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Iraq withdrawal: U.S. abandoning plans to keep troops in country

Iraq withdrawal: U.S. abandoning plans to keep troops in country

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Is U.S. Abandoning Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq

Is U.S. Abandoning Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
U.S. Said To Have Abandoned Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq Next Year

U.S. Said To Have Abandoned Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq Next Year

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Legendary Comedian Professor Irwin Corey begs for money on work New York despite living in $3.5m home (but it’s all for charity)

Legendary Comedian Professor Irwin Corey begs for money on work New York despite living in $3.5m home (but it’s all for charity)

Hobbling along between cars in his walker, asking for change and proffering free newspapers in return, it is hard to believe he was once known as ‘The World’s Foremost Authority’. Professor Irwin Corey, comedian, actor and left-wing political activist, strolls along Manhattan’s East 35th Street pan-handling every day, seven days a week, for the last [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
‘It was an act of war’:Senators demand action after murder plot,urging Obama to crush Iran’s central bank

‘It was an act of war’:Senators demand action after murder plot,urging Obama to crush Iran’s central bank

President Obama today declared Iran will be isolated from the rest of the world and ‘pay a price’ for its alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D.C. His comments follow Saudi Arabia’s own stark warning to Iran that ‘somebody will have to pay the price’ and a U.S. [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Coordinated Attacks In Iraq Kill At Least 25

Coordinated Attacks In Iraq Kill At Least 25

BAGHDAD — Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people Wednesday and maimed dozens in the worst violence in the capital since August. Less than three months before American troops are to leave Iraq, the blasts were a brutal example of the challenges Iraqi [...]

October 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Iraq struggles to revive ailing date palm sector

Iraq struggles to revive ailing date palm sector

BAGHDAD (AP) — After years of wars, sanctions and drought, farmer Qais Nima Khamis says it’s time to save the dates — and bring back Iraq’s long-regaled fruit palm industry, which once led the world market. Khamis, whose family has been growing the fruit since 1880, is growing hundreds of more date trees this year, [...]

September 25, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Official: Series of explosions rock Iraq’s holy city of Karbala, killing at least 6

Official: Series of explosions rock Iraq’s holy city of Karbala, killing at least 6

BAGHDAD (AP) — A local government official says four explosions have killed at least six people in the holy Shiite city of Karbala in southern Iraq. Karbala provincial council chairman Mohammed al-Moussawi says he saw the dead at Karbala hospital after the blasts shook the city on Sunday morning. Police and hospital officials confirmed the [...]

September 25, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Massive U.S. embassy in Iraq will expand further as soldiers leave

Massive U.S. embassy in Iraq will expand further as soldiers leave

WASHINGTON — American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits — or not — but the U.S. government’s enormously expensive intervention there is hardly coming to an end. In a telling sign of how dangerous and chaotic Iraq remains more than eight years after President George W. Bush launched the war against [...]

September 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Howard McKeon, GOP chairman of house armed services committee, criticizes Obama’s national security policies

Howard McKeon, GOP chairman of house armed services committee, criticizes Obama’s national security policies

WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Monday criticized President Barack Obama’s national security policies as often reflective of a view that “treats American power as the principle adversary, not ally, to world peace.” In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, California Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon warned that cuts [...]

September 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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