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The latest draft, sent Thursday to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, ...
Negli Stati Uniti la comunicazione di Barack Obama, e la mole di finanziamenti che l’hanno sostenuta, gli hanno permesso di vincere le elezioni, anche innalzando (lievemente) il numero dei votanti. Nel resto del mondo, la sua figura ha suscitato entusiasmi ai limiti del fanatismo delirante. Lo stess ...
Ce documentaire retrace la vie d’une famille juive en Irak. Pour ce faire, le cinéaste Joe Balass utilise des photographies de sa famille et des archives filmiques datant de 1920 à 1970. Ces documents d’archives sont pour la première fois montrés devant un large public. Joe Balass nous montre une au ...
By Tina Susman in Baghdad "What's it like there?" It's the question we get asked most often by people who haven't been to Baghdad, followed closely by, "Do you live in the Green Zone?" The answer to that one: No. The answer to the first is more difficult. Baghdad, like any huge city, is a porridge o ...
This photo from TimesOnline in the UK of a puppy sleeping under a soldier’s equipment in Iraq really touched me and I wanted to share it with you. It’s nice to know that our GI’s are also looking out for the dogs of Iraq.
Why Gay Marriage was defeated in California: Well for one thing people are obviously still homophobic on a mass scale. Second, despite the fact pretty much every tv show has a lesbian / BI chick on it, the gay community that wants gay marriage is a very small minority. Bones last night joined the pa ...
Few Americans stand to be as directly affected by the presidential race as the military forces deployed to Iraq, and while the military generally frowns on troops discussing politics publicly, it was impossible to avoid the topic early today as troops in Baghdad awoke to the news that Barack Obama h ...
- John Leicester, AP PARIS – Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president unleashed a global tide of admiration, hopes for change and even renewed love for the United States on Wednesday. The president of Kenya declared a public holiday in Obama’s honor, and people across Africa stayed ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Many in Iraq said Wednesday they don’t expect an immediate shift in U.S. policy toward their country when Barack Obama takes over as the new U.S. president, despite his calls for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops within 16 months. But top Iraqi officials said they do recognize the ...
