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Baghdad, 12 August 2008 -- A Kurdistan Coalition (KC) parliamentarian on Monday said that the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Staffan di Mistura is expected ...
Diala, 08 August 2008 -- The Iraqi minister of defense, Abdul-Qader al-Obaidi, on Friday revealed that his ministry set up a special unit to deal with the issue of Ashraf camp that has been hosting ...
BEIJING, 07 August 2008 -- Many countries at the Beijing Olympics know they have no hope of upstaging powerhouse nations like China and the United States, but the world's sporting minnows plan to grab ...
Vienna, Austria, 07 August 2008 -- The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is participating for the first time in the Model United Nations conference this week in Vienna. The KRG’s Department of ...
Cairo, 07 August 2008 -- The new chief of the Arab League office in Baghdad, Ambassador Hani Khallaf, sits down with Asharq Al-Awsat to highlight the league priorities in Iraq; including national reconciliation, ...
Baghdad, 06 August 2008 -- A new UN-backed plan to resolve a deadlock over Iraq’s provincial elections would let the polls go ahead across almost all of the country but leave the fate of the disputed ...
Baghdad, 06 August 2008 -- Iraq asked on Tuesday the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to extend the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for another year as of August 6.
Baghdad, 05 August 2008 -- Iraqi female sprinter Dana Hussein needed more than just sporting determination to get to the 2008 Beijing Olympics - she had to survive bombings, sectarian fighting and ...
Cairo, 01 August 2008 -- The 22-nation Arab League has named a new envoy to Iraq. Hani Khalaf, a retired Egyptian diplomat, will be the League's next envoy, replacing Moroccan Moukhtar Lamani, who ...
01 August 2008 -- Several journalists and writers from the Kurdistan region of Iraq have received death threats in recent days. One of those threatened, Souran ‘Omar, was named on a list of journalists ...
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