Trump wants a deal for Ukraine’s natural resources as ‘payback’ in exchange for aid stopping Russia attack: envoy
Ukraine is home to roughly 5% of the world’s mineral resources, with rich deposits of titanium, uranium, iron, manganese and ...
War-ravaged landmarks in Iraq’s Mosul are reopening after UNESCO-led restoration project
A UNESCO-led project is restoring historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul, including the Al-Hadbaa Minaret and key churches, after ...
Bill would rename Sakonnet River Bridge in honor of Tiverton soldier killed in Iraq War
More than a dozen veterans and their family members showed up at a Thursday hearing of the Rhode Island House Committee on ...
'Sesame Street in Iraq': USAID's 'wasteful and dangerous' spending exposed by senator
Sen. Joni Ernst published a list of USAID funding projects across the years, including pottery classes in Morocco and a ...
Portraits of Iraq War veterans makes ‘Someone Will Remember Us’ unforgettable
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Testimony’s ambitious sister. That’s what the late South African Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu ...
History Suggests That Addressing Kurdish Demands Is Essential to Peace in the Middle East
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Exclusive: BP poised to invest up to $25 billion in Iraq’s Kirkuk oil and gas
Oil major BP is expected to spend up to $25 billion over the lifetime of a project to redevelop four Kirkuk oil and gas ...
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Drone attack targets gas field in northern Iraq
On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...
Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...
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The Iraq War Was the Conflict No One Prepared For
And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...
Iraq's top court suspends new legislation that activists say undermines women's rights
Iraq’s top court suspended implementation of three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament, including amendments to a legislation that activists said would undermine women’s r ...