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A prosecutor has asked Sweden said on Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of the site WikiLeaks, to be arrested on suspicion of rape, a charge he strongly denies. The Swedish prosecutor has begun an investigation into allegations of rape against Assange, an Australian citizen in September. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that he [...]

Confidential documents about the war in Iraq, released on Friday by the WikiLeaks site, show the support of Iraqi Shiite militias by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the elite Iranian military, the newspaper report The New York Times and Al Jazeera . The role of Iran in the Iraq War is the subject of numerous documents, many of which suggest that [...]

The 1st person shooter game series Medal of Honor allows the player to be a Taliban soldier in multiplayer mode, and even before its release in October, has raised controversy. The U.S. network Fox News has presented the views of a mother whose son was killed in combat in Iraq on the new game from Electronic Arts. “Families buried their children [...]

A supervisory body for U.S. federal criticized the Pentagon on Tuesday, 27, saying that it did not properly justify the expenditure of billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said that the U.S. Defense Department is accountable for approximately $ 8.7 billion of the $ 9 billion for the [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the [...]

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 [...]

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 will now pull out [...]

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 billion barrels. It is the third largest oil [...]

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 [...]