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Zebari warns against power vacuum
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has warned of continued violence and killings if major parties fail to reach a consensus over the next prime minister. The failure to form a government almost four months after an inconclusive general election has triggered public anger and protests across Iraqi cities. On Sunday, at least one person was shot dead by Iraqi security forces after thousands of people took to the streets to protest electricity shortages in the southern port city of ...
News | Iraq | Tuesday 22 June 2010
Iraq Car Bombs Kill 6, Wound 82
Two car bombs targeting a provincial councilor and a police officer north of Baghdad on Friday killed six people and wounded 82, many of them women or children, police said.Previous figures said that five Iraqis were killed and other 79 were wounded.The six dead came in a bombing in the town of Tuz Khurmatu and targeted the home of Niazar Nomaroglu, a councilor in Salaheddin province, police Colonel Hussein al-Bayati said. Women and children were among the 50 people wounded in the 3:45 ...
News | Iraq | Sunday 20 June 2010
Kuwait Asks Lebanon Not to Hand Over Jailed Citizen to Iraq
Kuwait has asked Lebanon not to hand over to Iraq a Kuwaiti citizen serving a life term in Beirut for alleged al-Qaida links, a Kuwaiti foreign ministry official said on Thursday. The ministry has expressed "through official contacts the state of Kuwait's total rejection of the extradition of citizen Mohammed al-Dossari to any side other than Kuwait," said the official, cited by Kuwait's state-run news agency KUNA. According to Lebanese media, a military court in January sentenced ...
Report | Iraq | Saturday 19 June 2010
US dumping toxic brew in Iraq
The United States will be leaving a toxic brew of hazardous waste behind when US forces withdraw from Iraq, a new report says. On Monday, The Times of London said that companies from the United States are selling local Iraqi scrap dealers a cocktail of toxic material and ordinary waste. The waste is being disposed of locally instead of being returned for treatment or shipped to Iraq-based factories which specialize in disposal. The US Defense Department has taken account of "an ...
News | Iraq | Tuesday 15 June 2010
Times: US Military to Punish Culprits Behind Toxic Waste Dumping in Iraq
The British based Times newspaper revealed in a report published on Tuesday 15 June, 2010 that the US Occupation in Iraq have been dumping oils, acids, filters and batteries in Iraqi scrap yards, while US reveals concern and claims the intention to prosecute such violations.The American military has announced an investigation into its disposal of hazardous material in Iraq and declared its intention to prosecute anyone violating environmental standards. The announcement comes after ...
News | Iraq | Tuesday 15 June 2010
Iraqi Kurds seek written guarantees
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region is demanding written guarantees for the protection of key Kurdish issues before it backs a new Iraqi government. "We would like to see clear guarantees that some of the marginalization that the Kurds have suffered will not be repeated," Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Salih said in an interview in London with The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Salih stressed that these guarantees, including the region's long-demanded right to oversee its oil resources, ...
News | Iraq | Tuesday 15 June 2010
Iraqi parliament to commence Monday
The 325-seat Iraqi parliament will hold its first inaugural session on Monday under heavy security, after a three-month delay. The leaders of the two largest political blocs have met for the first time since the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary elections. The two main Shia electoral blocs — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law and the Iraqi National Alliance — announced a new coalition on Thursday, June 10, under a new name, The National Alliance. "We have decided to ...
News | Iraq | Monday 14 June 2010
Iraq Central Bank attacks leave 15 dead
Explosive attacks and exchanges of fire at the compound of the Iraq Central Bank in Baghdad have killed at least 15 people and injured more than 40 others. Those behind the attacks on Sunday triggered eight explosions and took hostages, prompting a siege at the bank's whereabouts, AFP reported. Bank workers comprised most of the casualties, said one defense official. It is yet to unclear whether the assailants had meant to empty the vault, destroy the building or target the ...
News | Iraq | Monday 14 June 2010
UK guard faces death penalty in Iraq
A British security guard faces the death penalty for the murder of two of his colleagues in a drunken rampage at a bar in Baghdad's Green Zone. Danny Fitzsimons, 33, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, is a former paratrooper who was working for ArmorGroup, the private security division of G4S, last August when he shot two colleagues and an Iraqi interpreter. He has claimed innocence, saying he acted in self defense. He is accused of murdering Paul McGuigan, 37, of Peebles, Scotland, and ...
News | Iraq | Monday 14 June 2010
Blix to testify in Iraq war inquiry
Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has been called to appear before Britain's Iraq war inquiry panel for a testimony which will shed more light on the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Along with Blix, the "Chilcot" inquiry has also called top military and political officials for giving testimonies before the five-member panel investigating Britain's role in the war and the subsequent conflict. Authorities in the US and the UK used toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's alleged ...
Report | Iraq | Sunday 13 June 2010
'US troops kill 5 Iraqi bystanders'
Iraqis witnessing the arrival of US infantrymen on their rooftop have lost their lives after their house came under a bloody attack by the American troops. The Friday attack took place in al-Khanafsa area, south of Baghdad and near the holy city of Karbala, witnesses said, according to Reuters. "The US troops came from here on foot patrol…," said one witness. "When they arrived, a man went to the roof of his house to look at them, they intentionally opened fire at him as they saw him ...
News | Iraq | Sunday 13 June 2010
Iraqi parliament to meet on June 14
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office says the first session of the new parliament will be held on Monday after a delay of three months. He said the delay was because of the failure to form a new government after the May 7 elections since no candidate claimed an outright victory. None of the political groups managed to secure the 163 seats needed to form a majority. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's coalition, the Iraqiya bloc, had the most seats with 91, just two more than Prime ...
News | Iraq | Sunday 13 June 2010