(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday. * denotes new or updated items. * BAGHDAD – 10 people died and 61 were wounded in fighting in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, on Tuesday, an Iraqi health official said.
Read More »FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq
The U.S. military said that four of its soldiers were killed on Monday in separate incidents in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:
Read More »Iraq’s humanitarian crisis worsens: U.N. official
AMMAN (Reuters) – Iraq’s humanitarian crisis has worsened, and decades of conflict and deteriorating basic services are reducing people’s ability to cope with the hardships they face, a senior U.N. aid official said on Monday.
Read More »West Needs to Revise View of Iran’s Supreme Leader
TEHRAN (FNA)- There is perhaps no leader in the world more important to current world affairs but less known and understood than the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
Read More »Iran Calls for Boycott of Dutch Products over Anti-Islam Film
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel urged Muslims to boycott Dutch goods in response to a film by a far-right Dutch politician that insults Islamic values and links the holy Koran to violence.
Read More »Ahmadinejad to Visit Natanz N. Facility
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to visit Natanz nuclear facility on the occasion of the National Day of Nuclear Technology.
Read More »Iran Determined to Expand Ties with Thailand
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received the new Thai ambassador to Tehran, Suwit Saicheua, in a meeting here on Sunday.
Read More »Iraqi PM: Sadr to Be Barred from Politics unless Militia Disbanded
TEHRAN (FNA)- Young Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr will be sidelined from politics unless he disbands his militia, Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned on Monday as fresh fighting erupted in Baghdad.
Read More »OPEC to Keep Production at Current Level
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari stressed here Saturday night that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will neither increase nor decrease production in order to keep oil prices at 100 US dollars per barrel.
Read More »Bush Cites Putin Leadership on Iran N. Issue
TEHRAN (FNA)- US President George W. Bush thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday for Moscow’s efforts to help ease alleged international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.
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