| Electricity Ministry wants helicopters to protect lines, stations |
| To ease power outages which now continue for more than 20 hours a day the Ministry of Electricity is mulling the purchase of warfare helicopters to protect its workers and fight saboteurs.... more 10/05/2008 |
| U.S. wants to build ‘paradise’ amid the burning hell it ignited in Iraq |
| The United States has leaked what can only exist in the imagination of science fiction writers. It wants to turn its fortress in Baghdad called the Green Zone into a shiny, tourist village with a ‘dream list’ of attractions.... more 09/05/2008 |
| Legislators ask government to allocate money for refugees |
| Iraqi legislators have urged the government to set aside part of the country’s oil revenues to help Iraqi refugees.... more 08/05/2008 |
| More finds retrieved by Antiquities Department |
| The Antiquities Department has acquired 463 artifacts uncovered illegally from ancient sites in the country.... more 06/05/2008 |
| Casualties mount in Sadr City as U.S. troops press ahead with attack |
| Deaths and injuries are soaring in the Sadr City as U.S. troops increase their military and economic pressure on the city home to more than 2.5 million people.... more 05/05/2008 |
| Troops mass as attack on Mosul looms |
| The government is massing troops for an imminent attack on the northern city of Mosul, the interior minister said.... more 03/05/2008 |
| Mass grave enquiry formed |
| A joint commission to investigate a controversial mass grave discovered last week in the city of Mahmoudiya has been formed.... more 02/05/2008 |
| U.S. repeats Halabja massacre in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Iraqi legislators say |
| In 1988, former leader Saddam Hussein gassed his own people in the city of Halabja. For the U.S. he was then seen as a ‘good boy’... more 01/05/2008 |
| Retrieved Iraqi antiquities fly first class on journey from Syria |
| The looted artifacts which Syrian authorities retrieved and handed over to Iraq were flown first class to Baghdad.... more 30/04/2008 |
| Iraq boosts crude exports to Turkey |
| Exports from the northern oil fields of Kirkuk to Turkey have surged to 430,000 barrels a day, Oil Ministry sources said.... more 29/04/2008 |
| Iraq mulls reintroducing the draft |
| Iraq is determined to reintroduce the draft which the U.S. had it scrapped shortly after its 2003 invasion, a senior member of parliament said.... more 28/04/2008 |
| Iraqis want to revise constitution and U.S. warplanes bomb Baghdad |
| Bombing by warplanes, helicopter gun ships and rockets is going on unabated in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq while our politicians mull revising the ‘constitution’... more 27/04/2008 |
| Syria hands 700 missing artifacts to Iraq |
| Syria has delivered to Iraq 700 Mesopotamian artifacts that had gone missing in the aftermath of U.S. invasion of the country.... more 25/04/2008 |
| U.S. kills 800 in 3 weeks in Sadr city |
| U.S. occupation forces have killed more than 800 people, most of them innocent civilians, in their three-week long military campaign to subdue the Mahdi Army in Sadr City, the leader of Sadr movement in Baghdad said.... more 24/04/2008 |
| Drop in Iraqi oil exports |
| Iraqi oil exports have dropped by 17,000 barrels last month mainly due to lower output from the northern oil fields of Kirkuk, an Oil Ministry statement said.... more 23/04/2008 |
| Headless bodies make comeback |
| Medical and security sources say 21 unidentified corpses were collected in the past two days in the restive city of Baaquouba.... more 21/04/2008 |
| Ministry to purchase weapons worth $2.6 billion |
| The Ministry of Defense has allocated $2.6 billion for the purchase of weapons for the Iraqi armed forces, the army’s chief of staff said.... more 19/04/2008 |
| The Yezidis of Iraq say Kurds oppressing them and forcing them to flee |
| The supreme leader of the Yezidis in Iraq says his community is in danger losing its ancestral habitat and existence in Iraq.... more 17/04/2008 |
| Border point with Iran turned into international crossing |
| The unofficial border point of Haj Omran linking northern Iraq with Iran has been refurbished and turned into an international border crossing.... more 16/04/2008 |
| Kurds snatch new concessions on oil and militias |
| Iraqi Kurds have won two major concessions from the central government in Baghdad one on oil and the second on the state of their militias known locally as Peshmerga.... more 15/04/2008 |
| Whose mass graves are these? |
| The phrase “mass graves” in Iraq has long been associated with former leader Saddam Hussein. But not anymore. In U.S.administered and occupied Iraq people now talk of ‘Bush’s mass graves.... more 14/04/2008 |
| Business sluggish in Karbala due to drastic drop in tourists |
| Shop and hotel owners as well as small businesses have suffered heavily due to a drastic slump in the number of foreign tourists visiting the holy city of Karbala, according to Abed al-Furati, head of the city’s tourist department.... more 13/04/2008 |
| U.S. offensives on Falluja have disabled 500 children |
| The number of children who have been handicapped or disabled due to massive U.S. offensives to subdue the restive city of Falluja has reached 500, according to a private aid group.... more 12/04/2008 |
| More projects for Karbala |
| Work on projects worth nearly $100 million is to start in the religious city of Karbala.... more 11/04/2008 |
| Who are Iraq’s outlaws? |
| Five years after the fall of Baghdad, Iraq has turned into a country of outlaws.... more 09/04/2008 |
| Disbanding militias divides parliament |
| The call by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for Sadr’s Madhi Army to disband has divided the parliament with deputies urging other militia groups to disarm.... more 08/04/2008 |
| Sadr’s Mahdi Army refuses to disarm |
| A senior official of the movement led by the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has said that the group’s military wing, the Mahdi Army, will not lay down arms as demanded by the government.... more 07/04/2008 |
| Ministry doctors figures on power output |
| It is lie, lie, lie. That has been the world of Iraq before and after U.S. invasion troops landed in the land of Twin Rivers.... more 06/04/2008 |
| Baghdad neighborhoods in need of ‘more military raids’ warns Maliki |
| Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has warned that he intends to order new military attacks on certain neighborhoods in Baghdad.... more 05/04/2008 |
| Pro-government militiamen integrated in armed forces; move angers rival groups |
| Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has decided to integrate loyal militia groups into the armed forces.... more 03/04/2008 |