http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/22 The latest news about Blogs in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator During the 10 years that the U.S. Army positioned itself next door to Iran, in neighboring Iraq, and Afghanistan, the people of Iran never seriously feared an attack. Despite President Bush's at times heated war rhetoric, the Iranians shrugged off fears of missile strikes or bunker-busting bombs.... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107777/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:59:00 +0000 What is happening in Syria is frightening, painful and ugly. Seven thousand people have been killed and the regime continues to repress its people, as if they are public enemy number one. Russia continues... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107456/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:13:00 +0000 The way in which the growing confrontation with Iran is being sold by the US, Israel and West European leaders is deeply dishonest. The manipulation of the media and public opinion through systematic threat exaggeration is similar to the drum beat of propaganda and disinformation about Iraq’s non-existent... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107413/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:36:00 +0000 Saudi Arabia and neighbouring oil-producing Gulf countries wield massive clout. If they so choose, together with Iraq, they can hold world economies to ransom by either reducing production to a trickle, selecting their customers or sealing the Strait of Hormuz. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107344/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:16:00 +0000 When Sohayba Ahmed, 24, told her parents that she was going to Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city, for a graduation celebration with her classmates, her parents refused to allow her. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107292/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:24:00 +0000 Reported comments by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards boasting of his country’s influence abroad have sparked controversy in Iraq. Analysts say the seriousness with which the incident was taken reflects the huge sensitivities surrounding sovereignty issues after the United States military withdrawal. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107287/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:16:00 +0000 When I happened to wake up in the middle of the night last Wednesday and caught the BBC World Service’s live relay of President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress, two passages had me rubbing my eyes in disbelief. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107283/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:00 +0000 After months of waiting, we look to be in the final stages of government reshuffle. Around the world that is a time when the political system takes a deep breath, scans the horizon and looks at what... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107226/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:40:00 +0000 What’s in common between Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II, King Hamad bin Isa and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, as well as Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and Prince Khaled bin Sultan? They are all military... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107228/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:40:00 +0000 The situation in every single Arab country is bad, extremely bad. But it is in Iraq where the situation is worst, not in Syria, Libya, Yemen or Egypt (economically speaking). http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107227/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:40:00 +0000 We grew up in the shadow of a fault line, to the blare of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We would hear about the central cause, whenever the ruler gave a speech, whenever the government attempted to justify... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107112/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:08:00 +0000 The Americans are stunned by the transformations of the Arab spring, while they cannot claim they had anything to do with the revolutions in the region or impose their tutelage to deliver lessons in... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107113/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:08:00 +0000 The Iraq war may be over, at least for US troops, but the cover-up of the atrocities committed there by American forces goes on, even in retrospectives about the war. A prime example is reporting on the destroyed city of Fallujah, where some of the heaviest fighting of the war took place. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107079/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:18:00 +0000 If what is happening in Syria is caused by a foreign “conspiracy” backed up by the Arabs and implemented by “armed gangs” that are funded and armed by the pillars of the conspiracy, and if this... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107049/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:30:00 +0000 At the end of December, 2011, the Iraqi Special Group know as Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the League of the Righteous, said that it was willing to join the country’s political process. This was due to the withdrawal... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106990/refid/RSS-blogs-08-02-2012 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000