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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The situation in Iraq is perilous, with Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence surpassing al Qaeda as the most immediate threat to U.S. goals, according to a long-awaited intelligence report, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
Read More »Fleeing One Bomb, Iraqi Shoppers Die In Blast of Another
Without speaking a word, police officer Ahmed Eid Majood, guarding one of the entrances to the bazaar in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla, lunged toward the man and wrapped his arms around his body.
Read More »Olmert approves rerouting of barrier
RAMALLAH — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a rerouting of Israel’s separation barrier to take in two more illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Israeli media reported yesterday.
Read More »US stops F-14 parts sales, hints Iran behind Karbala attack
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States took new steps to isolate Iran by freezing the sale of all F-14 fighter parts, as officials told US news media they suspect Iranians masquerading as Americans were involved in a deadly attack on a US compound in Iraq.
Read More »Bombs strike Shiite areas in Baghdad, Sunnis face mortar attacks, kidnappings
BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs struck mostly Shiite targets in Baghdad on Wednesday, and the bodies of three Sunni professors and a student were found days after they were seized while leaving their campus in a Shiite part of the city. At least 47 people were reported killed across the …
Read More »Bulgaria targets Libyan police over nurses’ torture
SOFIA (AFP) — A Bulgarian prosecutor launched a judicial enquiry Wednesday against 11 Libyan police officers who allegedly tortured five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a high-profile AIDS epidemic case.
Read More »Training Iraqi police essential, study group says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Training the police is as important to stabilising Iraq as building up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.
Read More »Adrift in Syria, Baghdad woman’s dreams die
DAMASCUS — For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the US authorities after the 2003 invasion.
Read More »Millions of dollars wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid — investigators
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.
Read More »White House Fearful of Iran’s Extensive Ties with Iraq
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The White House reacted warily to Iran’s plans to expand ties with Iraq, saying that Tehran needed play a constructive role but leaving bilateral relations up to Baghdad
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