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.
May 5, 2000
With hugs and jubilation, dozens of relatives welcomed home 480 Iraqi prisoners of war released Thursday by Iran despite its strained relations with I
May 2, 2000
By: Noura Wazani Iraq denounced a recent decision by the Gulf countries blaming the Iraqi government for the decade-old UN sanctions imposed on the c
Eight civilians were injured in rocket attacks on a residential area of the Iraqi capital late Monday, the official news agency INA said Tuesday, pinn
May 1, 2000
Iraq prefers to repair a disused oil terminal on the Gulf rather than reopen a pipeline through Syria to boost its UN-controlled oil exports, Midd
US and British warplanes based in Turkey have bombed civilian sites in northern Iraq, without leaving casualties, an Iraqi military spokesman said Mon