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Days into the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, Trump officials and Kurdish leaders began openly musing…
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead at 86
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States were holding indirect negotiations Thursday in Geneva…
Jewish family’s compensation claim denied by Paris court
The Paris Administrative Court has dismissed a compensation claim brought by the descendants of Iraqi Jews against the…
Trump warns Iraq against returning former PM al-Maliki to power amid worries about Iran influence
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump warned Iraq on Tuesday that the U.S. would no longer support the country…
Kurdish refugees’ story told at Arcola Theatre
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China’s massive oil-for-loan debts at risk in post-Maduro Venezuela: analysts
The US takeover of Venezuela has placed billions of dollars in Chinese oil-for-loan debts at risk, analysts say,…
Venezuela operation is ‘exact opposite’ of Iraq, Hegseth says
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday there were no parallels between the US military operation in…
How China, Iran, Russia, Israel and others reacted to Trump’s strikes & capture of Venezuelan leader
The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the strikes as ‘an act of armed aggression against Venezuela,’ characterising the pretexts…
Did Tony Blair influence trial of UK soldiers accused of killing Iraqi man? | Courts News
The United Kingdom’s role in the Iraq war has come under the spotlight once again, as newly released…
Saddam Hussein reference in new Syrian textbooks triggers uproar
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