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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 [...]

Its been three years since the demise of the former President and dictator of the now liberated Iraq, but it seems that his popularity and his words are still entrenched in the hearts and minds of numerous individuals in the country and as well as across the Middle East. This weekend, the citizens of Iraq, woke up to a mysterious channel playing out [...]

The one reason that led to the war in Iraq in the year 2003 was the possession of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and it is the same reason, that has got the new Iraqi government all riled up. The new Saddam Hussein free Iraq is looking forward for its own nuclear capabilities which it emphasizes, is required to meet the nation’s [...]

A string of suicide car bombings left Baghdad picking up the pieces and shattered its false sense of security, The Iraqi capital was rocked by a numerous car bombings that, were targeted at several government buildings and took the lives of 147 people. Yesterday’s attack is said to be the biggest and the most devastating in the last two years. The [...]

Diseases usually have unpronounceable scary scientific names, sometimes even humorous un-sexy names, and bring to mind pictures of strange bacteria that we faintly remember having studied in a long ago biology class. Not often though would the mention of a disease bring to mind the image of a well-known person. Dirk Silz, creative director at Das Committee [...]

Many people were killed and hundreds injured in various deadly bomb explosions which rocked Baghdad today. The coordinated mortar fire and car bomb attacks were mainly targeted at all official government buildings including the most deadly one near Foreign Ministry. Sunni extremists are suspected to be responsible for these attacks. The attacks have [...]

As attested by Article 113 of the Iraqi Constitution, Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained official recognition internationally as an autonomous federal entity. The governorates of Duhok , Erbil and Suleimaniya form the current Kurdistan Region. The population comes up to 3.3 million over an area of 80,000 square kilometers, and composed [...]

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 in a time when national [...]

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 defense personnel and police and help to keep [...]

For the execution of 42 Iraqi merchants in 1992, Tareq Aziz is condemned to 15 years in prison. Aziz is former deputy premier of Iraq. The same sentence has been meted to Ali Hassan al-Majid known as Chemical Ali, Saddam’s cousin. The Iraqi Special Tribunal also sentenced to death two half-brothers of executed dictator Saddam Hussein for crimes against [...]