IRAQ PULSE إقرأ باللغة العربية نبض العراق A giant Christmas tree stands outside the Sama mall in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 20, 2016. (photo by Ammar Alsawad) Iraq’s Muslims celebrate Christmas in solidarity with Christians BAGHDAD — With every year, Christmas in Baghdad is marked with more festivities than the year before. Is this […]
BY MARK STEELE, THE INDEPENDENT You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets […]
Jordan to send ambassador to Iraq, as Baghdad intends to open border for trade By JT – Dec 20,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday discussed political and security developments in Iraq with Iraqi political leaders at Al Husseiniya Palace, according to a Royal Court statement. The […]
‘We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,’ former Iraqi ruler told CIA Will Worley The US “got it wrong” about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically […]
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises as Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government take cover during a battle with Daesh militants in Sirte on October 2 (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Daesh terror […]
Source: Aljazeera by Barbara Bibbo As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally […]
By Reuters – Dec 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi internally displaced groom Jassim Mohammed walks with his bride, Amena Ali, during their wedding ceremony at a camp for internally displaced people in Khazir, near Mosul, Iraq, Thursday (AP photo) BAGHDAD —Iraqi troops who seized a hospital deep inside […]
Reuters International DEC 7, 2016 – American vehicles are seen in Bartila, Iraq December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (reuters_tickers) By Dominic Evans, Maher Chmaytelli and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – In the early days of the assault on Islamic State in Mosul, Iran successfully pressed Iraq to change […]
By AP – Dec 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis who fled the fighting between Iraqi security forces and the Daesh terror group militants settle at a camp for internally displaced people in Khazir, near Mosul, Iraq, on Monday (AFP photo) KHAZIR, Iraq — The UN refugee agency distributed […]
Reuters International DEC 3, 2016 – A member of Iraqi security forces stands guard during an operation against Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, December 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – No food or fuel has reached Mosul in nearly a week and the […]
By Rula Samain – Dec 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Peacemaking should be at the heart of the mindset working to counter the spread of violence in the Middle East and the world, participants said at a conference that concluded on Thursday. Unless peace becomes a mindset and […]
Isis has attacked the nearby city of Karbala using suicide bombers Alexandra Sims click on for video report: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/20-million-muslims-march-against-isis-arbaeen-pilgrimage-iraq-karbala-a7436561.html
Source: BBC Nearly 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, have been killed in a truck bomb attack at a road stop in Iraq, a security official says. The blast […]
Nov 23, 2016 House of Wisdom Back in the 9th century AD, the House of Wisdom was established in Baghdad. It contained manuscripts on mathematics, astronomy, science, medicine, and philosophy from Persia, India, and Greece. There were also astronomical observatories, laboratories for chemistry and alchemy, and a center for studying […]
By AFP – Nov 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis, who were separated by the ongoing fighting, cry and hug their relatives as they meet after a long time, at the Khazir refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 40km west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous […]
COMMENTARY (The Hill) November 14, 2016 What the Battles of Mosul and Aleppo Tell Us About Their Countries’ Futures A Peshmerga soldier talks with a boy who is fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in Mosul, Iraq, November 14, 2016 Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters by Brian […]
Posted 2016-11-19 (AFP) — Cramped in a tarpaulin tent with his family of nine, Ali Mahmud remembers his spacious ancestral home in the northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa he last set foot in more than two years ago. “It was built long ago by my great grandfather,” the construction worker, […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – 12:24 A military vehicle of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service drives in al-Zahraa neighborhood during a fight with Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq Novemebr 13, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmad Jadallah/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Emboldened by machinegun fire on Islamic State […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Army medics and volunteers attend to a patient suffering from injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces 2nd Division open air field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood of Mosul onThursday (AFP photo) MOSUL — Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]