Car Bomb at Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq

Asia News Local sources warn of new attacks ‘against churches and monasteries’. A new Christian exodus is feared. BAGHDAD (AsiaNews) - A car bomb exploded this morning near Our lady of Fatima Church in Mosul. So far no casualties have been reported but

Gulf Air plans to resume Iraq services

Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, has announced that it will resume services to Iraq as soon as possible. The decision to fly to Iraq follows the agreement made between the governments of Bahrain and Iraq recently, allowing the national carriers of

Seven killed, 15 wounded in Iraq car bombing

Baghdad, July 15 (DPA) Seven people were killed and at least 15 wounded Wednesday when a man detonated explosives packed in his car in central Iraqi city of Ramadi, police said. ‘A suicide bomber blew up his car,’ police spokesman for al-Anbar Province

The Constitution of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

– Fact Sheet — ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has worked for decades to draft a regional constitution that will serve as a model for tolerance, civil society and democracy in the

Iraq gears up for $30 billion housing projects

By Aseel Kami BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is lining up at least $30 billion in housing and commercial developments over the next decade as Baghdad looks for homes for a rising population. and hopes to revive a city shattered by war. Baghdad Mayor Saber

Iraqis to U.S. military: Remain on your bases

BAGHDAD Two weeks after U.S. combat troops withdrew from Iraq’s major cities, amid sporadic outbreaks of violence countrywide, Iraqi authorities aren’t asking American forces for help. Although U.S. troops are just a radio call away, in Baghdad and five

Iraq announces four new A/H1N1 cases: newspaper

BAGHDAD, July 15 (Xinhua) — Iraq announced four new cases of A/H1N1 flu which have been detected among the Multi-National forces in the country, raising the total number of cases infected by the disease to 20, an official Iraqi newspaper reported on

Pope Prays for Conversion of Hearts in Iraq

- RV) Violence has returned to attack the Christian Churches in Iraq. In a series of attacks, carried out between Saturday and Sunday in Baghdad, four people died and a further thirty-two were injured, some seriously. The most serious incident took place

Iraq Christian Community Suffers Bomb Attacks

- RV) A series of deadly bomb attacks against Christian churches rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, last night, killing 4 people and injuring more than a dozen others. The Apostolic Procurator for Chaldean Catholics, chorbishop Philip Najeem told us the

Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?

The (Re)Making of a Petro-State Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to

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