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May 8, 2024 · Iraq in focus. In Iraq, the ICRC helps displaced people, refugees and civilians in places affected by fighting during times of crisis. We improve access to clean water and health care, visit detainees and enable them to maintain contact with their families and support the authorities’ efforts to clarify the fate of people missing from earlier conflicts.
Apr 24, 2024 · Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq—died December 30, 2006, Baghdad) was the president of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule was marked by costly and unsuccessful wars against neighbouring countries. Early life. Saddam, the son of peasants, was born in a village near the city of Tikrīt in northern Iraq.
May 11, 2024 · Iraq’s Oil Ministry has begun a three-day process for awarding 29 oil and gas projects under the five-plus and sixth licensing rounds — the first time since 2018 that Iraq has held a bidding round. On Saturday, the Oil Ministry awarded seven projects, including five to Chinese companies, and two to Iraqi Kurdish firm KAR Group, in a ...
4 days ago · Die Republik Irak (amtlich: arabisch جمهورية العراق, DMG Ǧumhūriyyat al-ʿIrāq, kurdisch كۆماری عێراق Komarî Êraq ), kurz (der) Irak oder (international) auch Iraq, ist ein Staat in Vorderasien. Der Irak grenzt an Kuwait, Saudi-Arabien, Jordanien, Syrien, die Türkei, Iran und den Persischen Golf und umfasst den ...
May 6, 2024 · Updated 8:57 AM PDT, May 6, 2024. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. Warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the regions of Hakurk, Metina and Gara in Iraq’s semi ...
Apr 22, 2024 · A trial scheduled to begin Monday, April 15, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., will be the first time that survivors of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison will bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury. Twenty years earlier, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them shocked the world. (AP Photo, File)
May 3, 2024 · Iraq passes bill sentencing same-sex relations up to 15 years in prison. Amendments passed on Saturday modify a 1988 anti-prostitution law and criminalize homosexual relations and gender ...
