Tag: Iraq

Iran on Tuesday said it is dismissing Israeli threats of an imminent attack against it, explaining that even some Israeli officials realised such a “stupid” act would provoke “very severe consequences.” Iran’s defence minister, General Ahmad Vahidi, was quoted by

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syrian anti-government rebels say they shot down a fighter jet Analysis: Finding a Global Solution to the Syrian Crisis Planned Saudi industrial city excludes mixed gender workers Greece continues downward spiral as economy contracts

In light of talk about attacks on Iran coming out of Israel and sanctions on Iran coming out of the U.S. and Britain, the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy has made it clear that Iran will not hesitate to

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told reporters that a former U.S. Marine had been arrested Aug. 4 for entering Venezuela illegally from Colombia, he gave no proof that the man was, in fact, a former Marine or that the man

(AP) Storied 101st Airborne marks 70th anniversaryBy KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. After months of grueling road marches through the north Georgia mountains, a group of elite paratroopers had to put their training to the test in a trial by

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wages a blood-drenched campaign for survival, Washington is stepping up plans for the day after he falls, colored by costly lessons of Iraq’s implosion in 2003. Senior US officials do not know how long Assad

Iran’s government has seen the future, and it doesn’t like the way its population’s growth is dwindling down to nothing.  As a result, it is jettisoning its birth control program. Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi said, “The budget for

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Slovenia may become sixth euro country needing a bailout Iraq to purchase air defense systems from Russia U.N. General Assembly passes purely symbolic resolution condemning Syria Russia still considering naval bases in Vietnam, Cuba,

Judicial Watch reports that Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq, who tortured and killed 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and was detained by U.S. forces in early 2007, will be freed by an Iraqi court–the inevitable, and predictable, result of an Obama

By BUSHRA JUHIAssociated PressBAGHDADBritain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what’s left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday. The British Defense

(AP) Iran urges baby boomBy NASSER KARIMIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran’s new message to parents: Get busy and have babies. In a major reversal of once far-reaching family planning policies, authorities are now slashing its birth-control programs in an attempt to avoid

(AP) 19 killed as Iraqi forces clash with militantsBy SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated PressBAGHDADMilitants downed an Iraqi army helicopter on Thursday in clashes that have killed at least 19 people including 11 policemen, a regional official said, in what appeared to be

President Barack Obama, speaking to the National Urban League on Wednesday evening, sounded a call for gun control–and revealed his apparent ignorance about the U.S. military in the process. Obama told the audience that “AK-47s belong in the hands of

Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle East’s only free democracy, never mind its desire for peace with all of its Arab neighbors. It may seem

(AP) Coordinated Iraq attacks kill 103By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and BUSHRA JUHIAssociated PressBAGHDADBombings and shootings ripped across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 103 people in the deadliest day this year. The coordinated attacks in 13 cities sent a chilling warning

(AP) Syrian rebels say fight for Aleppo has begunBy BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian rebels have launched an offensive to “liberate” the country’s largest city of Aleppo, an opposition commander said Sunday, while in Damascus government troops backed by helicopter gunships wrested

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(AP) UN fears for safety of Iraqi refugees in SyriaBy JOHN HEILPRINAssociated PressGENEVATens of thousands of Iraqi refugees in Syria are feared to be increasing targets of violence in Syria after the discovery of an Iraqi refugee family of seven