For over 100 years, archaeologists have been flummoxed by a set of symbols discovered at an ancient temple in Iraq — until now. An expert on Mesopotamia says he has decoded the symbols, revealing a “clever” double entendre, according to an article published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. The sequence […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. Warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the regions of Hakurk, Metina and Gara in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, according to the statement. The airstrikes […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said that a law passed by Iraq’s parliament on Saturday criminalizing same-sex relationships was a threat to human rights and freedoms and would weaken Iraq’s ability to diversify its economy and attract foreign investment. “This amendment threatens those most at risk in Iraqi society. It can be used […]
President of the Kurdistan region in Iraq Nechirvan Barzani (R) and Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (L) receive Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) during a welcoming ceremony at Erbil International Airport (EIA). Ismael Adnan/dpa Turkey, Iraq and two Gulf countries have signed a declaration to pursue closer trade links with a new economic […]
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) -At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar towards a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters. The attack against U.S. forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against U.S. troops. The attack comes […]
(Bloomberg) — Canada’s newest oil pipeline may spell trouble for a Middle Eastern country almost 7,000 miles away: Iraq. Most Read from Bloomberg The Trans Mountain pipeline’s expansion, which will almost triple Alberta oil-sands producers’ ability to ship their heavy crude to the Pacific Coast, will most directly affect a similar grade called Basrah Heavy […]
Born July 18, 1941, William David Delahunt was a proud son of Quincy, a city bearing the name of presidents. But Bill Delahunt’s background was far from political aristocracy. His mother worked as a secretary, his father a salesman for U.S. Rubber Company, the family a combination of Canadian and Irish immigrants — fertile turf […]
BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The defendant, a German […]
An Irish citizen has been told he will not be permitted to leave Iraq as expected, days after being assured that all charges against him had been dropped. Yasser Eljuboori was detained by Iraqi police on Monday last week after he tried to board a flight back to Dublin following a trip to visit his […]
In December, 39 Missouri National Guardsmen received Combat Infantryman Badges, the formal recognition given only to troops who have engaged in “active ground combat,” for actions that took place during their 2023 deployment to Syria. It was a somewhat uncommon occasion. Taking hostile fire in the Middle East had become more of a rarity for […]
A cattle ship blamed for causing a foul smell engulfing Cape Town has departed for Iraq, an animal welfare group has confirmed. The Al Kuwait ship docked in the city’s harbour from Brazil on Sunday to load feed for its cargo of 19,000 cows. Residents soon began complaining of a “nauseating” stench emanating from it. […]
Claim: Beau Biden, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, died while serving in the military in Iraq. Rating: Rating: False Context: Biden falsely stated that his son Beau Biden died in Iraq, even though Beau actually died from brain cancer in 2015, six years after he returned from his military service. Biden himself has been open […]