Iraq
June 23, 2000
An Iraqi surgeon held in Australia as an illegal immigrant said Friday he fled his homeland because he was not prepared to obey orders to cut off the
June 21, 2000
Iraq has exported crude oil earning more than 29 billion dollars, representing more than 1.8 billion barrels, since the start of the Oil-for-Food prog
June 20, 2000
The Security Council urged Iraq Monday to return property seized from Kuwait after its 1990 invasion and account for hundreds of missing people, addin
June 18, 2000
Iraqi foreign minister Mohammad Said Sahhaf on Sunday blasted Turkey as a "key partner" of the almost daily US-led air strikes on Iraq during patrols
A high-ranking defector from Iraq's army, Najib al-Salihi, said Sunday that he was the victim of unspecified "immoral blackmail" by President Saddam H
June 17, 2000
An official Iraqi daily called Saturday for OPEC unity in the face of pressure from the United States, which it accused of working against the interes
June 16, 2000
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Iraq on Thursday to make extra effort to find and return archives, military equipment and cultural items removed
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein said Thursday the World Bank is a "cancer" gnawing at the Third World, the official INA news agency reported. "Economis
June 14, 2000
An official Iraqi newspaper on Wednesday warned fellow OPEC member states against falling into the American "trap" of hiking production to lower world
June 13, 2000
Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has given instructions to hire the "best foreign coach" for the national team, without specifying what nationality wou
Iraq exported 8.285 billion dollars worth of crude oil under UN supervision in the recently ended 180-day phase of its oil-for-food program, the Unite
June 12, 2000
Iraq asked the United Nations on Sunday to free up $400 million from the surplus in an escrow account to purchase humanitarian supplies for the Iraqi
June 10, 2000
A UN Security Council extension of a humanitarian program in Iraq, secured after acrimonious debate, drew criticism Friday by some Iraqis who receive
By Munir K. Nasser Washington, DC Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas R. Pickering was heckled and booed by an angry Arab American a
June 9, 2000
The Security Council extended the UN's Iraq oil-for-food program for 180 days late Thursday in a unanimous vote that belied sharp differences over its