By RACHELLE KLIGER / THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY
Source: Jerusalem Post
The Islamic Army in Iraq is calling its operatives to step up attacks against Americans, in response to Israel’s policies in the Gaza Strip.
The group launched what labels the “Iraqi Resistance Campaign to Help Gaza.” The campaign involves increasing “military activities” against the […]
By SOLOMON MOORE and GRAHAM BOWLEY
Published: January 11, 2008
Source: New York Times
BAGHDAD — American bombers and fighter aircraft dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on suspected militant hide-outs in a southern suburb of Baghdad on Thursday, the military said.
In one of the largest air raids in recent months, which was accompanied by assaults by ground forces, […]
Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat- Turkey is economically, militarily and strategically a strong state that would never tolerate the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. If that took place, it would pose the most serious threat to Turkey since the war of independence in the 1920s. Consequently, Turkey seeks more rapprochement with the region’s […]
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 30, 2007; Page A23 BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 — The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, delivered a positive but cautious assessment Saturday of progress in the country in 2007, citing the drop-off in violence over the latter half of the year but warning that […]
BAGHDAD, (AP) -Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
Iraq army Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said security forces were “ready and prepared for any emergencies that might happen.”
In Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, hundreds […]
By Walter Pincus
Monday, December 31, 2007; Page A13 Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces — an increase of more […]
Schoolgirls Told to Wear Scarves, Under Threat of Death
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD — On the first day of class, two male teenagers entered a girls’ high school in the Tobji neighborhood, clutching AK-47 assault rifles. The young Shiite fighters handed the principal a handwritten note and ordered […]
Schoolgirls Told to Wear Scarves, Under Threat of Death
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD — On the first day of class, two male teenagers entered a girls’ high school in the Tobji neighborhood, clutching AK-47 assault rifles. The young Shiite fighters handed the principal a handwritten note and ordered […]
