Mysterious "Saddam Channel" Hits Iraqi TV
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Reputed Backer Says Broadcasts Honoring Ex-Dictator Are for Iraqis and Other Arabs Who "Long for His Rule"
The military says Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher died when his fighter jet was shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War and was never captured or tortured.
Google’s chief executive said his company would create a virtual copy of the collections of Iraq’s National Museum and make the images available online by early 2010.
BAGHDAD — Google is documenting Iraq’s national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. The museum was ransacked in the chaotic aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s ouster in April 2003, and only reopened to visitors early this year. Schmidt, who toured the museum with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill on ...
Federal charges in connection with a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad have been dismissed against Nicholas Slatten.
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden is encouraging Iraq's leaders to resolve differences and agree to legislation allowing a national vote to take place next year.
Iraqi leaders worked to avoid delays to January elections, warning that disagreements could still unravel any deal.
Maj. Rick Radford, the federal police transition team's planning and operations officer, stands with three members of the federal police brigade's leadership.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi politicians pushed ahead Friday with a compromise on a contested election measure, awaiting approval from Kurdish officials on a deal that would increase the number of seats in parliament as a way to mute criticism and allow a vote crucial to U.S. withdrawal plans.
Marines from Task Force Personnel Recovery of the Multi-National Force-West conduct recovery efforts at the crash site of Navy Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher in July.
Iraq's prime minister on Thursday vowed there will be no delay in the withdrawal of U.S. troops despite an Iraqi political dispute that is expected to force a January vote to be postponed.
A top Iraqi official warned Friday "it is too early" to claim a breakthrough in a political crisis over the fragile democracy's election law, all but assuring that a national vote will be pushed past its deadline.
Baghdad - Two politically influential Shiite Muslim preachers on Saturday warned of possible foreign interference in Iraq's coming parliamentary elections. In his sermon for Eid al-Adha prayers, Ammar al-Hakim, the Iranian-educated head of the Islami...
The Iraqis who fall victim to their country's ongoing violence often register as little more than a number in a newscast for most Americans. But one of those recent statistics represented a real loss for many people in Denver. Haiffa Ali arrived there as a refugee in 2007, nervous and hostile to a country that was occupying her own. In less than two years, she was settled in — helping with a ...
Lawsuits, rules that allow the government to shut TV stations that promote violence and other signs of creeping censorship are raising fears of a crackdown on Iraq's often partisan media ahead of an election next year.
Iraq's political factions reached a tentative agreement Thursday on a contested law to organize parliamentary elections next year, potentially pulling the country back from crisis and avoiding another veto that could have delayed the vote for months.