Global IssuesNews headlines for “Iraq Crisis”
Those Laboratory Mice Were Children
- Inter Press Service
At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects — there are just too many. Parents don’t want to talk. 'Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone,' says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. 'It’s all too shameful for them.'
Exit Americans, Enter Sectarian Strife
- Inter Press Service
Barely three months after the pullout by U.S. troops, sectarian clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims have begun to take a heavy toll across Iraq.
Turkey's Fears: What Threats Could Syrian Crisis Unleash?
- Inter Press Service
Enough calls to reason. It is time for collective action. That was the message Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sent Thursday to his European Union (EU) colleagues, whom he will be meeting later this week in Brussels.
Those Bodies in Baghdad Are of Gay Men
- Inter Press Service
Dozens of bodies bludgeoned to death pop up in Baghdad’s dusty streets like the remains of a wreckage on a beach. They are the corpses of homosexuals and followers of the ‘emo’ fashion who dare to break with the strict canons of the Shia orthodoxy in power.
‘Sons of Iraq’ Orphaned
- Inter Press Service
'We have not been paid since the Americans left Iraq last December. If nothing changes, I will abandon this checkpoint,' Saif Ahmed tells IPS. He is one of the militiamen who claim to have defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The Ancient Wither in New Iraq
- Inter Press Service
'I’d say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish.' Anxiety about the future of his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid, chairman of Basra’s Mandaean Council.
U.S.: A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of protesters, dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
US-IRAN: War of Words Calculated to Avoid Actual Conflict
- Inter Press Service
The recent escalation in Iranian threats to blockade oil shipments and attack U.S. Navy vessels are meant to push up the price of oil and divert domestic opinion from an economic crisis but are not likely to lead to a war in the Persian Gulf, in the view of Iran experts.
U.S.: 'Arab Spring' Dominated TV Foreign News in 2011
- Inter Press Service
The so-called 'Arab Spring' led U.S. network television evening news coverage during 2011, comprising a total of about 10 percent of all the news coverage provided by the three major commercial networks during 2011, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
Mass Tragedy Feared as Closure of MEK Camp Looms
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another location in the country or risk the lives of as many as 3,200 people.
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