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Topic: Iraq

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February 27, 2013
6:39 pm

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi PM warns Syrian rebel victory will bring chaos

Maliki says if opposition wins, ‘there will be a civil war in Lebanon, divisions in Jordan and a sectarian war in Iraq’

February 24, 2013
4:09 pm

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, Syrian refugee girls carry over their heads buckets of water as they walk at Atmeh refugee camp, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria (photo credit: Hussein Malla/AP)

The new, scary face of Iraqi sectarianism

Mohammed Morsi charges ahead with elections despite opposition, and a lead editor claims there is no hope for Syria

By Elhanan Miller

February 20, 2013
4:09 pm

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Alaa Al-Marjani)

Iranian-backed Iraq group recasts itself as political player

From the web Washington Post: Asaib Ahl al-Haq — the League of the Righteous — has built a social services network based on Hezbollah’s

February 20, 2013
12:51 pm

An anti-Syrian regime activist stands in front of flames and black smoke from a bombed oil pipeline in Homs, Syria in February 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)

Baghdad okays Syria-Iran natural gas pipeline

1,500 kilometer project will traverse Iraq, supply fuel to the Assad regime

February 18, 2013
1:39 am

Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian opposition party National Council of Resistance of Iran, smiles as she attends an international conference on Iranian policy in Brussels in 2011. (photo credit: Yves Logghe/AP)

US lawmakers meet with Iranian exiles in Paris

Iraq slammed for lethal attack on village housing members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq anti-regime militant group

By Jamey Keaten

February 14, 2013
4:23 pm

German Ambassador to Israel Andreas Michaelis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 17, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90

Germany to help Israelis stuck in unfriendly countries

Tourists having trouble in one of the 30 states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations will no longer be on their own

By Raphael Ahren

February 13, 2013
1:43 am

NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East

Poor management, increased demands and drought costs region 144 cubic kilometers of stored freshwater

February 9, 2013
9:10 am

In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization are seen inside the Liberty refugee camp in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi police say assailants have fired rockets at a refugee camp for an Iranian exile group outside Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding more than 40. The camp houses members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, the militant wing of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban, File)

6 dead in attack targeting Iranian exile camp in Iraq

Dozens wounded by rockets and mortars fired at settlement outside Baghdad housing 3,100 members of opposition group

By Sinan Salaheddin

February 4, 2013
8:55 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Economy, military shape Washington’s moves on Iran

In wake of Israeli elections, Netanyahu too weak to successfully lobby the US for a ‘green light to attack,’ expert says

By Steven R. Hurst

January 14, 2013
1:49 am

Shiite protesters take to the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday to show support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government (photo credit: AP/Khalid Mohammed)

Roadside bomb targets Iraq’s finance minister

Rafia al-Issawi, one of government’s senior Sunni officials, is unhurt; attack may set off new protests against Shiite-dominated leadership

January 9, 2013
1:56 pm

Floods near the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv due to heavy rain on January 7. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Soaked with news about rain

Water problems — for once not a lack of it — get top billing in every paper

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 9, 2013
5:39 am

One of the images that set off the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal (photo credit: US Military/Wikimedia Commons)

US defense contractor pays over $5 million to ex-Abu Ghraib inmates

Settlement marks first successful effort by former prisoners to collect money in lawsuits alleging torture

January 6, 2013
11:03 pm

The son of a Jewish refugee from Iraq, Elan Carr temporarily lived in the country as an officer in the US army. (Eytan Rait)

Iraqi past trails former frat boy to Israel, LA and Saddam’s former palace

Now a prosecutor and the head of the world’s largest Jewish fraternity, Elan Carr has drawn on his painful family history in each phase of life

By Tracy Frydberg

January 5, 2013
2:53 pm

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (photo credit: AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi government: President making progress in stroke recovery

Talabani’s condition said to be ‘reassuring,’ contrary to an earlier Le Figaro report describing him as ‘clinically dead’

January 1, 2013
1:25 pm

Shiite pilgrims march on their way to Karbala for Arbaeen in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)

Iraq gushes and Egypt falters

New year will be bad for Egypt, Arab columnist speculates