Iraqi and US forces continue to airdrop humanitarian supplies, including food and medicine, and the ill and injured are being evacuated. This action continues in cooperation with the Federal Government of Iraq. He lauded the support of the Iraqi President Dr. Fuad Masoum and Iraqi Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Babakir Zebari. However, Dr. Nouri Osman Sinjari highlighted insufficient response by the Iraqi government in meeting the emergency needs of the displaced people who fled to the Kurdistan Region. The Region is host to 1.4 million displaced people from center-south Iraq, including 70,000 Christians and 300,000 Yezidis from Nineveh Governorate, and more than 200,000 refugees from Syria.With the Federal Government of Iraq suspending funding to the Kurdistan Region since January, meeting the emergency needs of this exceptionally high number of displaced people has been particularly difficult. Despite the formation of a national committee to assist displaced people, headed by Iraqi ...

Baghdad says it will dismantle Turkey if it invades Iraq after Ankara deploys tanks and heavy artillery on its border. On Tuesday, Turkish military sources announced that a convoy of around 30 tanks and artillery has been deployed to the countrys southeastern town of Silopi, located on the border with Iraq. Turkeys Defense Minister Fikri Isik said the measures were part of Ankaras preparation for important developments in the region. Turkey is preparing in advance for whatever happens (and) this is one element of that, he noted. Photos provided by the sources showed a long column of vehicles, including tanks, tank rescue vehicles, and construction vehicles in single file on a dual carriageway. Following the remarks, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned Ankara over provoking confrontation with Baghdad. The invasion of Iraq will lead to Turkey being dismantled, said Abadi. We do not want war with Turkey, and we do not want a confrontation with Turkey… But if a confrontation happens, we

This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the National Blood Transfusion Center during the period from the 1st of November 2005 through November 2006. The of the study was to assess the Knowledge of a sample of donors and non-donors attending the National Blood Transfusion Center in Baghdad regarding the information about blood donation. A total of 500 individuals were interviewed, 292 were donors and 208 were non-donors. Data were collected using specially designed questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of thirty questions assessing the knowledge regarding blood donation. Regarding the total scores of the answers; only 7 (2.4%) of donors but none of non-donors, had got good scores (,75%). Most of donors and non-donors got medium scores (56.8%) and (53.4%) respectively. While 119 (40.8%) of donors and 97 (46.6%) of the non-donors got poor scores (,50%). This study suggested that there is great deficiency in the basic knowledge of the Iraqi population regarding blood donation among doth ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned on Thursday that cholera has spread the border from Iraq to Iran. Cholera, which is continuing to spread within Iraq, can be carried by refugees and pilgrims, and through normal trade, even closing borders wont stop the germ. Iraq shares borders with Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Some 60,000 Iraqis flee their homes each month and 2.2 million Iraqis have crossed into neighboring countries, mainly Syria and Jordan, according to the United Nations. It highlighted the need for Iraqs neighboring countries to boost their defences against the deadly disease.Countries affected should stock up on intravenous fluids and oral rehydration salts to combat dehydration in victims.The UN agency said it did not recommend any travel or trade restrictions on Iraq.. Cholera has struck at least 3,315 people in Iraq since mid-August, killing at least 15. According to WHO global cholera coordinator Claire-Lise Chaignat, up to 10 cases have also been ...

If there is to be an intact Iraq and a Syria (that has now become an open question) both countries will require political solutions. This means that US policy needs to be aimed at non-sectarian democratic pluralism within revamped constitutional frameworks. President Obama stated as much for Iraq, but he needs to be equally as forceful toward Syria. Washington must understand that the civil war in Iraq has both a connection to Syria and a distinct al Maliki cause as well. The Sunni communities in both Syria and Iraq feel aggrieved, and rightly so. But the US needs to have some skin in the game. Air power could go a long way toward convincing Assad and the Iranians that resupply routes over Iraqi airspace have now become off-limits. The same is true for an indiscriminate bombing of Sunni area cities and towns. Meanwhile that same air power could be used against the most extreme elements of the Sunni Jihadist spearhead. In the final analysis, the Baghdad government and elements of the Syrian ...

20 June 2012 - The Security Council today urged the Governments of Iraq and Kuwait to step up their engagement with the United Nations envoy helping the two countries resolve issues pending from Iraqs 1990 invasion, including finding Kuwaiti or third-country nationals.. The members of the Security Council welcomed the continued cooperation of the Governments of Iraq and Kuwait, and their high-level commitments to full implementation of all Iraqi obligations to Kuwait under the relevant resolutions, the Council said in a statement issued to the press following a closed-door meeting.. The Council was briefed by Ambassador Gennady Tarasov, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons High-Level Coordinator for the issue of missing Kuwait and third-country nationals and property, on Mr. Bans latest report on the issue.. The members of the Security Council recognised the proactive efforts on the part of Iraq in the search for missing Kuwaiti and third country nationals but stressed the need for Iraq to ...

Amman, 7 April 2014- Polio vaccination campaigns have commenced in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, aiming to reach more than 20 million children over five days.. For Iraq, this will be the first nationwide vaccination campaign since a case of polio was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on 30 March in a six-month-old boy from Rusafa, northern Baghdad.. The recent detection of a polio case in Iraq after a 14-year absence is a reminder of the risk currently facing children throughout the region, said Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. It is now even more imperative to boost routine immunisations to reach every child multiple times and do whatever we can to vaccinate children we could not reach in previous rounds. Thats the only way we will prevent this outbreak from spreading further.. The current vaccination rounds are part of a comprehensive response to the announcement, in October 2013, that wild poliovirus of Pakistani origin had found its way to Syria. ...

Foreign minister Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari met the head of Romanian Senate Mr. Kalin Popescuta Riciano in Bucharest, to discuss the bilateral relations between both countries and developing it in different fields.. We look forward to broader and deeper relations between our two countries, HE said. Romania can play a role in the reconstruction of Iraqi infrastructure in Iraq has been exposed.. Dr. Al-Jaafari stressed on that Iraq was able to get out of its political isolation and get membership of 16 international organizations thanks to its foreign policy and laying bridges with the countries of the world. He called on Mr. Kalin Popescuta Riciano to visit Baghdad in the framework of strengthening relations between the two countries.. from his side, the President of Romanian Senate expressed his admiration for the victory of the Iraqi forces against the terrorist gangs, which returned this victory an important step in the path of stability of the region; and the terrorist challenges in Iraq and ...

Amman, Jordan - Maki al-Nazzal, a 57-year-old Iraqi from Fallujah, returned to Amman a week ago from a visit to his home city in Iraq. Having lived in Jordan since 2007, Nazzal, like most refugees, wants nothing more than to return to his home country.. He had returned to test the waters, after having to flee in 2007 under threat to his life from having been first an outspoken critic of the US occupation of Iraq, and more recently having been critical of the regime of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.. When you tell the truth about what is happening in Iraq, this puts you in danger, Nazzal, a political analyst who has frequently appeared on television, told Al Jazeera. After two of my sons were arrested in Fallujah, I left Iraq. I had no choice but to leave.. Nazzal, like so many Iraqis in Amman today, struggles financially. Having no home in Amman, and little if any work, he struggles to get by.. According to UNHCR figures, there are currently 450,000 Iraqis in Jordan.. But what there ...

Rockets hit base hosting US forces near BaghdadUS forces in Iraq come under attackThe Syrian State Broadcasting Agency reported that a Turkish Air Force drone attacked a position of the Syrian Democratic Forces near the city of Qamishli, in the Hasakah province. Israel Bombs Syria For Defending ItselfIsraeli helicopters strike...

Over the coming days, and as a result of Coalition and NATO planning, some of our people will be moved temporarily from Iraq to Kuwait, Vance said. Simply put, we are doing this to ensure their safety and security.. As a result of the movement of soldiers to Kuwait, some troops leave and rotation from their tours will be interrupted, Vance said.. Up to 250 of the Canadian soldiers in Iraq are there as part of a NATO-organized mission led by Canadian commanders that is training Iraqi soldiers. The non-NATO troops in Iraq are stationed there as part of a Canadian mission thats linked to preventing ISIS from restoring a strengthened presence in the region. As well as Kuwait and Iraq, Canada also has soldiers in Jordan, Lebanon and Qatar for that purpose.. NATOs training mission was suspended over the weekend to ensure that its soldiers would remain safe.. After holding an emergency meeting with the alliances planning body on Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said training would ...

Earlier, the Prime Minister of Iraq, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the country, Adel Abdel Mahdi, signed a directive according to which restrictions on the use of Iraqi airspace during military operations are introduced for all Iraqi and foreign parties. This decision followed a series of incidents with explosions on the territory of the countrys military facilities, which, according to Arab media, are the Israeli Air Force. Currently, about 5,200 US troops are in Iraq as part of the anti-terrorist mission Unshakable Determination to combat IS. The majority of elected Iraqi legislators have been seeking out a course to see the end of US military presence in Iraq, which has carried on for the duration of three US presidential administrations beginning with Bush. Former US president Obama campaigned on a promise to end the US occupation of Iraq, but did not carry this out ...

It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters.--New York Times, April 13.. ``Youd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale. -- British archaeologist Eleanor Robson, New York Times, April 16. Well, not really. Turns out the Iraqi National Museum lost not 170,000 treasures, but 33. Baghdad Bob was more accurate. Youd have to go back centuries, say, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find mendacity on this scale.. What happened? The source of the lie, Director General of Research and Study of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities Donny George, now says (Washington Post, June 9) that he originally told the media that ``there were 170,000 pieces in the entire museum collection. Not 170,000 pieces stolen. No, no, no. That would be every single object we have! Of course, George saw the story of the stolen 170,000 museum pieces go around the world and said ...

2004 Dec 8, In Iraq gunmen attacked the police headquarters in Samarra, killing an Iraqi policemen and a child who was caught in the cross fire. Insurgents detonated a car bomb in southern Baghdad, causing an unspecified number of casualties. 18 young Iraqi Shiites, aged 14-20, were shot and killed while seeking work at a U.S. base near Mosul. Their bodies were discovered Jan 5. Dale Stoffel, an American arms dealer and contractor, was killed along with Joe Wemple. Before Stoffel was shot dead in Baghdad, he had told of corruption and payoffs to senior military officers in the country s reconstruction program. Stoffel and Wemple were reported to have been working on a $40 million dollar project in Iraq for a military facility in Taji which involved the arming of the 1st Iraqi Armored Brigade. Insurgents from the Brigades of the Islamic Jihad claimed they were responsible for the murder. However, the murders remain uninvestigated and unsolved ...

DAMASCUS †For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the US authorities after the 2003 invasion.. Now she is an impoverished refugee living in a Damascus slum, along with thousands of her compatriots.. Fluent in English, Jibouri worked at an assistance centre set up by the US occupation authority, helping former political prisoners who opposed Saddam Hussein and coordinating with scores of civic groups that formed after the invasion.. I never felt I was working for the occupation. I was proud that I was helping Iraqis of all sects, said Jibouri, a Sunni who belongs to one of Iraqs largest Arab tribes. With the United States pouring billions of dollars into reconstruction, she was earning far more than in the Saddam era, when UN sanctions choked the economy and the dinar collapsed.. But two years into her job, Jibouri began getting threats from anti-US Sunni rebels who warned her to quit. Undeterred, she sent her three children ...

The researchers searched casualty records from the Department of Defense Trauma Registry for the years 2005 to 2009. The analysis included detailed information on combat-related spine trauma among soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.. Spinal injuries were present in 872 out of 7,877 casualties analyzed -- a rate of 11.1 percent. Fractures accounted for more than 80 percent of spinal injuries. Three-fourths of spinal injuries were caused by explosions and about 15 percent by gunshot wounds. About three percent of personnel with spinal injuries died after receiving medical care. (The study did not include those who died before receiving medical care.). Overall, spinal trauma occurred at a rate of 4.4 injuries per 10,000 service members deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, including a 4.0 per 10,000 rate of spinal fractures. By comparison, the anticipated rate of injuries to the limbs was about 15 per 10,000 personnel.. Spinal injuries were more likely to occur in Afghanistan than Iraq, and in ...

The primary objective of CSP #595, Respiratory Health and Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, is to assess the association of airborne exposures encountered during deployment with current measures of respiratory health among U.S. military Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.. The purpose of the pilot study is to assess the feasibility and approach to conducting a large, multi-site Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) initiative to characterize the impact of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the respiratory health of Veterans. The investigators will (a) determine the most efficient and feasible method for recruitment; (b) understand demographic, health-related, and military service-related factors influencing participation so that potential biases can be identified; and (c) demonstrate that the proposed individual exposure reconstruction techniques based on deployment history are feasible.. Three aims are proposed: Aim 1: Using the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Manpower Data ...

US-Syrian relations have continued to improve over the two weeks that I was on vacation. A second US military delegation visited Damascus to work on implementing agreements on Iraq security and intelligence sharing. Doubtlessly there will be hiccups in this process. American will want quick compliance and its requests met in full; Syria will hold back information and access until it is satisfied that its demands, particularly on the economic front, are being met. Economic demands are the most easy for the US to deliver on. Even then, US diplomats will claim that congress, the pro-Israel lobby, and old-think, stand in the way of change.. Al-Maliki, upset that the United States has taken it upon itself to negotiate over Iraqs security with another country, followed the Americans to Damascus. Iraq is still complaining about the infiltration of Arab and foreign terrorists into Iraq, said Ali al-Moussawi, an adviser to al-Maliki. As the US pulls out of Iraq, Baghdad authorities are beginning to ...

Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nations security forces, Human Rights Watch said Monday.. Interviews with doctors indicate hundreds of men had been killed, but the exact number was unclear because of the stigma associated with homosexuality in Iraq, the New York-based watchdog group said in its report. Iraqs leaders are supposed to defend all Iraqis, not abandon them to armed agents of hate, said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. Turning a blind eye to torture and murder threatens the rights and life of every Iraqi. Iraqi officials acknowledged that the nations culture stigmatizes homosexuality, but said the government does not condone such attacks. Authorities are unable to provide homosexuals with special protection, said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. According to Human Rights Watch, which is urging a government crackdown, attackers target people on the ...

Iraq reported its last case of indigenous wild poliovirus in 2000, but suffered an outbreak in 2014, related to a strain isolated in Syria. The outbreak was successfully bought to a close, with the second and final case of the outbreak reported in April 2014.. While IPV introduction marks promising progress for Iraq, more work needs to be done. Routine immunization coverage has fallen over the last few years, from a high of 80% in 2011 to an estimate 63% in 2014. Surveillance for Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) - one of the signs of polio - remains strong nationally, but gaps persist in areas of the country.. The introduction of IPV in routine immunization is a huge success for Iraq and will help to secure a world in which no child is ever again paralysed by polio. ...

Background: Retroperitoneal heamorrahge is an acute surgical condition that is associated with difficulty of diagnosis, organ injuries and mortality. Materials and Methods: One hundred and two patients with traumatic retroperitoneal hematoma treated in Al Yarmuk teaching hospital from May 2012 to January 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. The data include patients age, type of injury, presenting symptoms, associated injuries and common site of hematoma. Results: In 102 patients, 69 were males (67.6%) and 33 were females (32.3%), mean age of 22 years. The comments presenting symptoms was pain (85.2%), followed by tenderness (73.5%) and shock (58.8%). Around 38.2% were injured by blunt trauma and 61.8% by penetrating trauma. The large bowel was the most common affected organ 26.4%, spleen and kidneys were the second affected organ (23.5%) while the jejunum and ileum were the third associated organs to be affected (14.7%). The commonest complication was septicemia, followed by wound infection. The least

Al-Masri - which means the Egyptian - is another foreign fighter who trained in Afghanistan like Zarqawi, coalition officials said. No one knows his real name. The terrorist is said to be about 38 years old and got his beginning in Egypt, where he joined the Islamic Brotherhood. He fled from Egypt and moved to Afghanistan, where he trained in explosives at the al-Faruq Al Qaeda camp. There he met Zarqawi, officials said. After the fall of the Taliban, Masri escaped to Iraq and set up with the Jordanian-born Zarqawi. The Egyptian specialized in vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices. He helped establish the Baghdad cell of Al Qaeda in early 2003, officials said. Later he worked the rat line down the Euphrates River Valley supplying suicide bombers via Syria. Officials said he probably directed that operation from Fallujah. ...

Via the Associated Press: UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter…

Last Mission: Establishing The Rule of Law In Iraq The last and possibly most important mission for the United States military before it departs Iraq is to establish stability and promote the rule of law. In The Last Mission: Establishing the Rule of Law in Iraq, West Virginia Public Broadcasting producer Chip Hitchcock follows a West Virginia Military Police battalion as it helps to transform the Iraqi police from a force that once served a brutal dictator into one that serves the people and the law. Will eight years of war, more than $700 billion, the sacrifice of thousands of lives and the work of more than a million Americans create a stable democracy in Iraq? Hitchcock (Bridgeport to Baghdad) investigates these questions in his latest documentary, taped while he was embedded with the West Virginia National Guards 151st Military Police Battalion. D ...

Deputy curator Mohsen Hassan sits amidst the wreckage in the National Museum. [Source: Getty Images / Salon]The New York Times reports that in the four days of looting in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities (see April 9, 2003 and After April 9, 2003), the National Museum of Iraq has been almost completely pillaged. Over 170,000 artifacts have been stolen or destroyed from the museum, which once boasted an irreplaceable collection of artifacts from Mesopotamia dating back as far as 7,000 years. The Times reports that archaeologists and specialists once regarded the museum as perhaps the richest of all such institutions in the Middle East. Only today have museum curators and government officials been able to start cataloguing the losses, as the waves of looting have begun to ebb, and fires set in dozens of government buildings begun to burn themselves out. While some treasures may have been stored in safes and vaults, the 28 galleries of the museum, and the museums main storage vaults, have been ...

What is the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum and who is behind it? The Kurdistan Anarchist Forum is an internet forum for discussions, debate and analysis among Libertarians & Anarchists on topical subjects, matters and questions against capitalism. It is a place to consider and criticise past experiences & methods of the Socialist movement that have failed, in an attempt to find alternatives. It is an open door for any libertarian s voice, it is a voice of those who believe in Freedom, equality and social justice. In short, the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum (KAF) is a bridge to reach and to get closer to all libertarian individuals and groups . Anarkismo.net is an anarchist publishing project composed of groups who agree with the Anarkismo statement Anarkismo.net is a international anarchist-communist news service

What is the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum and who is behind it? The Kurdistan Anarchist Forum is an internet forum for discussions, debate and analysis among Libertarians & Anarchists on topical subjects, matters and questions against capitalism. It is a place to consider and criticise past experiences & methods of the Socialist movement that have failed, in an attempt to find alternatives. It is an open door for any libertarian s voice, it is a voice of those who believe in Freedom, equality and social justice. In short, the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum (KAF) is a bridge to reach and to get closer to all libertarian individuals and groups . Anarkismo.net is an anarchist publishing project composed of groups who agree with the Anarkismo statement Anarkismo.net is a international anarchist-communist news service

Iraqs oil ministry initialed a deal with Kuwait Energy-led group to explore for gas and oil at an exploration block in southern Iraq, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said.

A chartered flight has arrived in Erbil carrying urgent relief items for WFP and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees fleeing violence in Syria and crossing into northern Iraq. ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Measures of psychophysiological arousal among resettled traumatized Iraqi refugees seeking psychological treatment. AU - Slewa-Younan, Shameran. AU - Chippendale, Kerenze. AU - Heriseanu, Andreea. AU - Lujic, Sanja. AU - Atto, John. AU - Raphael, Beverley. PY - 2012/6. Y1 - 2012/6. N2 - Resettled refugees living in Western countries frequently report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. This study sought to measure levels of physiological arousal in a group of resettled Iraqi refugees in Australia receiving psychological treatment. A continuous recording of electrocardiogram (ECG) data was used to examine baseline heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) in refugees (n = 25) and healthy age‐ and sex‐matched controls (n = 23). Descriptively, PTSD (48%) was the most commonly noted disorder followed equally by major depressive episode (36%) and dysthymia (36%) in the refugees. Examination of the physiological data indicated that the refugee ...

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section. G.S.G.S. no. 1522a. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights. Some sheets from this set were revised and issued by War Office. Geographical Section. General Staff, published as G.S.G.S. no. 1522, 1522a. Series covers Mesopotamia and eastern Anatolian parts of Ottoman Empire. Compiled for the Geographical Section, General Staff, by Lieut. Colonel F.R. Maunsell, C.M.G. [from] surveys in Lower Mesopotamia by Sir W. Willcoks, 1909-11, Survey of the river Tigris, Busra to Baghdad, No. 4,700 I. Simla,1909, Journey from Baghdad to Kerbela & Nejef, Capt. H. Smyth I.A., 1903 ...

Academic Experiences:. I have taught many subjects (1987-2007) such as: Electrical Circuits ,Electronics, Digital Electronics, Mathematics and Numerical Computations, Automatic Control for undergraduate students. Soft Computing(Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic ,and Genetic Algorithm), Modern Control, Digital Control, Optimal Control, Satellite Attitude Control), Advanced Numerical Analysis, Robotics and Automation for postgraduate students . These subjects had been given in the following faculties:. - University Of Technology.. - University Of Baghdad.. - Military Engineering College.. - Nahrain University.. - Dohuk University. Research Activities:. - More than 50 published papers.. - Two books in Arabic language.. - Chapter in a Book, 2012.. - Building a Wired Lan-Based Mobile Vehicle Interface. Lambert Academic Publishing 2014. Postgraduate Supervision :. a- M.Sc. Projects:. I have supervised successfully the following postgraduate students as :. 1. Combined Guidance System for SAM , MEC ...

World War 1 Postal History of Middle East British and Imperial Forces Fighting German and Turkish Forces in North Africa, Sinai, Palestine.and Mesopotamia.

AnnaFDD, the Red Crescent isnt being allowed in Iraq because some of their ambulances carried PLO people/stuff over borders.. They apparently are in Iraq, they just tried to carry a convoy of various stuff to Fallujah. After a bit of searching around, I came to the conclusion that they are the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, working together with the International Red Cross Commitee and the International Red Cross Something Else. I doubt they are all that popular with the guys currently running the show there right now, but they do exist, and they seem to be able to carry aid where others cant. I know the International Red Cross itself is scaling back its operations in Iraq - like almost everybody else - because its just too dangerous. MSF withdrew. The Italian Red Cross is still there, despite being I think restricted to Baghdad - poor Enrico Baldoni was with one of their convoys when he was kidnapped. Still, the Italian Red Cross is a military organization and works with the Italian Army who is ...

Because of its immediate social significance, medieval sources provide a wealth of information on the theory and practice of Arabic medicine. In addition to numerous medical treatises, many sources also shed light on the lives of scientists, the professional medical communities, the social practice of medicine, the various healing institutions, and the regulation of the medical profession. Both the area and the period in which the Arabic medical tradition evolved are immense. In the ninth century Baghdad was the dominant center for the production of the Arabic medical tradition. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, however, many regional centers competed with Baghdad. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Syria emerged as the leading center in medical activities. During this period many medical institutions were built there, and a large number of physicians traveled from all over the Muslim world to seek employment in its institutions.. A shared Hellenistic medical legacy accounts for the ...

Many Iraqi refugees who fled to Syria following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 once again fear for their future as the uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad continues. More than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since unrest began in March 2011, according to the United Nations, as street protests have met with violence from the regime. Um Nur, an Iraqi refugee who has lived in Syria since 2007, said her family no longer felt safe in Syria.

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Baghdad Iraqi Journal Pharmaceutical Sciences by bijps is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at bijps.uobaghdad.edu.iq. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at bijps.uobaghdad.edu.iq. Copyrights© 2015 College of Pharmacy - University of Baghdad. ...

FOXNEWS) Staff Sgt. Moses Scarberry was a former high-school football player who could easily run seven-minute miles when he joined the military in 2001.. After convoys through sandstorms and exposure to trash burning in open pits during a tour each in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has changed. In a recent physical-fitness test, he couldnt complete a mile run without stopping to walk. I felt like I was breathing through a plastic bag, said the 30-year-old military policeman with the West Virginia Army National Guard.. As another Veterans Day nears, lung problems have proved to be a persistent concern for those who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military is struggling with how to address the phenomenon. Now, the Department of Defense is reviewing its policy of not requiring mandatory lung tests for troops amid growing outside pressure to take a harder look at what two wars in perennially dusty, sometimes toxic climates have done to soldiers lungs and how to better handle these ...

If there is one thing that the Middle East has an abundance of (besides oil), it would be conflicts. We start our weekly update with a visit to two of these conflict zones: Iraq and Syria.. A recent the survey on the number of people killed in Iraq, the first since 2006, has found that nearly half a million people have died due to the war, though not all deaths are a direct result of violence. Around 40% of those deaths were due to poor healthcare and sanitation, as well as infrastructure failures, which have increased since the US-led invasion of Iraq. Baghdad was the worst hit with violence, but even though the news tend to report most about explosive cars and suicide bombs, gunshots were responsible for 63% of the war-related violent deaths - more than three times those killed by bombs and explosives actually.. In neighbouring Syria, the ongoing civil war is creating a healthcare crisis across the country. Many doctors have fled in fear for their lives, leaving inexperienced doctors - and ...

Iraq is not merely issuing blustery allegations with no basis in fact. Iraq is virtually bankrupt and deeply in debt to both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which funded Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, as well as other nations such as the US and Japan. Hussein has spent billions rebuilding his military and distributing massive amounts of consumer goods to the populace in an attempt to persuade them that Iraq won the war against Iran and is now able to spend its war dividends. In 1999, Kuwait defied the quotas laid down by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and increased its oil production by 40%. The subsequent sharp drop in oil prices drove Iraqs economy towards catastrophe. The situation is further aggravated by Iraqi suspicions that Kuwait is deliberately slant-drilling oil from Iraqs Rumaylah oil field (see July 15-17, 1990). Hussein needs a massive infusion of revenue to maintain his large standing army and the fiction of economic growth, and he looks to Kuwait as the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - Abul Waleed rifled through a pile of papers, considering the latest accusations against the elite brigade of Iraqi police commandos he leads from a dusty fortress.. The complaints against the Wolf Brigade were the usual: excessive force, renegade patrols, kidnapping, murder. The charges came from Iraqs most powerful Sunni Muslim leaders, and Abul Waleed clearly relished reading them. Its precisely this take-no-prisoners reputation thats made his Wolf Brigade the most feared and revered of all of Iraqs nascent security forces.. The Muslim Scholars Association? Theyre infidels, Abul Waleed said, tossing his detractors complaints into the wastebasket. The Islamic Party? Humph. More like the Fascist Party.. No matter how many complaints about heavy-handedness pile up on Abul Waleeds desk, theres no changing the fact that the Wolf Brigade rules public opinion in a country desperate for Iraqi heroes. With their televised humiliation of terror suspects and their ...

Erbil International Airport is the main airport in the Kurdistan District of the city of Erbil, Iraq. It is administered by the Iraqi Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government under a committee composed of the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Masrour Barzani, and is one of the two international airports, the other being Sulaymaniyah Airport. The new modern airport was opened in 2010. The airport is among the longest runways in the world (4800 m). ...

Background: Thyroid function test results of healthy pregnant women differ from those of healthy non-pregnant women. This study aimed to determine trimester-specific reference ranges for total tetraiodothyronin (T4), free T4, total triiodothyronin (T3) and thyroid stimulation hormone (TSH) using electrochemiluminescence techniques from apparently healthy pregnant women in Basrah. Material and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted between January 2014 and June 2015. The total enrolled pregnant women were 893. Clinical examination, estimation of free T4, total T4, total T3, TSH, and anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) using electrochemiluminescence technique done for each. Results: Trimester specific normal range of TSH in μIU/mL was 0.04-3.77, 0.30-3.21 and 0.60-4.50 μIU/mL respectively, for each trimester. For FreeT4, the trimester specific reference range was 0.8-1.53, 0.7-1.20 and 0.7-1.20 ng/dL for each trimester, respectively. The reference range for total T4 for the first, second and

Believe it or not, but as many as 50 veterans form the Iraq war have started to show up at homeless shelters around the country. That s not even the most disturbing thing. Up to one sixth of returning vets may suffer form post traumatic stress disorder. With 1 million troops having served in Iraq or Afghanistan (300,000 more than once) this could be a huge problem ...

The euphoria of a soldiers homecoming from Iraq often gives way to depression, stress and trouble dealing with family members during the first months home, a new Pentagon study finds.. And the adjustment struggle was more profound for National Guard troops and reservists than it was for active-duty soldiers.. About 42 percent of the Guard and reserves, compared to 20 percent of active-duty troops, were identified as needing mental health treatment in two screenings. The first testing was immediately upon return from Iraq and the second six months later.. Problems showed up more often on the second screening. From the time they returned, there was a fourfold increase in interpersonal problems, for example, likely driven by family conflicts as the returning soldiers adjusted to home life.. Almost a third of the more than 88,000 returning soldiers in the study had signs of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, conflicts in relationships or other problems after six months.. That compared to ...

Abstract: President Bush asserts that U.S. military action against Iraq was justified because Saddam Hussein was in material breach of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. But even if Iraq was in violation of a UN resolution, the U.S. military does not exist to enforce UN mandates. It exists to defend the United States: its territorial integrity and national sovereignty, the population, and the liberties that underlie the American way of life. So whether Iraq was in violation of Resolution 1441 is irrelevant. The real question is whether Iraq represented a direct and imminent threat to the United States that could not otherwise be deterred. If that was the case, then preemptive self-defense, like Israels military action against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq in the 1967 Six Day War, would have been warranted. And if Iraq was not a threat, especially in terms of aiding and abetting Al Qaeda, then the United States fought a needless war against a phantom menace ...

British commission reviewing intelligence used by Prime Min Tony Blair in making case for war in Iraq reaffirms assertion that Saddam Hussein sought uranium from Africa; Senate Intelligence Committee report says French official told State Dept in late 2002 that France believed Hussein had sought uranium from Niger; new reports raise questions about one of Bush administration chief critics on issue; points out that Wilsons official report on visit to Niger confirmed Iraqs interest in buying uranium; Bush administration is quietly pleased about reports (M)

ISIS, in any case, has made its terror-blitzkrieg gains in Iraq based on a long-sighted strategy that hasnt really begun in Jordan. The ISIS victories were prepared for, months or even years ago, with tribal and/or terrorist associates in the Iraqi cities themselves, who have been in place for some time, ready to mount terror campaigns against the local regime authorities from within. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, has been working on these preparations since he was released from the al-Bucca detention facility in 2009. His vision appeared to expand and solidify as a more personal, state-oriented vision when Syria was plunged into civil war in 2011. That was three years ago, and it has taken him until 2014 to prepare the battle space for the current campaign in Iraq ...

Baghdad * Iraq. Iraqi poet Ali Habash was born in Baghdad 1965 and started publishing his works in 1985. His poems have appeared in all Iraqi and Arab newspapers. His first book of poetry ( Years without Reason)was issued in 2001 in Tunis. His poetry has been translated into French. He is a journalist for Al Khaleej newspaper in The United Arab Emirates and is featured in the film Voices in Wartime.. ...

e) New mobile facilities. UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.6: Iraq has [..] developed mobile laboratories for military use, corroborating earlier reports about the mobile production of biological warfare agents. UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.18: There was intelligence that Iraq was starting to produce biological warfare agents in mobile production facilities. Planning for the project had begun in 1995 under Dr Rihab Taha, known to have been a central player in the pre-Gulf War programme.. CIA, October 2002, p.17: UNSCOM uncovered a document on Iraqi Military Industrial Commission letterhead indicating that Iraq was interested in developing mobile fermentation units, and an Iraqi scientist admitted to UN inspectors that Iraq was trying to move in the direction of mobile BW production.. CIA, October 2002, p.2: Baghdad has established a large-scale, redundant, and concealed BW agent production capability, which includes mobile facilities; these facilities can evade detection, are highly ...

Providing humanitarian access and ensuring accountability for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law are obligations grounded in international law. They are not only moral imperatives but also legal requirements, as was clearly recalled in the report of the Internal Review Panel on the United Nations Action in Sri Lanka. The United Nations and Member States should make concerted efforts to ensure that protection of civilians integrates in a complementary and mutually reinforcing manner humanitarian access and full respect for norms of international human rights, humanitarian, and refugee laws. In a recent joint statement, USG Amos and I urged all parties to the conflict in Syria to allow humanitarian organizations safe access to all people in need. Today, I renew my call to the Syrian Government to grant representatives from my Office and the Commission of Inquiry on Syria full access to the country ...

Yesterday, Google celebrated another renowned scientist from the Islamic Golden Age of Science with his own doodle, though this time it was only available in Arab countries Google portals instead of internationally.. Nasir al-Din Tusi is one of the most famous Persian scientists, dwelling on matters ranging from astronomy and mathematics to biology, chemistry, physics and medicine.. Born on the 18th of February, 1201, in what is now modern-day Iran, Tusi lived for 73 years and wrote over 150 book on the different subjects he studied such as trigonometry, astronomy, philosophy and even mysticism. He died in 1274 in Baghdad.. Tusi is most known for his contribution to astronomy, after convincing Hulegu, the Mongol chief responsible for sacking Baghdad whom he had to join after he won, to build an observatory to study the stars. This was probably the most advanced observatory of its time, and Tusi used it to create the most accurate tables to calculate planetary movements back then and determine ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Anthropologists at War. T2 - Ethnographic intelligence and counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. AU - Perugini, Nicola. PY - 2008. Y1 - 2008. N2 - This article reconstructs the stages of the creation of the Human Terrain System, the civil-military program born from the interaction between anthropologists, army, military institutions, contractors and political actors of the American administrations with the aim of a better cultural knowledge of the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through the analysis of the articles published - mainly in military reviews - by some of the anthropologist and social/human sciences experts who are involved in the program, I intend to illuminate their theoretical assumptions, the conceptions of the applicability of anthropology and social sciences they claim, and the ideological foundations that pushed these figures to claim the necessity of a new approach and relation between civil knowledge, military knowledge and governmental-political ...

This has not always meant the use of force. In 1973, when OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, used substantial price increases and an oil boycott in an attempt to force Washington to influence Israel into withdrawing from its recently occupied territories, the United States did not launch, or even threaten, an invasion. The matter was resolved through extensive diplomacy without a shot being fired. What saved the OPEC states from a violent fate may have been the combination of the Vietnam war still hanging heavy in the air in Washington, and the Nixon administration on the verge of being swallowed up by Watergate.. In addition to issuing several dire warnings early on about the invasions severe economic consequences for the United States, which never came to pass, Bush warned of an even worse fate if Iraq took over Saudi Arabia. The danger-to-Saudi Arabia explanation was a non-starter. Iraq never had any designs on Saudi Arabia, as a simple look at a map makes clear. The Iraqis have a long border with ...

Videos published by the Amaq news agency show artillery exploding over Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria that analysts believe could be white phosphorus rounds. Amaq, which often publishes information provided by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sources, claims that the areas which are shown being bombarded are ISIS-held sectors of the cities still populated by large numbers of civilians.. One video was posted on June 4, showing a daytime barrage on what is said to be the Zanjiji district of western Mosul. An ISIS flag is flying at the top of one of some multistory buildings in the foreground of the area being bombarded. The artillery shells explode in the fashion of white phosphorus munitions, igniting fires.. A second video, dated June 8, shows several explosions, again consistent with white phosphorus shells, over the surrounded ISIS capital of Raqqa. The artillery also appears to immediately trigger intense fires.. Many militaries around the world still use white phosphorus munitions, ...

Many service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have difficulties adjusting back to civilian life. Research shows that symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are particularly high in returning Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans, and that combat-related nightmares and sleep disturbances are common in veterans with PTSD. This is of concern because people with these problems will often use unhealthy ways of coping. Although combat-related nightmares and difficulty sleeping are highly distressing, there are helpful treatments that do not involve taking medication. One of these treatments teaches specific skills to help people improve their sleep habits and to change their nightmares so that they are less upsetting. This treatment can be very helpful and research shows that people experience decreases in the frequency and severity of their nightmares, decreased symptoms of depression and PTSD, and improved sleep quality and quantity after ...

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation -. Russia is resuming flights with Spain, Iraq, Kenya and Slovakia. Following the discussion and taking into account the epidemiological situation in individual countries, members of the emergency response center decided to resume regular flights on 21 September 2021 with the following countries on a reciprocal basis:. - Iraq (Moscow - Baghdad, 2 flights per week). - Spain (Moscow - Madrid and Moscow - Barcelona, ​​4 flights per week on each route; Moscow - Malaga and Moscow - Alicante, 2 flights per week on each route). - Kenya (Moscow - Nairobi, 2 flights per week). - Slovakia (Moscow - Bratislava, 4 flights per week; St Petersburg - Bratislava, 2 flights per week).. It was also decided to increase the number of regular flights from 21 September with the following countries on a reciprocal basis:. - Egypt (Moscow - Hurghada and Moscow - Sharm el-Sheikh, 15-25 flights per week on each route; 1-3 flights per week on each route from points of ...

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At least nine people who were part of a hunting group kidnapped in southern Iraq managed to escape and have now crossed into Kuwait, police and media said on Thursday.. A large group of unidentified armed men abducted at least 26 Qataris from their desert hunting camp near the Saudi border in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said.. Some of the hunters, at least nine, managed to escape the camp and the kidnappers failed to spot them, Iraqi police colonel Ali Mutaiwit told Reuters on Thursday.. Other Asian men were left in the camp by the gunmen … The hunters and the Asians were sent by authorities to Kuwait through the Safwan border crossing, but there was still no information on the location of the others, he added.. Al-Jazeera Arabics website said seven Qataris, a Saudi, a Kuwaiti and a number of Asian nationals had crossed into Kuwait. There was no immediate information on their condition.. ...

By Maher Chmaytelli and Dominic Evans. BAGHDAD, Nov 3 - With Iraqi troops battling inside Daeshs Iraqi bastion of Mosul, the militants leader told his followers to fight to the death in what he said was a war against Shiite Islam, Western crusaders and the Sunni apostate countries Turkey and Saudi Arabia.. Expressing confidence in victory, despite the broad alliance of Iraqi and international forces arrayed against a few thousand Daesh fighters in Mosul, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on the jihadists to wreak havoc.. He also urged them to target Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslim regional powers he said had entered the war against Daesh.. This raging battle and total war, and the great jihad that the state of Islam is fighting today only increases our firm belief, God willing, and our conviction that all this is a prelude to victory, Baghdadi said in an audio recording released online by supporters on Thursday.. Iraqi regular troops and special forces, Shiite militias, Kurdish ...

Last Stand? The Criminal Responsibility of War Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder THOMAS L. HAFEMEISTER * & NICOLE A. STOCKEY ** INTRODUCTION I. OVERVIEW

OBJECTIVES. To perform the first direct comparison of the facial injuries sustained and treatment performed at USA and UK deployed medical treatment facilities (MTFs) in support of the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.. SETTING. The US and UK Joint Theatre Trauma Registries were scrutinised for all patients with facial injuries presenting alive to a UK or US deployed MTF between 1 March 2003 and 31 October 2011.. PARTICIPANTS. US and UK military personnel, local police, local military and civilians.. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES. An adjusted multiple logistic regression model was performed using tracheostomy as the primary dependent outcome variable and treatment in a US MTF, US or UK military, mandible fracture and treatment of mandible fracture as independent secondary variables.. RESULTS. Facial injuries were identified in 16 944 casualties, with the most common being those to skin/muscle (64%), bone fractures (36%), inner/middle ear (28%) and intraoral damage (11%). ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is restricting flights over Persian Gulf airspace in response to Iranian airstrikes that targeted two bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops Wednesday.

It is Irans nuclear ambitions that represent a crisis to the whole word, not just the Middle East. Obamas policy was even more misguided and wrongheaded than Bushs. And it will haunt us for decades to come.. Both in Iraq and Syria, as well as Afghanistan, we can see that simple regime change doesnt really change a thing. In fact, it more often than not has unintended consequences.. You might think America would have learned this lesson after Vietnam - an even more costly war that was fought without defining victory.. But we didnt - at least the politicians never figured it out.. Its time for the U.S. to stop trying to be the policeman of the world. While policemen can be effective at arresting bad guys, they cant be expected to change peoples hearts and minds. And in the Middle East - in fact worldwide - conflicts and human rights abuses are problems caused by warped hearts and minds.. Military force should only be used to kill bad people and break things with overwhelming power. ...

The newspaper Al-Arab (The Arabs) was first published in Baghdad on July 4, 1917, some four months after British troops captured the city from the Turks, thereby ending three centuries of Ottoman rule. The paper appeared at a critical period in the history of Iraq. Issued by the British authorities, it served as a mouthpiece for the British administration at a time of rising Iraqi and Arab nationalism. It depicted the Ottomans as foreigners and the British as liberators and sought to advance broader British military and political strategy against the Ottomans in World War I. The title, masthead (which declared the paper

The newspaper Al-Arab (The Arabs) was first published in Baghdad on July 4, 1917, some four months after British troops captured the city from the Turks, thereby ending three centuries of Ottoman rule. The paper appeared at a critical period in the history of Iraq. Issued by the British authorities, it served as a mouthpiece for the British administration at a time of rising Iraqi and Arab nationalism. It depicted the Ottomans as foreigners and the British as liberators and sought to advance broader British military and political strategy against the Ottomans in World War I. The title, masthead (which declared the paper

Qassem Soleimanis assassination in an American attack at Baghdad airport, on US President Donald Trumps orders, could be a prelude to a full-scale war between the US and Iran despite the reluctance of both sides to enter into direct confrontation.. As commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force since 1998, Soleimani was the mastermind behind Irans regional strategy and in charge of its foreign military operations as well as those of its allies and proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. One of his major achievements was to help the Assad regime regain control of much of Syria from opposing forces that were supported by several outside powers including the United States.. His assassination is a dramatic escalation in the ongoing US-Iran confrontation. Former US vice-president Joe Biden, now a Democrat aspirant for the presidency, said of Soleimanis assassination that President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.. Most experts believe that the ...

A personal log on my experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait 2005-2015. I am on a telecommunications project in various places in SouthWest Asia. I enjoy to hear from my readers, please feel free to comment or email. [email protected] The views expressed in this blog are my personal views and do not in any way constitute official Masonic positions, policies or endorsements. . ...

The new Fortress of Government sealed off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq.. Some 25,000 National Guard members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake invasion that never came. D.C. had become a Baghdad and Berlin of checkpoints, choking off access to much of the city, closing roads, bridges, and metro stations. Soldiers could be seen on every corner, and the 25,000 troops were bolstered by 4,000 Marshalls, and a motley crew of local forces, including 200 members of the NYPD, 40 members of the Chicago police, New Jersey and Maryland state troopers, Miami-Dade cops, and other law enforcement officers who were needed back home.. ...

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the Shock and Awe US invasion of Iraq. The ravages of that invasion continue at home and in Iraq, the US is still at war in Afghanistan (troops and contractors remain in Iraq) and unofficially waging war on countries like Pakistan and Yemen, is aggravating aggression with North Korea as part of an Asian pivot encircling China, is putting more military into Africa and Obama is in Israel where he sings a duet for war with Netanyahu against Syria and Iran. Meanwhile, poverty, unemployment and homelessness continue to grow in the US with threats of austerity for everything except the national security state.. When we occupied Freedom Plaza in October, 2011, we made the connection between US Empire and the corporate control of our political process, between unlimited military spending and cuts to necessary domestic programs. We understood the misreporting in the corporate media about the Iraq War. Kathy Kelly from Voices for Creative Nonviolence was in ...

Iraq announced Sunday that an agreement has been reached with Iran, Russia and Syria to cooperate against the Islamic State through an intelligence committee to be based in Baghdad. Saad al-Hadithi, the spokesman for Iraqi Prime Ministers office, who made Read more. ...

Hydrogen cyanide is usually included among the CW agents causing general poisoning. There is no confirmed information on this substance being used in chemical warfare. However, it has been reported that hydrogen cyanide was used by Iraq in the war against Iran and against the Kurds in northern Iraq during the 1980s. Hydrogen cyanide has high toxicity and in sufficient concentrations it rapidly leads to death. During the Second World War, a form of hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) was used in the Nazi gas chambers. At room temperature, hydrogen cyanide is a colourless liquid which boils at 26 oC. The most important route of poisoning is through inhalation. Both gaseous and liquid hydrogen cyanide, as well as cyanide salts in solution, can also be taken up through the skin. Its high volatility probably makes hydrogen cyanide difficult to use in warfare since there are problems in achieving sufficiently high concentrations outdoors. On the other hand, the concentration of hydrogen cyanide may rapidly ...

The Army has gone civilian in a South Florida hospital that is providing training for Army medical professionals and producing exemplary surgical teams to provide lifesaving care for injured soldiers in the chaotic battlefield of the Iraq War. The meticulously-prepared forward surgical teams consisting of Army Surgeons Registered Nurses Anesthetists ...

By Babak Dehghanpisheh. BEIRUT (Reuters) - A week after U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a blistering speech about Irans Revolutionary Guards, the most powerful military and economic force in the Islamic Republic has shown it has no intention of curbing its activities in the Middle East.. In defiance of other world powers, Trump chose in a speech last Friday not to certify that Tehran is complying with a pact to curb Irans nuclear work and singled out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing Tehran of destabilizing the region.. A senior IRGC commander said after the speech Trump was acting crazy and was following U.S. strategy of increasing the shadow of war in the region.. Irans Shiite militia proxies have made formidable military gains in recent months in Syria as well as Iraq, stretching from northern Iraq to a string of smaller cities and this week, after the Trump speech, re-captured the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.. In the short-run clearly Trump has increased the ...

Amy: Iraq is a horrible killing field. During Gulf War I in 1991, the U.S. military used 350 tons of uranium weaponry in Iraq. This likely explains why 325,000 Gulf War I vets are now on permanent medical disability. Then, in 2003 when the U.S. invaded Iraq again, both the Pentagon and the United Nations admitted that coalition forces used another 2,200 tons in March and April of that year alone. So, at that point, Iraq--only 2/3 the size of Texas--was drenched in 2,500 tons of radioactive waste. According to calculations by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, thats enough radiation to generate over 20 million new cancers, or a case of cancer for about every citizen in Iraq. But the war and occupation have been roaring on for an additional two years and no one has yet calculated how many additional tons have been used against the insurgency and the civilian population since the invasion. Wherever our troops fight rebellious Iraqis, they use uranium weaponry, contaminating themselves and ...

Since April 2008, five more U.S. military women have died in Iraq-three in noncombat-related incidents. Ninety-nine U.S., six British and one Ukrainian military women and 13 U.S. female civilians have been killed in Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as probably hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and girls. Of the 99 U.S. military women, 64 were in the Army active component, nine in the Army National Guard, seven in the Army Reserve, seven in the Marine Corps, nine in the Navy and three in the Air Force. According to the Department of Defense, 41 of the 99 U.S. military women who have been killed in Iraq died in noncombat-related incidents. Of the 99 U.S. military women killed in the Iraq theater, 41 were women of color (21 African-Americans, 16 Latinas, three of Asian-Pacific descent and one Native American-data compiled from the Web site http://www.nooniefortin.com/ ...

First big whopper which torpedoes Cohens credibility, because it is an easy fact to check: Half of Israels Jewish population is Arab Jews, not European Jews. How come there are Arab Jews? Because they were there before the Muslims came, or before Arabs became Muslim. In fact, they were the Jews before various historical events scattered and exiled some of them, one destination being Europe. (And yes, European Jews and Arab Jews are all Jews. The tracing of Ashkenazi Jewry from their origins in Judea are clear, their holy language, religious rituals, liturgy, and even genetic markers are the same, all dating back to where Israel is now, and they all regard each other as Jews and always have. So lets not even start with that particular nonsense.). The earliest verifiably Jewish artifacts in Israel date to 1500 years before it was conquered by Islam. Historical documents verify that Jews were in Persia 1000 years before it was conquered by Islam, in Babylonia (later Iraq) 1000 years before it ...

The Kurds, who share ethnic and cultural similarities with Iranians and are mostly Muslim by religion (largely Sunni but with many minorities), have long struggled for self-determination. After World War I, their lands were divided up between Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. In Iran, though there have been small separatist movements, Kurds are mostly subjected to the same repressive treatment as everyone else (though they also face Persian and Shiite chauvinism, and a number of Kurdish political prisoners were recently executed). The situation is worse in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, where the Kurds are a minority people subjected to ethnically targeted violations of human rights. Iraq: In 1986-89, Saddam Hussein conducted a genocidal campaign in which tens of thousands were murdered and thousands of Kurdish villages destroyed, including by bombing and chemical warfare. After the first Gulf War, the UN sought to establish a safe haven in parts of Kurdistan, and the United States and UK set up a ...

The Kurds, who share ethnic and cultural similarities with Iranians and are mostly Muslim by religion (largely Sunni but with many minorities), have long struggled for self-determination. After World War I, their lands were divided up between Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. In Iran, though there have been small separatist movements, Kurds are mostly subjected to the same repressive treatment as everyone else (though they also face Persian and Shiite chauvinism, and a number of Kurdish political prisoners were recently executed). The situation is worse in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, where the Kurds are a minority people subjected to ethnically targeted violations of human rights. Iraq: In 1986-89, Saddam Hussein conducted a genocidal campaign in which tens of thousands were murdered and thousands of Kurdish villages destroyed, including by bombing and chemical warfare. After the first Gulf War, the UN sought to establish a safe haven in parts of Kurdistan, and the United States and UK set up a ...

War has displaced millions in Iraq, creating the largest refugee problem in the Middle East since 1948. As they flee their country, are they taking the war with them?

The complaint being considered by the ICC presents evidence of the systematic use of brutal violence, that at times resulted in the death of detainees, while in the custody of UK Services Personnel. And it claims there is evidence of brutality combined with cruelty and forms of sadism, including sexual abuse, and sexual and religious humiliation. It points to the widespread use of hooding, forcing people to remain in painful stress positions, sleep deprivation, noise bombardment and deprivation of food and water. These interrogation techniques were used by British soldiers in Northern Ireland before being banned in 1972. There are clear patterns of the banned techniques being used in a variety of different UK facilities [in Iraq] ... from 2003 to 2008, says the complaint. And evidence suggests that failures to follow-up on or ensure accountability for ending such practices became a cause of further abuse. The obvious conclusion is that such mistreatment was systematic ...

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) will be hosting aA film screening that underlines that suffering of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq wich will sum up the events of the fourth Palestine Memorial Week which will start from 19th-25th Jan 2013, and be the formal launching pad for International Balfour Campaign, which

gis substation station tif in IraqFeb 22, 1998 · The recently completed 400 kV gas insulated switchgear (GIS) substation at Aqaba on Jordans Red Sea coast is the first part of the EJIST interconnection project that will eventually link the power systems of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

Unless someone lives off the grid completely cut off from the world, most people have heard or seen the rise of ISIS (al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyya fī al-`Irāq wā al-Shām). ISIS, or, ISIL is an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/Levant and is a self-proclaimed state straddling parts of Syria, Iraq and has even gained headway into Turkey. It is infamous for its barbaric practices, exploitation of women and children, as well as, its gross misinterpretation and application of so-called Islamic law. This post focuses on the 10 most important questions and answers students will have regarding ISIS. Note that this post is geared toward kids/teens and a full fledged refutation on the proofs ISIS uses to justify its actions would warrant a separate post and additional research.. 1. Who is ISIS and where did they come from?. ISIS is a self-declared Islamic country that took over parts of Iraq and Syria. Iraq and Syria are two countries in the Middle East with overwhelming Muslim populations. ...

IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani said in an October 7, 2019 speech at an IRGC command conference that Iran has created territorial continuity for the Islamic resistance by connecting itself to Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. The speech aired on Channel 1 TV (Iran).

This is the gateway to resources, research, and analysis the Combating Terrorism Center has produced over the last decade about the Islamic State, also referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and Da`ish, and its predecessor groups (al-Tawhid wa-al-Jihad, al-Qa`ida in Mesopotamia (AQI), Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin, Hilf al-Muttayibin and the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)).. Additional CTC research and analysis about factors shaping the conflict in Iraq and Syria is also included. These resources contextualize the development of the Islamic State. Resources are organized into five categories: major reports, CTC Sentinel articles, CTC Perspectives, CTC commentary about the early development of AQI, and declassified primary sources produced by AQI, ISI, and other militant groups in Iraq.. ...