Iraq
May 20, 2000
The review conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went past deadline into Saturday with the United States and Iraq deadlocked on the singl
May 19, 2000
The Pentagon Thursday said its aircraft dropped no bombs or missiles in flights over southern Iraq Wednesday, and that any civilian casualties claimed
Iran has complained to the United Nations about what it says are repeated violations by Iraq of their 1988 ceasefire, according to a bbc.com report. T
May 18, 2000
Iran will next week unilaterally free 460 Iraqi prisoners it captured during its 1980-1988 war with Iraq, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported We
An Iraqi child was killed and four other civilians were injured, two of them seriously, by a missile fired from a US plane flying over southern Iraq
May 17, 2000
The Russian government has condemned a series of US and British air strikes against targets in northern and southern Iraq which Baghdad has claimed le
May 16, 2000
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Saadoun Hammadi, began a four-day visit to France on Tuesday, in his first visit to an EU country since an intern
May 15, 2000
Close ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran should help topple the Iraqi president, a leading opposition figure said Sunday in Kuwait, where Western anal
May 13, 2000
Iraq's exiled Shiite opposition claimed Saturday that a rocket attack on central Baghdad targeted president Saddam Hussein's main palace in the capita
May 10, 2000
Western aircraft bombed Iraqi air defences Wednesday after coming under anti-aircraft fire while patrolling a no-fly zone in the north, Reuters said.
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has likened Iraq's confrontation with the US superpower over the past decade to a Jihad, or Muslim holy war, newspapers
Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said Sahhaf and his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic agreed in talks in Belgrade Tuesday that sanctions were a "
May 8, 2000
Members of nine Arab parliaments appealed to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday to seek the immediate lifting of sanctions on Iraq which they s
Various Arab states are currently in the habit of investing heavily in railroad infrastructure to improve current facilities and to link remote areas. In Iraq, the Public Enterprise for Railroads c
May 7, 2000
About 20 members of parliament from nine Arab countries left Amman Sunday to travel by road to Baghdad for a solidarity visit lasting several days.