BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday that Kuwait never officially informed Baghdad about a controversial port project, which his country says must be stopped.
Baghdad alleges that the neighbouring emirate's Mubarak megaport will hinder Iraq's access to shipping lanes.
"The astonishing thing about the Mubarak port is that the Kuwaiti side never [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Baghdad's renowned Al-Rasheed hotel reopened on Friday, the only luxury commercial lodging inside the Iraqi capital's Green Zone and a centrepiece of the country's drive to attract foreign investors.
Guests entering the hotel once had to tread over a mosaic of former US president George Bush senior placed on the floor -- an insult reportedly ordered by dictat [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Iraq will execute two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers within a month along with three other former regime figures, an official said on Friday after the five were handed over by the US military.
The group, transferred to Iraqi custody on Thursday morning, were among 206 high-value detainees still being held by American forces ahead of a US military pullout d [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - It will be three years before doctors in Iraq can perform heart surgery on infants, doctors say, in a country where birth defects are high due to marriage within extended families.
"Until now, we have not been able to conduct heart surgery on infants," said Doctor Hussein Ali al-Hilli, director of the Ibn Bitar Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Baghdad.
"We re [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday lashed out at US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's disclosure that American forces are keeping up unilateral attacks on Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq.
Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi charged in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, that Panetta had "openly mocked Iraq's sovereignty and flaunted secu [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected accusations by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that Iran had armed rebels in neighbouring Iraq.
"The United States is not in a good position in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are doing everything they can to maintain their military presence in these two countries," the state television websi [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.
"We reserve the right to attack and destroy terrorist bases in border areas" near the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, the agency quoted the unnamed senior official as say [...]
KHANAQIN, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Dozens of Iraqi farmers on Sunday blocked a border crossing with Iran in protest at its diversion of a river which helps to irrigate one of their country's main agricultural regions.
The protesters blocked the entry of nine busloads of Iranian pilgrims from the border post of Munzuria, 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Baghdad, an AFP journalist said. [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - The chances of Iraqi leaders reaching an early decision on an extended US military presence beyond the end of this year are slim, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media advisor told AFP on Sunday.
"I believe that political leaders will not reach an agreement during the two-week deadline" for US forces to stay beyond a scheduled pullout at the end of this year, [...]
SHANAFIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - The remains of 222 people, probably Kurds killed under Iraq's former regime in 1987, were extracted from a mass grave south of Baghdad, the authorities said on Sunday.
"We have found 222 bodies and we have transferred them to the morgue in the province of Najaf," said Karim Ziad, the official in charge of mass graves at the Department of Human Rights [...]
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