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... al-Kadhimi when he assumed office in 2020. He is seeking to appease anti-government protesters who rose up in October 2019 in Baghdad and Iraq's south. Tens of thousands of Iraqi youth took to the streets to decry rampant corruption, poor services and unemployment.Hundreds died as security ...
The sculpture, from 3000 B.C., was used for religious vows in Sumerian temples. Investigators believe it had been stolen from an archaeological site in southern Iraq, then passed off as part of a collection that had been discovered years earlier. Homeland Security Investigations teams, curious about the size of ...
... members voted 14-8, with three Republicans voting with Democrats, to repeal the 1991 measure that sanctioned the U.S.-led Gulf War to expel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, and the 2002 measure that greenlighted the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. Sen. Tim Kaine, a ...
... Hasan Nadhim. Nadhim said the recovery was "the largest in the history of Iraq" and the product of months of effort between the government and Iraq's Embassy in Washington. "There's still a lot of work ahead in this matter. There are still thousands of Iraqi artifacts smuggled outside ...
In our news wrap Monday, the White House announced that a U.S. combat mission in Iraq will wrap up by year’s end. The United Nations reports that more women and children have been killed in fighting in Afghanistan this year than in any similar period since 2009. Thomas ...
... send troops back to Iraq. The move was made in response to the Islamic State group’s takeover of large portions of western and northern Iraq and a collapse of Iraqi security forces that appeared to threaten Baghdad. Obama had fully withdrawn U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, eight ...
... the Iranian-backed militias that make up the bulk of Iraq's state-supported Popular Mobilization Forces. The Biden administration has responded by twice targeting Iraqi militia groups operating inside Syria, including one close to the Iraq border. The relationship has been complicated since last year's U.S. drone ...
A fire swept through a COVID hospital ward in southern Iraq overnight, killing at least 92 and injuring more than 100. Nick Schifrin reports. ... Judy Woodruff: A fire swept through a COVID hospital ward in Iraq overnight. The state news agency says 92 people were killed in Nasiriyah, with more ...
... lax safety at Iraq's hospitals, especially around oxygen cylinders, and have described the institutions as ticking bombs. Mac Skelton, a medical sociologist focused on Iraq, said chaos and neglect in Iraq's public hospitals since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 have given rise to "toxic" distrust between ...
With the final military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, a few state legislators in the U.S. are reconsidering the use of their National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars, like the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly half of the troops deployed to both countries over the past 20 years were from the National Guard and...
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