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- Baghdadis revel in first big football final in years
- BAGHDAD AFP — For two hours on a clear, hot summer evening, Baghdadis forgot the bloodshed and hatred that has divided their city and shared their delight for Iraq's national passion -- football. For the first time since the US-led invasion of 2003, nearly 50,000 people crowded the national...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- US monthly toll in Iraq at lowest since invasion
- BAGHDAD AFP — Eleven US soldiers were killed in Iraq in July, the lowest monthly toll since the 2003 invasion, according Pentagon figures, highlighting what US commanders say is a marked drop in overall violence. The number compares with the deadliest month of November 2004 when 137 American troops...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- ETimor capital shuts down for movie invasion remake
- DILI AFP — Filmmakers recreated scenes of chaos in the heart of East Timor's sleepy capital Thursday, blocking streets and sending up plumes of smoke for an Australian movie on Indonesia's bloody 1975 invasion. Between 60 and 70 locals took part and 30 East Timorese soldiers dressed as Indonesian...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Rare Iraqi Jewish books 'surface in Israel'
- JERUSALEM AFP — Some 300 rare and valuable books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. The books include a 1487 commentary on the biblical Book of Job and another volume of biblical prophets printed...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Jordan to return stolen antiquities to Iraq
- AMMAN AFP — Jordan said on Wednesday it will return to Iraq around 2,466 artefacts, including gold coins and jewellery, which were stolen after the US-led invasion of its neighbour. "The artefacts will be handed over on Sunday to the Iraqi state minister of tourism Mohammed Abbas Oreibi, who...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- The art of war: US lieutenant brings Iraqi paintings to New York
- NEW YORK AFP — With fiery reds and black-oil-stained browns criss-crossed with misshapen ladders, Mohammed al-Hamadany paints the violence of Baghdad, the battles over power and the shattered innocence. For the US military it was the 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion, but the Iraqi painter ambiguously calls the 25...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- Many of those D-Day heroes made it their ultimate sacrifice; AIR FORCE VETERAN RECALLS FATEFUL WARTIME LANDINGS
- Byline: By DAVID OLD AN eerie silence met Catherine Brightwell as she emerged from an operations room 60ft underground. Soldiers who had filled the streets in the weeks and months leading up to June 6, 1944, had vanished. They had upped and left with little warning to...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- US soldier killed in Iraq
- BAGHDAD AFP — A US soldier was killed by small arms fire during a patrol south of the Iraqi capital, the US military said on Thursday. It said he died on Wednesday, raising to 4,091 the number of US soldiers killed since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, according...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Three US soldiers killed in Iraq
- BAGHDAD AFP — Three American soldiers were killed by small arms fire near the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, the US military said. The attack took place in the mainly Sunni Arab town of Hawijah west of Kirkuk, the military said. "The names of the...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- US records lowest monthly death toll in Iraq
- BAGHDAD AFP — Nineteen US soldiers were killed in Iraq in May, the lowest monthly toll since the US-led invasion of 2003, figures maintained by the independent icasualties.org showed Sunday. The month which saw the highest US losses was November 2004, when 137 American troops were killed, according to...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Rice denies charges US misled public on Iraq war
- STOCKHOLM AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought here Thursday to rally international support for Iraq while denying new charges the Bush administration misled the public into invading the country. The allegations, contained in a harsh new book by President George W. Bush's former chief spokesman, surfaced...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Iraq's Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion
- BABYLON, Iraq AFP — The last outsiders to visit the ruins of the once-mighty city of Babylon in Iraq came in tanks and helicopters, leaving a blight on its historic and fragile landscape, archaeologists say. The city, born on the banks of the Euphrates River 5,000 years ago and...
- Research articles 2008-05-23
- Cherie Blair miscarriage used to supress Iraq invasion speculation
- LONDON AFP — News of a miscarriage suffered by the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq, she said in comments printed in newspapers Monday. Cherie Blair said that as she lay in pain and bleeding...
- Research articles 2008-05-11
- WADA denies random testing an invasion of privacy
- MONTREAL AFP — The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA denied on Friday that their drug testing policies were an invasion of privacy or contravened personal rights after accusations by Britain's Professional Players Federation PPF. The PPF, set up in 1991 to represent professional sportmen and women in the United Kingdom,...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- The Iraq war and former POW John McCain
- Hanoi -- John McCain slept here, though not so well. For more than five years, he bedded down--and bled, and wept, and hallucinated--in a shared room at the god-awful Hoa Lo Prison. This was from 1967 until 1973. The downed American pilots amusingly called the place the Hanoi...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- France holds Comoros rebel leader amid angry protests
- MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte AFP — Comorans staged angry anti-French protests Thursday as France decided whether to give ousted rebel leader Mohamed Bacar asylum after he fled to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte. Bacar was to be flown from Mayotte to another French possession, Reunion, on Thursday and could face...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- African forces invade rebel Comoros island
- MUTSAMUDU, Comoros AFP — A coalition of Comoran and African Union troops on Tuesday invaded the rebel Comoran island of Anjouan battling to win control from a renegade president. The 1,400 coalition of federal troops with soldiers from Tanzania and Sudan quickly took Mustamudu, the island's capital and main...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- AU troops arrive on Comoros island in invasion build-up
- FOMBONI, Comoros AFP — More than 500 African Union troops arrived on the Comoros island of Moheli on Saturday to join local forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel island of Anjouan. The Indian Ocean archipelago -- between Madagascar and Mozambique -- did not recognise the...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Red Cross, Amnesty paint grim picture of post-invasion Iraq
- GENEVA AFP — Five years after the US-led invasion, Iraq faces a major humanitarian crisis, with law and order and economic recovery a distant prospect, international aid and human rights groups said Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross highlighted the plight of millions of Iraqis who still...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Red Cross slams 'critical' situation in post-invasion Iraq
- GENEVA AFP — The humanitarian situation in post-war Iraq five years after the US-led invasion is one of the most critical in the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report late Sunday. Millions in the country had no access to drinking water, sanitation or...
- Research articles 2008-03-16
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