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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 18:54 UTC

Tag: Iraq

  • Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 06:31 UTC

    Messi-inspired Iraqi short film now has higher goals

    Messi is a football idol way beyond Argentina and Barcelona

    A short film by Kurdish Regisseur Shehim Omar Khalifa which was highly awarded worldwide is now planning to become a full-length documentary as shooting for its enlargement is underway in Baghdad, Iraq.

  • Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 08:38 UTC

    Returning US “war powers” from the White House to Congress stalled in Senate

    Congress is trying to pull back the authority to declare war from the White House. President Biden and Senate Leader Chuck Schumer support repeal.

    Republican Senators are delaying an upper House committee's vote on the repeal of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF), the so-called wide-ranging war powers that allowed the war in Iraq, and other military actions.

  • Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

    Teheran says it has full respect for the independence and sovereignty of Iraq

    “The operation was precise and targeted military objectives thus leaving no collateral damage to civilians and civilian assets in the area” the Iranian diplomat said

    Iran said on Wednesday it respects Iraq's territorial integrity, after firing missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops. The early Wednesday strike led Iraq to say it would summon the Iranian ambassador.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 10:51 UTC

    Iran’s retaliation in Iraq against U.S. forces is a “Slap in face”: Supreme Leader

    Iran’s firing of ballistic missiles without casualties at two military bases in Iraq was a retaliation on the American killing of General Qassim Suleiman

    Hours after Iran’s attacks on two bases in Iraq that houses United States troops, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed his nation considering the firing of 22 ballistic missiles as a “slap in the face” and that military action were “not sufficient” to end the American presence in the region. However, Iran’s authorities said they did “not seek escalation or war.”

  • Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

    Controversy in Westminster over “legal witch hunt” of British troops that served in Ulster

    Defense Secretary Williamson warned of a “witch hunt” over government plans on setting up of an historical investigations unit in Northern Ireland

    More than one third of Tory Members of Parliament, including a former Defense secretary - have written to the prime minister to demand an end to “legal witch hunts” of military veterans. Signatories to a letter delivered to Theresa May on Tuesday also include more than 50 members of the House of Lords, including four former chiefs of defense staff.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 14:34 UTC

    Key Naseed-Jaber, Quneitra crossings reopened as Syria reaches out to neighbours

    Vehicles begin to again pass through the Nasseb-Jaber crossing between Syria and Jordan

    The strategic Naseeb crossing between Syria and Jordan on the Damascus-Amman international highway was reopened Monday, just one day after both countries agreed to it. The crossing had been closed since 2015 when the rebels took over that area in Syria's southern province of Daraa. Also Monday the only crossing point near the Syrian border town of Quneitra between Syria and the Golan Heights, under Israeli occupation since 1967, was reopened for United Nations observers, four years after closing due to the civil war, following a deal between Israel, Syria and the UN.

  • Friday, July 6th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

    The new oil cartel threatening OPEC

    China and India account for 17% of global oil consumption and they are the ones that would be the hardest hit if prices rise as a result of OPEC's actions.

    When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers' club, OPEC was probably too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. Now, it may be time for it to start worrying.

  • Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 17:39 UTC

    “Uniting the world against terrorism”: OP-ED on the United Nations conference on counter-terrorism

    With the military defeat of ISIL in Syria and Iraq, large numbers of these ideologically-driven mercenaries are relocating to other theatres of conflict or returning home, passing on their battlefield

    NEW YORK — Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune. Social media, encrypted communications and the dark web are being used to spread propaganda, radicalize new recruits and plan atrocities. The threat ranges from the crude tactics of lone actors to sophisticated coordinated attacks and the horrific prospect of terrorists using chemical, biological or radioactive weapons.

  • Sunday, March 4th 2018 - 15:58 UTC

    Oil Market Fears: War, Default And Nuclear Weapons

    Verisk Maplecroft surveyed a long list of countries, and produced its Government Stability Index (GSI), which uses some predictive data and analysts forecasts to take stock of geopolitical risk in var

    The U.S. is one of the few areas of the world in which there is an energy investment boom underway, a development that could smooth out the uncertainties of geopolitical events around the world. At the same time, outside of the U.S., there is a deterioration of stability in many oil-producing regions, aggravating risks for both oil companies and the oil market, according to a new report.

  • Wednesday, September 27th 2017 - 20:09 UTC

    UK does not support referendum being held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq

    Johnson said UK and allies proposed an alternative plan: negotiations between the Iraq government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to address all issues

    The United Kingdom does not support the referendum held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq and continues to back the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, underlined Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who insisted any referendum should be agreed with the Government of Iraq.

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