Starting from a secret department in North Carolina, the company before known like Blackwater it assumed a more important paper in the program of counter-terrorism of Washington: the use of airplanes operated by remote control to kill leaders of Al Qaeda, according to government’s authorities and current and old employees of the company.
The operations of [...]

The United Kingdom has announced that, it will be pulling out its forces currently operating in Iraq. The decision comes in the wake of a resolution that did not get the approval of the Iraqi government, wherein, British forces were given permission to stay and conduct operations, to protect the Iraqi oil platforms. British soldiers [...]

Modern Iraq is all about oil. It exists for and because of it. Its turmoil and troubles are due to it. Wars have been waged on the country’s soil because of the black gold mine that lies under the ground. Iraq has ‘one of the world’s great hydrocarbon preserves,’ with proven oil reserves of 115 [...]

The sorry state of its facilities, a decade of international embargo, successive wars, and the alarming state of its finances today forced Iraq to reopen its oil deposits to foreign capital and expertise.
The decision of the government of Nouri al-Maliki to auction ‘service contracts’ for the operation of Iraq’s six largest oil fields and two [...]

US soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that manifests in various illnesses such as headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, and chronic pain. Just as they heavily depended on their high-powered ammunition, so are they heavily dependent on prescription pills such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety medication, sleeping pills, and painkillers. 
It has been found that [...]

Iraq has been showing signs of sure recovery from the devastations of war. After the US nearly flattened some parts of the country with the much criticized ‘US invasion to liberate Iraq,’ American investors now attempt to create a much needed economic crust, that of Iraq’s private sector. This is probably what is most needed [...]

A month ago, the International Commission of Jurists urged the White House to change the term ‘War on Terror’ because it “justifies the violations of humanitarian law and human rights.” Some sectors of the army had also requested a change of title because it gathers under a single name all the policies that deal with [...]

UK’s Commander in south Iraq has officially handed over authority to US Major General Michael Oates at Basra. UK has nearly 4000 troops in Iraq. All except some 400 of them are expected to leave by 31st May.  This withdrawal comes after six long years of conflicts.  US Army will stay longer to train Iraqi [...]

Thousands of U.S troops in Iraq may soon be heading home. U.S President Barack Obama plans to withdraw troops from Iraq by August 2010. Troops can heave a sign of relieve and their families can live up to their hopes. 
Reports suggest that out of the 142, 000 U.S troops in Iraq, approximately 50, 000 will [...]

Suicide among US soldiers in active service is at record high. The number of soldiers who committed suicide in 2008 rose to about 143 from 115 the previous year. Experts attribute this fact to the attendant pressure in times of war. Army statistics released recently showed that 30 percent of those who committed suicide last [...]