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Iraq cancels $4bn Russia arms deal

Source: PerthNow, Nov 10 2012, 6:34am CST

BAGHDAD has cancelled a $US4.2 billion ($4.05 billion) weapons package with Russia citing graft concerns, torpedoing a deal that would have made Moscow Iraq's biggest arms supplier after the US. Cancellation of the deal, which had been announced when Pr ...

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3 killed in two bomb blasts in Iraq

Source: Press TV  |   Jun 19 2013, 1:39pm CDT

According to Iraqi officials, the explosions took place on Wednesday in al-Miqdadiyah city situated some 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. There has recently been an upsurge in violence across ...

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Bombings kill 7 people in Iraq

Source: FindLaw: AP Professional News  |   Jun 19 2013, 1:30pm CDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed seven people, including a local political leader and four of his relatives, authorities said Wednesday. Violence has risen sharply in Iraq in recent months as sectari ...

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New Russian, US nuclear arms cuts must be preceded by fulfillment of START treaty - Ryabkov

Source: Voice of Russia  |   Jun 19 2013, 12:06pm CDT

Moscow finds it necessary to implement the existing START treaty and find an acceptable form of resolving the problem of missile defense before discussing the proposal of US President Barack Obama on the reduction of the nuc ...

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The Agony of Iraq—And Its Lesson for Syria

Source: The Nation  |   Jun 19 2013, 11:04am CDT

An Iraqi military helicopter flies over Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad. Reuters/Stringer On the tenth anniversary of the April 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein’s secular, nationalist government, Paul Wolfowitz – a neocon ...

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Iraqi Shi'ites flock to Assad's side as sectarian split widens

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   Jun 19 2013, 11:03am CDT

Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Dhia Mutasharm, a Shi'ite militia fighter killed in clashes with the Free Syrian Army, during a funeral in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad in this May 6, 2013 file photo. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Among the Ira ...

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Iraq officials say suicide attack kills politician

Source: Boston Herald  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:56am CDT

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a suicide attack has killed a local political leader and four of his relatives in northern Iraq. A police officer said Wednesday that a suicide bomber blew himself up late the previous night inside Younis al-Rammah's gue ...

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US, Germany: Common ground in a complex relationship (Opinion)

Source: EurActive.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:39am CDT

Stratfor is a Texas-based global intelligence company. “The United States and Germany have a long and complex bilateral relationship. After World War II and the US occupation of West Germany, Washington wanted to ...

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Five dead in Iraq suicide bomb ahead of vote

Source: Lebanon Daily Star  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:14am CDT

Iraqi military vehicles are stationed in front of a Shiite Muslim mosque Baghdad on June 18, 2013. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE MOSUL, Iraq: A suicide bombing in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed the leader of a provincial politica ...

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Obama urges Russia to cut up to a third nuclear arms

Source: Voice of Russia  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:05am CDT

The US is now convinced that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people, US President Barack Obama said Wednesday. The story line is beginning to sound familiar, too familiar. Young intelligent individual w ...

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