May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 Hot Springs Sentinel | Army Opens Jobs In Combat Battalions To Women WKRG-TV Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The policy change announced earlier this year is being tested ... Timothy Kudo: Why the ban on women in combat? |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 USA TODAY | Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD STLtoday.com Dunson is trying to turn his PTSD from serving in Iraq into a rap career. The Las Vegas college student has self-published several albums with songs like “If I Don't Make it Home” and “My 1st Kill.” (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) On one of the many days Leo ... Iraq War veteran uses rap to treat post-traumatic stress Iraq war veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
South Korea's Hanwah Engineering to Sign $7 Billion Iraq Project Bloomberg Iraq will soon sign a $7 billion agreement with South Korea's Hanwah Engineering & Construction Corp. to build 100000 housing units in the country, the chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission said. “The signing will be final and the work will ... |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 CBS2 Chicago | US veterans to return war medals in protest msnbc.com (blog) By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com Iraq war veteran Steven Acheson will engage in the rarest of protests this weekend: He will hand back his military service medals at the NATO summit in Chicago, an act one veteran calls "disgraceful. vets to hand back medals at NATO summit Iraq War Veteran To Throw Medals Away During NATO Summit Iraq War vet talks about why he wants to return his medals during NATO summit |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 The Hindu | Iraq Replaces Iran as India's Second-Largest Crude Oil Supplier Wall Street Journal By RAKESH SHARMA And SANTANU CHOUDHURY NEW DELHI – Iraq replaced Iran as India's second-largest crude oil supplier in the recently ended financial year, preliminary government data showed Wednesday, as New Delhi cut shipments from Tehran ahead of ... Iraq Replaces Iran As India's Second-Largest Crude-Oil Supplier -Preliminary Data Iran, Iraq to develop joint oil fields |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 Scranton Times-Tribune | Disease caught in Iraq fatal to vet Scranton Times-Tribune By Bob Kalinowski (Staff Writer) FORTY FORT - Loved ones of US Army Spc. Dominick J. Liguori say he was fighter, but the 31-year-old could not overcome the lung disease they say he developed while serving in Iraq. Family and friends gathered Tuesday ... |
May 16, 2012 in Iraq
 The Nation, Pakistan | In the World Philadelphia Inquirer BAGHDAD - Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader began. Terror Trial of Iraq VP Starts in Baghdad 'Iraq VP masterminded killings' |
May 15, 2012 in Iraq
 Telegraph.co.uk | Iraq still operating secret torture site, rights group says Los Angeles Times A clandestine jail and alleged torture site under the control of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki continues to operate more than a year after the government ordered it shut down, Human Rights Watch claims in a report being released Tuesday. Notorious prison still exists in Iraq, rights group reports HRW Alleges Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions In Iraq's Camp Honor Prison Human Rights Watch: 'Closed' Iraq torture jail still open |
May 12, 2012 in Iraq
Iraq's Kurds fire back in dispute with Iran over Mossad Ahram Online The government of Iraq's Kurdish region fired back on Saturday over allegations by Iranian diplomats and officials that Kurdistan was playing host to Israeli intelligence. Kurdish authorities described the claims, made in previous weeks, as "untrue", ... First Romanian-Kurdish economic forum held in Erbil |
May 12, 2012 in Iraq
Syria starting to draw Iraq comparisons TheReporter.com For many, the al-Qaida-style tactics recall those once familiar in the country's eastern neighbor, Iraq, raising fears that Syria's conflict is drifting further away from the Arab Spring calls for political change and closer to a bloody insurgency. |
