• That month, the Iraqi Oil Ministry held the second auction for several petroleum fields across the country. (blogspot.com)
  • After the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, a number of failed Iraqi peace initiatives were revealed. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 29 September 1998, the United States Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act supporting the efforts of Iraqi opposition groups to remove Saddam Hussein from office. (wikipedia.org)
  • During late 2002 and into 2003, the United States government continued to call for "regime change" in Iraq and threatened to use military force to overthrow the Iraqi government unless Iraq rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction (WMD) it supposedly possessed and convinced the UN that it had done so. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mohammedi is one of about 200 Iraqi refugees living in a lawless swath of desert between the borders of Jordan and Iraq. (go.com)
  • Civilians remained the targets of attacks by Sunni and Shia armed groups across the country, though the number of such attacks fell after the US and Iraqi security offensive ("surge") in 2007. (hrw.org)
  • For the situation of the largest Iraqi refugee population, and of Palestinians fleeing Iraq and stuck at the Syrian border, see Syria chapter. (hrw.org)
  • When the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel U.S. troops last month-out of anger at the brazen strike that killed an Iranian general in Iraq without its government's approval-Trump vowed not to leave at all, and threatened sanctions if forced to do so. (defenseone.com)
  • Obama withdrew troops from Iraq in 2011, unable to secure a new agreement with the Iraqi government to keep them there longer. (defenseone.com)
  • In May 1941, Iraqi fascists backed by popular support tried to overthrow the pro-Western monarchy and seize British oil fields in Iraq to facilitate the oil-dependent German advance east to Russia. (tikkun.org)
  • They were just one family among the tens of thousands of Iraqi Arabs, mostly Shiites, who fled Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's brutal crackdown on southern Iraq's rebellions in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War. (unhcr.org)
  • Exhibit A for those terrified by the specter of the Baath's return was the meeting, set up in April by the Damascus-based branch of the Iraqi Baath Party, of groups opposed to the current order in Iraq. (nybooks.com)
  • The President and I just had a great conversation about the future of Iraq -- he can speak for himself, but I came away that I'm talking to a man who has got great confidence in the Iraqi people's capacity to self-govern and a great belief in the fact that it's going to happen. (archives.gov)
  • It will give the Iraqi people a chance to become invested in the future of that vital country. (archives.gov)
  • We see that our enemy is an enemy that has only a short time because they have no roots in the Iraqi society, they have no ideology that they can sell to Iraq or the whole world. (archives.gov)
  • We in Iraq, the whole Iraqi society are willing to participate in elections. (archives.gov)
  • Upwards of 17,000 military personnel and private security contractors will remain in Iraq to guard diplomatic personnel, continue training Iraqi forces, maintain 'situational awareness' and other functions. (thedailybell.com)
  • Lahib Higel, a senior analyst for Iraq at the International Crisis Group, said in the short term, the Iraqi groups allied with Iran and Hamas are not likely to open a new front in the war, but that could change if the Hamas-Israel war escalates or becomes protracted. (whnt.com)
  • Under the previous administration we had turned over the country to a sovereign, Democratically elected Iraqi government. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • A senior Iranian official has confirmed his country carried out air strikes in neighboring Iraq against Islamic State (IS) militants at the request of the Iraqi government, Britain's 'The Guardian' newspaper reported. (rferl.org)
  • Militants led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have taken control of large swaths of northern Iraq, with the Iraqi military looking increasingly incapable of stopping them. (yougov.co.uk)
  • a founding member of the Iraqi Forum for Democracy, who is an activist on various humanitarian issues relating to Iraq. (back-to-iraq.com)
  • Meanwhile, thousands of Iraqi anti-government protesters call on both Iran and America to leave the country. (truthdig.com)
  • Iraq is under occupation and the current rivalry between what are indeed Iraqi factions has to be interpreted within this context. (counterpunch.org)
  • Citing "exceptional circumstances," the Iraqi Foreign Ministry issued a statement calling on its citizens in Ukraine to leave the country and to avoid traveling there. (turkishpress.com)
  • The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the start of the Second Gulf War induced a stream of various countermeasures against Iraq, one of the principal being different forms of economic sanctions. (lu.se)
  • Security gains in 2008 did little to ease Iraq's crisis of displacement, with about 2.8 million Iraqis displaced within the country and another 2 million abroad, mainly in Syria and Jordan. (hrw.org)
  • many Iraqis attributed the reduced level of violence in Iraq to the halt in the militia's armed activities in 2007 following bloody clashes with rival Shiite forces. (hrw.org)
  • Iraqis are taking the lead in rooting out ISIS militants and there is growing annoyance across the country over Iran's interference. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • And on Iraq, if I could ask a little bit more, how can Iraqis feel secure about going to the polls on January 30th when there is so much violence and bloodshed? (archives.gov)
  • On the contrary, the administration fully intends to keep troops in Iraq, indefinitely, under a new agreement, while the Iraqis are doing their best to assert their sovereignty and kick us out. (thedailybell.com)
  • Iraqis hold a mass rally supporting the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Baghdad, Iraq. (wtrf.com)
  • The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were - a majority of Iraqis did not want US troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • But this time the protests have been led by a different generation of Iraqis, those born in the 21st century, who have grown up with Justin Bieber and Facebook and in a country that was controlled by the US military for a large part of their youth. (juancole.com)
  • The UN agency estimates that up to 50,000 Iraqis are fleeing each month and that 3.8 million people have already left Iraq since the United States toppled Hussein four years ago. (rferl.org)
  • How about an announcement that, having removed Saddam (whom we leave to your legal system, dear Iraqis) and proven the non-existence of WMDs, we've done what we set out to do, and will be departing? (lewrockwell.com)
  • He disputes the argument that when the American troops leave, that Iraq will gain stability and thus the reason we are leaving is because it is actually better for the Iraqis. (pacificviews.org)
  • Such wishful thinking (reminiscent of the sweets-and-flowers variety that preceded the war) would have pernicious consequences, as the United States fails to anticipate one disaster after another in the wake of its departure: ethnic cleansing on a large scale, refugees pouring across Iraq s borders, incursions by neighboring armies, and the slaughter of Iraqis who had joined the American project. (pacificviews.org)
  • And so he believes that one thing we really have to start talking about is how to save as many Iraqis as we can now before we leave. (pacificviews.org)
  • When you read enough about the facts on the ground in Iraq, it is clear that many millions of Iraqis will be left in the inferno created by our policies. (pacificviews.org)
  • If the United States leaves Iraq, our last shred of honor and decency will require us to save as many of these Iraqis as possible. (pacificviews.org)
  • Iraqis who want to come to the United States must make their way across dangerous territory to a neighboring country that has a U.S. Embassy with a consular section. (pacificviews.org)
  • Leaving aside Kurdistan, where roughly a quarter of all Iraqis live, Iraq is a shattered country. (antiwar.com)
  • Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, Barack Obama predicted yesterday Congress will not directly challenge President Bush's plan, will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number of troops deployed. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • So if the Democrats do win the White House, whoever it is, I can't wait to see the implosion that's going to happen on the left when the troops don't come out of there. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • As of mid-November 2008, Iraq's parliament was preparing to vote on a security agreement with the US to govern the presence of foreign troops when the UN Security Council mandate for the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF) expired at the end of 2008. (hrw.org)
  • Thus, when he took a hastily organized trip to Iraq that month, he started talking about bringing troops home-from Syria. (defenseone.com)
  • The troops are coming home and the country is being turned over to the Afghanis, even if those Afghanis ultimately end up being the Taliban. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • The "not combat troops, just advisors" sleight of hand is what the United States always pulls when it wants to sound like it isn't occupying a country even though it is. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • It is not too often I am pleased by the foreign policy announcements from this administration, but last week's announcement that the war in Iraq was in its final stage and all the troops may be home for Christmas did sound promising. (thedailybell.com)
  • While I applaud the spirit of this announcement - since all our troops should come home from overseas - I have strong reservations about any actual improvements in the situation in Iraq, since plans are already being made to increase the number of troops in surrounding regions. (thedailybell.com)
  • Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling out all ground troops from Iraq? (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq, because - hint, hint - he did. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • So, Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq, and does it give you pause as the US is doing the same thing in Afghanistan? (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • When you hear people say, "Do you regret, Mr. President, not leaving more troops? (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • With U.S. combat troops out, the country remains fragile. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Additionally, there is broad support for the decision by Western countries to withdraw troops from Iraq. (yougov.co.uk)
  • While most British troops left the country in 2009, Americans forces remained until 2011. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Three-quarters oppose sending troops to Iraq, and 51% oppose providing military air support. (yougov.co.uk)
  • US President Barack Obama - whose opposition to 2003 Iraq invasion was a centrepiece to his first presidential campaign - has refused to rule out intervention, while insisting no American troops would be sent back into Iraq. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Should US call Iraq's bluff and pull troops out of country? (foxnews.com)
  • Sen. Rand Paul says if Iraq wants U.S. troops out, we should call their bluff and leave. (foxnews.com)
  • Additional U.S. troops have been flown out of Iraq for closer evaluation of potential concussion injuries from the Iranian missile attack of Jan. 8, U.S. defense officials said Tuesday. (foxnews.com)
  • Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, they lived in a different refugee camp about 90 miles from Baghdad. (go.com)
  • The rationale that Biden offers up today is that America must stay in Iraq to help guard against the Islamic State, which is attempting to regroup and which recently claimed credit for the worst bombing in Baghdad in six months. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • As Sunni insurgents march towards Baghdad, a senior Shia cleric in Iraq has issued a call to arms, threatening to push the country deeper into chaos and bloodshed. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Baghdad (AsiaNews) Care International halted all its activities in Iraq after Margaret Hassan, head of its local charity operations, was seized in Baghdad yesterday morning. (asianews.it)
  • In 2003, when the Iraq war began, Jamal and his family were living in the heart of Baghdad. (kpbs.org)
  • Maria, a Christian woman in Baghdad, has faced post-invasion harassment and is desperate to leave the country. (newint.org)
  • The president's resistance to withdrawing from the country boils down to three of his main enemies: ISIS, Iran, and Obama. (defenseone.com)
  • Why, given Trump's statements that he's defeated ISIS, has he not used the supposed victory to get out of Iraq as well as Syria? (defenseone.com)
  • To the extent that Trump cares about Iraq at all, the answer that emerges from conversations with current and former officials and advisers boils down to three of Trump's main enemies: ISIS, Barack Obama, and Iran. (defenseone.com)
  • I'm convinced that he hasn't made any pronouncements about getting out of Iraq because he knows full well that ISIS can reemerge. (defenseone.com)
  • Trump, he said, is sensitive to what happened when his predecessor left Iraq and ISIS rose from the remnants of the war many Americans had thought was over. (defenseone.com)
  • Iraq was forced to invite the U.S. military back to fight ISIS, which in the summer of 2014 was threatening genocide against the Yazidis and beheading hostages, including Americans. (defenseone.com)
  • By 2016, Trump was convinced of two things: ISIS was Obama's fault, and the U.S. had to stay in Iraq to fight it. (defenseone.com)
  • But Trump, despite his private and public complaints about the expense, did not promise to withdraw from Iraq, the central staging ground for the U.S. counter-ISIS fight. (defenseone.com)
  • Furthermore, Keane said, "it's the U.S. military leaders in Iraq that actually run the U.S. coalition war against ISIS in Syria, so we're managing Syria and Iraq from Iraq. (defenseone.com)
  • it could not fight ISIS without Iraq. (defenseone.com)
  • So the first time he was ready to declare victory against ISIS, back in December 2018, when the group was still clinging to its last scraps of territory, Trump may have spotted a double political benefit: He could announce what looked like a big troop withdrawal and claim to end the war in one country, while also vowing to keep ISIS down. (defenseone.com)
  • After years of occupation, civil war and the fight against the insurgent ISIS, successive U.S.-backed governments of Iraq have been unable to meet the basic needs of citizens, particularly the poor, some of whom have resorted to camping in overfilled dumps to make a meager living sorting waste. (truthout.org)
  • Iraq might not be rescuable without the U.S. dealing with Syria, since the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has already erased part of the border between the two countries. (truthdig.com)
  • If ISIS zealots were defeated in Iraq, they could simply retreat to their Syrian bases and come back another day. (truthdig.com)
  • OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to compare care-seeking patterns in Mosul, Iraq, in 2018, 1 y after Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) control, with findings from neighborhoods that had been sampled in 2017. (bvsalud.org)
  • That was the first time a corporation decided to leave Iraq's oil and gas fields. (blogspot.com)
  • Iraq's military launched offensives against insurgent and militia forces in various parts of the country. (hrw.org)
  • In this, they are encouraged by Iraq's neighbors, as well as the United States, all of whom worry about what might happen if, at this sensitive stage in the country's development, one party is left out and turns again to insurgency, setting off a new round of civil war with unpredictable consequences for the region. (nybooks.com)
  • A co-founder of Nature Iraq and leading environmental expert, Al-Asadi is a vocal defender of Iraq's southern marshlands and the Marsh Arab tribes who lived in them for generations. (truthout.org)
  • Both Albright and Holbrooke belabored the point that Iraq is an "artificial" country, a product of British colonialism, and as soon as Saddam Hussein was toppled, the US would face the sectarianism and racism supposedly inherent in Iraq's composition (it must be noted that the assertion of Iraq's artificiality is simplistic). (counterpunch.org)
  • Whereas the American Left was citing Iraq's diversity as a point of weakness, it has traditionally been a matter of strength. (counterpunch.org)
  • This camp, which lay in No Man's Land in the middle of the desert on Iraq's border with Syria was filled with Palestinians fleeing persecution after the Iraq War. (kpbs.org)
  • U.S. President Barack Obama has a delicate balance to strike in Tuesday's address to the nation on the subject of Iraq. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Most of the brutal slayings are attributed to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which remains distressingly effective despite losing three-fourths of its top leadership over the past year. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 20 March 2003, a multinational alliance containing the armed forces of the United States and United Kingdom launched an invasion of Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • The crisis, which may have been brewing for many months but has only reached the public eye in the last week, has many some observers raising new questions about the 2003 invasion of Iraq as well as the subsequent withdrawal of Western forces from the country. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Nearly half of them were displaced before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. (voanews.com)
  • The Washington Post has hired Michael Gerson -- who as President Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001-2005 crafted the false and misleading rhetoric the Bush administration used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- to be an op-ed columnist. (mediamatters.org)
  • The Post editorial board repeated without question some of that false and misleading rhetoric in its support of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has passed up several opportunities to re-examine its support of the Bush administration's push for war. (mediamatters.org)
  • Gerson, as President Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001-2005, wrote or contributed to most of the administration's major speeches -- such as President Bush's State of the Union addresses and former Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5, 2003, speech to the United Nations -- and crafted the false and misleading rhetoric the Bush administration used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (mediamatters.org)
  • The Post editorial board repeated without question some of that false and misleading rhetoric in its support of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and its continued justification for that support. (mediamatters.org)
  • Military operations by the MNF continued against insurgents throughout the country, and continued also to cause civilian casualties. (hrw.org)
  • Keep Saudi Arabia from exporting insurgents into Iraq. (alextimes.com)
  • Negotiate with Iran to stop the flow of arms and insurgents into Iraq. (alextimes.com)
  • Since the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq had been restricted by the United Nations (UN) from developing or possessing such weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1991 the United States attacked Iraq in force with the support of 35 countries, some members of NATO, and other outsiders. (lewrockwell.com)
  • It is present in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf war where it provides emergency aid as well as health and water treatment assistance. (asianews.it)
  • YouGov has tracked public opinion about the war in Iraq going back to the beginning of Western involvement there, and the latest polling suggests fewer British people believe in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 than ever before. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Let me call your attention to the observations made by our darling Kate a couple of threads below (a post on the Iraq War etc. by Joe): We may have had some fine reasons to invade Iraq, but, as some of our NLT interlocuters sometimes remind us, we have reasons to invade lots of countries. (ashbrook.org)
  • As soon it was clear that the Bush administration was going to invade Iraq back in 2002, the voices of the mainstream Left were busy insuring that the option to break up Iraq was firmly embedded in American discourse rabout the war. (counterpunch.org)
  • Russia has denied it is preparing to invade and accused Western countries of undermining its security by NATO's expansion toward its borders. (turkishpress.com)
  • Cairo, 24 May 2023 - Over 248 000 people have crossed the border from Sudan into neighbouring Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan, to flee the insecurity resulting from the fighting in the country and lack of access to health services due to repeated armed attacks on health facilities. (who.int)
  • President Donald Trump speaks at a hangar rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. (defenseone.com)
  • In February 2022, Kehlenbrink and colleagues published findings from a survey of 83 humanitarian crises areas in 27 countries in 2018 conducted by a consortium including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. (medscape.com)
  • An editorial -- headlined "Irrefutable" -- declared: "It is hard to imagine how anyone could doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. (mediamatters.org)
  • According to PIPA, 72 percent of Bush supporters believed that Iraq had actual "weapons of mass destruction" or a major program for developing them. (antiwar.com)
  • American forces will remain in Iraq, provide support, share intelligence-they just won't be actively leading the fight against foes like the Islamic State. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • Within three years, the Islamic State had ascended, blazed through Sunni-dominated western Iraq, and decapitated an American journalist on video. (theamericanconservative.com)
  • And getting us out of Iraq was gonna restore us as a whole nation, and we could party again, and we could get down, and we could get back to living as we did without the body counts and George Bush and Cheney and the news every day that America could be loved. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • However, as Media Matters for America has noted , the Post editorial board has had several opportunities to re-examine its own writing in support of the Bush administration's push for war with Iraq. (mediamatters.org)
  • The inability to talk about Iraq in an appropriate context has been one of the greatest setbacks to the anti-war movement here in the United States of America, and to describe Iraq solely in terms of being in civil war contributes to this problem. (counterpunch.org)
  • The militants also called on India, Kenya and Egypt - none of which are part of the US-led military coalition in Iraq - to withdraw their personnel. (bbc.co.uk)
  • All fled Iraq to escape persecution under Saddam's regime. (unhcr.org)
  • Normally, resettlement is only for those people who obviously flee a country for fear of persecution but who also cannot stay in a country of asylum, in this case, for example, Syria and Jordan," she said. (rferl.org)
  • Kurds have faced marginalization and persecution both in Syria and throughout the Middle East, where they are the fourth largest ethnic group, with sizable populations in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey 8 . (cdc.gov)
  • We urge all Kenyans in Iraq to leave at once and all those in neighbouring countries, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, to register with the Kenyan mission in Kuwait," Mr Mutua told a news conference in the capital, Nairobi. (bbc.co.uk)
  • We could still maintain a presence in the Middle East by bribing - er, negotiating - for bases in Iraq, to complement those we have in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Whereas Saudi Arabia and Iran have produced little more than sectarian ideologues, Iraq has always harbored a greater mosaic of intellectuals. (counterpunch.org)
  • In March, attacks on polio vaccination teams in Pakistan left 4 dead and one injured. (who.int)
  • These calls also tribution of the health workers on the teams in Pakistan left four people dead come from the UN Security Council, frontline should not go unrecognized. (who.int)
  • Thanks to GPEI and the tireless work of its current partners - the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and CDC - by 2005 polio was eliminated in all but four countries- Pakistan, Nigeria, India, and Afghanistan. (cdc.gov)
  • Since the EOC activation, CDC staff deployed have played essential roles in eliminating outbreaks that occurred in Somalia, Syria and Iraq, and continue to play key roles in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. (cdc.gov)
  • Interrupting poliovirus transmission in the remaining three endemic countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan), achieving quality surveillance necessary to document the absence of poliovirus, and continuing to innovate in ways that increase access to previously missed children are among the highest priorities in 2017. (cdc.gov)
  • There were additional attacks against police in Kut during the tragic Aug. 25 coordinated deadly attacks across the country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The result was tragic for Iraq which suffered enormous human losses, a heavy industrial and social retrocession as well as subsequent tragic sanctions. (lewrockwell.com)
  • The Syrian conflict, which began in 2011, has resulted in the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with millions of Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring countries including Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey 1 . (cdc.gov)
  • Syrian refugees have also fled to Europe, with many crossing the Mediterranean Sea in order to reach European Union-member nations, mainly Greece, then traveling north to countries such as Germany and Sweden. (cdc.gov)
  • Iranwire, which documents human rights abuses in Iran, said it had confirmed some 580 cases of blinding in Tehran and the province of Kurdistan alone, "but the actual numbers across the country are much higher. (rferl.org)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, the military analyst for the United States Department of Defense under Ronald Reagan, had formulated a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq and other "potential aggressor states", dismissing "containment" in favor of "preemption", with the goal of striking first to eliminate threats. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a very, very timely and important question asked of the most important person in the country you could ask it to, and this is the answer: The dirty little secret, Charles, is that if one of these Democrats becomes the chief executive in 2009, we're not leaving Iraq, and the military, whatever they tell President Clinton, will be what she goes by. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • The solutions in Iraq are no longer military. (alextimes.com)
  • This is not the fulfillment of a campaign promise, or because suddenly the training of their police and military is complete and Iraq is now safe and secure, but because of disagreements with the new government over a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). (thedailybell.com)
  • A U.S. defense official, who wasn't authorized to comment to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the attack on the al-Asad military base in western Iraq. (wtrf.com)
  • Private First Class Kimberly Rivera - a conscientious objector and pregnant mother of four - has just been sentenced to military prison for refusing to serve in the Iraq War. (democracynow.org)
  • Wheeler, who is still serving in the military, is clearly a country fan and loves the song. (tasteofcountry.com)
  • Images appearing to show Iranian military jets conducting air strikes in Iraq emerged last week. (rferl.org)
  • As the U.S. military operation in Iraq drags from worse to worst (it was bad at its best), the phrase 'exit strategy' is heard with increasing frequency. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Although many claim that Mr. Bush was planning military action against Iraq from the moment of his inauguration, we never hear of an 'entrance strategy,' although some say that the events of 911 provided a wonderful excuse for bringing such a strategy into the open, provided we overlook the fact that 911 had nothing to do with Iraq or Saddam. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Our military surely have access to press, radio, and TV in that country. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Thats why the military and political progress in Iraq seems to have been discounted by much of the public. (ashbrook.org)
  • The "Surge" is just one aspect of the new Iraq plan emerging as a result in the change in military leadership. (strata-sphere.com)
  • The overarching aim of the plan, which sets goals for the end of this year and the end of 2008, is more political than military: to negotiate settlements between warring factions in Iraq from the national level down to the local level. (strata-sphere.com)
  • Outbreaks of leishmaniasis have occurred among US military personnel training in Panama or serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. (msdmanuals.com)
  • About 1,100 of those Iranian Kurds fled Iraq right away. (go.com)
  • In January 2005, about 190 of these Kurds decided to leave Iraq for Jordan. (go.com)
  • Fa'ik's vision of a peaceful, open Iraq is discredited even as recently as 1995 when the Kurds in the north fought a vicious civil war. (back-to-iraq.com)
  • So much the better for the people of Iraq and the Kurds. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The violence moved to the country's south on Thursday where overnight clashes between Sadr-affiliated fighters and the rival Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq force left four militants dead. (gulfnews.com)
  • In 2011, India conquered poliovirus, leaving only three endemic countries. (cdc.gov)
  • People leaving Iraq, or moving elsewhere in the country, say they are doing so to escape threats to their lives from rival sectarian groups. (rferl.org)
  • With the infrastructures of Iraq absent, what once held up a sense of civic society is now being replaced with of a sectarian nature. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is seemed that referendum has badly divided the different entities of Iraq and sectarian divisions has further widened. (mediamonitors.net)
  • As Gerson's "smoking gun/mushroom cloud" soundbite took flight, Al Gore made an Iraq speech questioning "preemptive war. (mediamatters.org)
  • Ashraf's mother knows that the security situation in Iraq remains precarious. (unhcr.org)
  • Twenty years after a United States-led coalition invaded and occupied Iraq, the country is facing cascading environmental crises and was recently declared the fifth-most vulnerable country to climate disruption. (truthout.org)
  • The decolonization of Africa have emerged as a result of these icant impacts on demographically produced the first of that continent's new conflict-driven demographic dy- transitioned countries from Latin numerous refugee crises by the namics. (who.int)
  • BEIRUT (AP) - Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly bombing of a hospital in Gaza. (wtrf.com)
  • The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iranian-backed militias, issued a statement afterward claiming responsibility for the two attacks and saying it "heralds more operations" against the "American occupation. (wtrf.com)
  • Two officials with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the issue, confirmed the attacks on the two bases Wednesday. (whnt.com)
  • Attacks on health care workers and health facilities create shortages of qualified health staff, as health care workers leave with their families. (who.int)
  • As fighting has continued across the country, an increasing number of health facilities have been heavily damaged or destroyed by attacks, leaving thousands of Syrians without access to urgent and essential healthcare services 5 . (cdc.gov)
  • The oil-rich country has been ravaged by decades of conflict and endemic corruption. (gulfnews.com)
  • In countries where conflict is ongoing, the negative impact on access to health care has been enormous. (who.int)
  • In Iraq, more than 40% of the health workforce has left as a result of the conflict. (who.int)
  • The war drained the resources of both countries towards the point of bankruptcy, and for Iraq the immense foreign debt accumulated over the years to fund the conflict left the state in a deplorable financial situation at the end of hostilities. (lu.se)
  • ers reached an unprecedented high left as a result of the conflict. (who.int)
  • 2015). The scale and scope of the of conflict-affected countries (Coutts left Burundi during 2015-2017, 20% ongoing refugee crisis has exposed et al. (who.int)
  • However, given rise to critical skil s shortages, Libya have been able to pay out-of- academic discourse and foreign pol- insufficient capacity in health ser- pocket expenses for care, even ba- icy agendas on the conflict-affected vices, and poor health outcomes for sic treatment is unaffordable for most countries in the region frequently the populations (Mateen et al. (who.int)
  • Next, Statoil and Lukoil found that West Qurna was littered with old ordinance like mines and unexploded artillery shells from the Iran-Iraq War . (blogspot.com)
  • Iraq made extensive use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, including against its own Kurdish population. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, health care workers in many countries face challenging circumstances that pose a serious threat to their lives. (who.int)
  • Now that Saddam is gone, Roghay and Ashraf's families want to go back to their country. (unhcr.org)
  • But he says that with Saddam gone, it is now time to go back and help rebuild Iraq. (unhcr.org)
  • All three gave a litany of evils that Saddam had inflicted on the people of Iraq. (back-to-iraq.com)
  • The argument that Iraq would be better off on its own is a self-serving illusion that seems to offer Americans a win-win solution to a lose-lose problem. (pacificviews.org)
  • He has a number of friends and contacts in Iraq that would be the first to be slaughtered when Americans leave. (pacificviews.org)
  • Politicians such as Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, Ibrahim al-Jafaari or even the secularist Ahmed Chalabi had little to do with Iraq when they came in with the Americans, without possession of any practical representative power they all took recourse in the realm of abstract sectarianism. (counterpunch.org)
  • In the Dec. 16, 2004 issue of the New York Review of Books , Michael Massing surveys media coverage of Iraq and finds that, "while there was much informative reporting on the war, a number of factors combined to shield Americans from its most brutal realities. (antiwar.com)
  • Trump himself made this clear on the campaign trail in 2016, despite also lamenting the U.S. going into Iraq at all. (defenseone.com)
  • From 650 cases worldwide in 2011 to fewer than 40 cases in three countries to date in 2016, CDC and its partners have made significant global progress toward polio eradication. (cdc.gov)
  • This last is a loose grouping that includes the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the Sadrist movement, and a variety of smaller parties and independents, among them the US's erstwhile friend and current nemesis, Ahmed Chalabi. (nybooks.com)
  • conceived Team Bush's trademark paranoid "soundbite" warning of a potential Iraq nuclear program: "The first sign of a smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud. (mediamatters.org)
  • Despite Bush's protestations that he will never leave until Iraq has a democratic government, it is clear that he is irrelevant to matters in Iraq. (pacificviews.org)
  • Shortly thereafter, WHO activated its EOC in Geneva and GPEI, working with governments decided to develop EOCs in each of the remaining endemic countries. (cdc.gov)
  • They started saying, "You Palestinians lived comfortably in Iraq. (kpbs.org)
  • NEDAL: They told Palestinians to leave and that they didn't want us around. (kpbs.org)
  • TRIMLETT: Despite the deplorable conditions of the camps, the Palestinians could not leave. (kpbs.org)
  • They're not going to get them out of there before 2009 - and Bush brilliantly alluded to this last night when he talked about the role his successor is going to have here in continuing this policy to secure the defense of this country. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • PRESIDENT BUSH: And I look forward to achieving a common objective, which is an Iraq that is free and peaceful. (archives.gov)
  • I've been honored this morning to meet the President of the United States -- after all, we in Iraq are in debt for the United States for -- and the courageous leadership of President Bush of liberating Iraq from a dynasty, a villain. (archives.gov)
  • or upon the public disclosure of the Downing Street Memo, which indicated that the Bush administration was manipulating intelligence in order to justify war with Iraq. (mediamatters.org)
  • But the Post editorial page has resisted a re-examination of its coverage of the Bush administration's Iraq war claims. (mediamatters.org)
  • Query: Given the general aimlessness and cluelessness of the Bush administration, how would Bush and the GOP have fared in 2004 if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq? (ashbrook.org)
  • Couldn't the case be made that the Iraq war prolonged the 9/11 effect through an additional election cycle, to the benefit of Bush and the Republicans? (ashbrook.org)
  • Also, 75 percent of Bush supporters believed that Iraq was providing significant support to al-Qaeda, and 63 percent thought clear evidence had been found proving the linkage. (antiwar.com)
  • You have to at least give people a one-year break for every year served in Iraq,' Obama said. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • It'll send the clear message to the few people in Iraq that are trying to stop the march toward democracy that they cannot stop elections. (archives.gov)
  • In Iraq, these people are trying to kidnap people in streets and sell them from one gang to another. (archives.gov)
  • These evil people must leave the country. (wtrf.com)
  • Our brother bore no ill-will to the people of Iraq. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Folks, he got elected in large part because of that promise, because by the time he was elected the American people had been talked into hating everything about Iraq. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • As of June 12th-13th, only 23% of British people think the United States and Britain were right to go to Iraq, the lowest YouGov has ever recorded. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Today, people in southern Iraq still rely on the two famed rivers - and the marshy waterways they feed - for transportation and agriculture, but the water is increasingly polluted and drying up. (truthout.org)
  • International Organization for Migration says people in Iraq no longer are fleeing their homes to escape violence. (voanews.com)
  • Washington will also provide some $18 million to help with the larger problem of displaced people from Iraq. (rferl.org)
  • But he emphasized that much more is needed to deal with the increasing numbers of people leaving Iraq. (rferl.org)
  • Resettlement is for people who really are also persecuted in this place or have specific vulnerabilities, like sicknesses, that cannot be treated in that country or who need family reunification. (rferl.org)
  • Inside Iraq, the problem of people leaving their homes for other parts of the country is equally pressing. (rferl.org)
  • Over the past three weeks, the IOM says, 18,000 more people in Iraq have been internally displaced. (rferl.org)
  • Upon liberation there will be an end to the war that the Ba'ath party has been waging on the people of Iraq. (back-to-iraq.com)
  • It's nearly incomprehensible for people living in a modern, civilized society to fathom there are still countries where it's perfectly acceptable for a 40-year-old man to marry a 10-year-old girl. (sott.net)
  • George Packer, one of the liberal hawks, wrote in the New Yorker this month, that people advocating leaving Iraq ought to be realistic in what will be the likely consequences when we leave. (pacificviews.org)
  • People are even connecting the out-of-control gas prices with the lack of respect we now get from the oil producing countries, and, rightly or wongly, they conclude we're dissed because we haven't prevailed on the battlefield--a battle we need not have waged. (ashbrook.org)
  • This [Care] is a humanitarian organisation which has been serving the people of Iraq for 30 years. (asianews.it)
  • Hi Carl, It strikes me as odd that the same people who call for Kurdish statehood, or at least Kurdish-ruled provinces within Iraq, will then make the counter-argument against other ethnicities doing the same in Syria. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Syria's pre-war population of 22 million people has been reduced to approximately 17 million, with an estimated 5 million having fled the country 2 , 3 , and more than 6.5 million displaced within Syria 4 . (cdc.gov)
  • The refugees are stuck there because Jordan won't let them into the country. (go.com)
  • Only one road leads directly into the camp from Jordan and runs through to Iraq. (go.com)
  • Unless their governments extend the social protection schemes to include them, hundreds of millions of informal workers worldwide are facing high risks of poverty, food insecurity, and even hunger [9] , which may trigger the adoption of severe negative coping strategies that may take, in some countries, gendered forms such as child marriages or forced marriages. (lu.se)
  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, and Iraq on Saturday advised their nationals against traveling to Ukraine as tension continues to escalate between Russia and the West. (turkishpress.com)
  • The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry also called on its nationals in Ukraine to leave the country "to preserve their safety. (turkishpress.com)
  • Most children with diabetes and their mothers left Ukraine for neighboring countries such as Romania and Estonia, where they have been able to access supplies for the most part. (medscape.com)
  • Case studies from Ukraine, Liberia, and Iraq were included for a comprehensive understanding. (bvsalud.org)
  • He explains that although he was born in Iraq, he is of Iranian ancestry. (unhcr.org)
  • UNHCR is working with the Iranian authorities to set up procedures to help the process of repatriating those who wish to leave. (unhcr.org)
  • Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have threatened to attack U.S. facilities there because of American support for Israel. (wtrf.com)
  • Tashkil al-Waritheen, one of the Iranian-backed militias making up the larger group, claimed responsibility in a statement for a second drone attack, which it said had targeted the al-Harir airbase in northern Iraq. (wtrf.com)
  • The paper quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Rahimpour as saying the purpose of the strikes was 'the defense of the interests of our friends in Iraq. (rferl.org)
  • There is no doubt about that, but are the "humanitarian issues," as Istrabadi claimed, the best reason for going into Iraq? (back-to-iraq.com)
  • Robert Glasser, chief executive of Care Australia, who coordinates aid in Iraq with Ms Hassan, said that the humanitarian organisation would cease operations till she was freed. (asianews.it)
  • In both cases, the victims were women, taken at work or going to work, employed in Iraq over a long period of time for humanitarian organisations (in Ms Hassan's case, 30 years) that can hardly be accused of collaborating with the occupiers. (asianews.it)
  • The government of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq said an intercepted drone crashed in an open area near the village of Batas. (wtrf.com)
  • Last week, 11 U.S. service members were flown from Iraq to U.S. medical facilities in Germany and Kuwait for further evaluation of concussion-like symptoms. (foxnews.com)
  • But UNHCR spokesperson Astrid Van Genderen Stort told RFE/RL from Geneva that the criteria are likely to favor those who are unable to remain in their current countries of asylum. (rferl.org)
  • From September 2002 through February 2003, the Post editorialized 26 times in favor of the Iraq war. (mediamatters.org)
  • After the British (and French) plan to divide the Muslim world into small dependent states after World War One was going to be adjusted by the US's plan to divide Iraq into even smaller and more dependent oil rich states, similar to the Gulf states, an irony apparently lost on all. (counterpunch.org)
  • Whatever the reader may think of these two overlapping political trends, they share a common aspiration for Arab independence from Western neo-imperialism and Iraq is the most important Arab-Muslim country in this regard. (counterpunch.org)
  • Iraq is the only country in the Muslim world that can speak to Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and non-Arabs alike. (counterpunch.org)
  • Another is that Iran will dominate Iraq through its influence on Shiites. (nybooks.com)
  • civil war, rather, is and has always been the favored alternative should the United States fail to dominate Iraq politically. (counterpunch.org)
  • The breaking up of Iraq is useful in several important ways: First, it is easier to dominate the oil of smaller weaker states than larger ones and, secondly, Iraq has always posed the greatest threat to Israel. (counterpunch.org)
  • Rahimpour, in an interview in London on December 5, said the strikes were not coordinated with the United States, which along with allies is also waging an air campaign against the extremist group in Iraq and Syria. (rferl.org)
  • The release of sarin in Matsumoto, Japan, in June 1994 by the extremist Aum Shinrikyo cult left 7 dead and 280 injured. (medscape.com)
  • The mobilisation followed nearly 11 months of paralysis that has left the country without a new government, prime minister or president, with Shiite factions disagreeing on forming a coalition since elections last October. (gulfnews.com)
  • As to arguments from anti-war activists that the looming Iraq war is "all about oil," he said: "I do not believe the US and the coalition of the willing will go to war for oil. (back-to-iraq.com)
  • In this moment of heightened alert, we are vigilantly monitoring the situation in Iraq and the region. (wtrf.com)
  • Inside Iraq, the situation can be worse. (rferl.org)
  • What using realistic language does is make clear how out of American control the situation has become in Iraq. (pacificviews.org)
  • The threat to the United States is barbaric jihadism, as both an ideology and a tactic, but for many in Iraq, and in neighboring countries, the dispute is quickly evolving into a fratricidal rivalry between Shiites and Sunnis. (truthdig.com)
  • Last-minute changes to the constitution, and the deferral of some key decisions on federalism and oil revenues, the government of Iraq succeeded to make some factions of Sunnis population happy. (mediamonitors.net)
  • And, more than 80% of these populations reside in lower- and middle-income countries, "the same areas most affected by diabetes and where the projected rise in diabetes is anticipated to be the most dramatic. (medscape.com)
  • Talks of providing such help failed at the EU level [EurActiv] as countries like Sweden couldn't agree [Radio Sweden] even internally on what to do. (defenseindustrydaily.com)
  • The local shopkeeper says that in the past few weeks, the talk here has been about nothing but the news from Iraq, and the hope that soon it will be possible to go back. (unhcr.org)
  • Finally, the news organizations are starting to use realistic language to describe what is happening in Iraq. (pacificviews.org)
  • It also estimates the endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012, calls on all proportion of surviving infants who did not receive any DTP countries to reach 90% national coverage for all vaccines in doses (referred to as `left-out') and the proportion that received the country's routine immunization schedule by 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • Active cholera transmission is widespread in Iraq. (cdc.gov)
  • Imprinted on the rubble of a ruined Iraq are the footprints of her intellectuals fleeing the country-a brain drain of enormous magnitude. (counterpunch.org)
  • Member states communicated their frustration over the years that Iraq was impeding the work of the UN Special Commission and failing to take seriously its disarmament obligations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their parents left their home in Karbala, southern Iraq, more than 10 years ago. (unhcr.org)
  • Gen. Ray Odierno likewise deserves acclaim as he departs Iraq after spending much of the last seven years there. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Iraq has recently put forth a controversial draft law that would allow men to marry girls as young as 9 years old and force their wives to have sex without consent. (sott.net)
  • What we have rather is the importation of sectarianism along with ex-patriots, many of whom had not been in the country for thirty years. (counterpunch.org)
  • Recommended for unvaccinated travelers younger than 60 years old traveling to Iraq. (cdc.gov)
  • Unvaccinated travelers 60 years and older may get vaccinated before traveling to Iraq. (cdc.gov)
  • The case of international sanctions enacted against Iraq between the years 1990 and 2003 will be the focal point of this analysis where the difficulties of implementing sanctions against an autocrat will be highlighted. (lu.se)
  • The sanctions against Iraq and Iran resulted in a balancing act between the two targeted states where the U.S.,A. has endeavored to perpetuate an inherent unstable regional balance. (lu.se)
  • The reasoning behind the implementation of sanctions preservation of status quo as well as the disparity between intended and actual effects of the sanctions against Iraq will be the central elements of analysis in this thesis. (lu.se)
  • With both Iran and Iraq now designated hostile states a strategy of `Dual Containment' was created. (lu.se)
  • And so does Mohafaq Al'Ali, another shopkeeper in the neighbourhood who fled Iraq in the early '80s. (unhcr.org)
  • But thank God they didn't hurt us, because the police came by - there had been an explosion somewhere else in the neighbourhood - and the gang got scared and left. (newint.org)
  • On November 5, 1990, the American Congress approved law 101-513 on foreign operations and appropriations which not only foresaw the cost of the attack on Iraq, but also the end of Yugoslavia. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Iraq 1952-1990 and U.S. Regional Interest. (lu.se)
  • Globally, 123 (63%) countries achieved the GVAP 2020 target (mass campaigns), usually are not. (cdc.gov)
  • Will these ghosts return to leave their bloody mark on the country's future? (nybooks.com)
  • The SPH Portal provides a comprehensive one-stop platform for partners and donors to identify gaps in a country's health security capacities, assess opportunities to target their financial and technical resources for the maximum public health benefit, and explore mechanisms for collaboration with countries. (who.int)
  • The president's speaking about the Iraq air strikes before getting on the helicopter to fly to Martha's Vineyard. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Sulfur mustard was the major cause of chemical casualties in World War I. CWAs have been used in at least 12 conflicts since, including the first Persian Gulf War (Iraq-Iran War). (medscape.com)