Iraq
June 29, 2000
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has deplored the deadly attack on a United Nations building in Baghdad, while the Security Council reiterated the need
Iran freed late Wednesday 450 Iraqi prisoners-of-war, who were captured during the 1980-1988 war between the two countries, the official IRNA agency r
June 28, 2000
Turkish Parliament on Wednesday renewed permission for US and British planes to use a Turkish air base to patrol the no-fly zone over northern Iraq, r
The gunman who killed two UN employees at the Baghdad headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday demanded the lifting of
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz on Wednesday rejected "indefinite" international punishment of Iraq, saying Baghdad would no longer accept UN w
Iranian authorities have impounded two Iraqi tankers suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil, reported The Associated Press, quoting Iranian state radio. Th
Two workers from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) were shot dead in an attack on its Baghdad headquarters on Wednesday, UN officials sai
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan promised to reconsider the 10-year-old UN air embargo against Iraq during talks Tuesday with the speaker of parliament
A Russian firm received the first contract to sell Iraqi crude oil under the latest phase of the Oil-for-Food program, the UN sanctions committee anno
June 27, 2000
Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mohammad Said Sahhaf, has called on Arab leaders to break the unofficial air transport embargo on Iraq by flying in to the cou
Iraqi authorities have lifted curbs on foreign currency dealings inside the country's two free trade zones where company and income taxes have also be
Former UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, on Monday called for sanctions against Iraq to be lifted. Ritter, an American, who spent seven years in Ira
A delegation of Italian MPs has held a series of meetings with senior Iraqi ministers on means of developing cooperation between the two countries, ne
The United States will train up to 145 members of the Iraqi opposition-in-exile in skills such as field medicine, logistics, computers, communications
US Vice President Al Gore reiterated Monday support for Iraqi opposition groups opposed to the government of President Saddam Hussein. Gore, who is se