As long as oil continues to be a factor, as long as Iraqi Shias and Sunnis continue to butcher each other, as long as the expenses of war can be sustained by the American economy, there is no hope of an American withdrawal from Iraq.
Bonnie Burnham, president of the\nWorld Monuments Fund, said thousands of important sites in Iraq, known as the cradle of civilisation, are at risk from war, looting and neglect.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday chaired a meeting of India's top envoys from Gulf countries to discuss the situation in conflict-hit Iraq where the Indian government is in the process of facilitating departure of nearly 10,000 of its nationals from non-conflict zones.
Union External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday night returned home after a two-day Iraq visit during which he held talks with top Iraqi leadership on issues of bilateral and mutual interests including imports of oil.
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A police officer confirmed the attack had been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Reliance Industry plans to make an all-out bid for securing the contract for a 3,00,000 barrels per day refinery project in Iraq, sources said.
Retired general Tommy Franks, former CIA director George Tenet and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer received the the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
The ministry said that they are continuing to deliver just punishment to those whose hands are stained with the blood of Iraqis.
The debate, which allowed Cheney and Edwards to cross-question, led to some heated arguments.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has declared the formation of a caliphate, realises it will need the help of migrant workers and professionals to run the nation and is thus forcing the Indian nationals to stay back, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
But the US president rejected demands that Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld be sacked for his failure to prevent atrocities against Iraqi prisoners.
A magical goal from midfielder Yaser Kasim gave Iraq a crucial 1-0 win over a 10-man Jordan in the Asian Cup on Monday.
Hakki Pikkis are a semi-nomadic tribe, traditionally of bird catchers and hunters, from Karnataka. Their knowledge of the forest and traditional medicine is extensive and is prized by the Sudanese community.
The abductors gave Tokyo three days to declare a pullout, failing which the three Japanese--two journalists and a woman aid worker-would be executed.
Congress MPs Ambika Soni, Pratap Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo said they would move a motion against Swaraj in the Upper House after compiling documents and information on the issue.
"Mubarak said that when President Bush Sr had called and asked what Mubarak thought about invading Iraq to get to rid of Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war, Mubarak had told him not to because 'you won't be able to get out and you will drown in Iraq,'" according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
A Shia leader who was the main target of the suicide bomber was not in office when the blast occurred.
It is believed that the process was brought forward to prevent militants from disrupting the process.
Suicide bombers killed 12, including a US soldier, as the UN edged closer to a resolution on Iraq.
An own goal from Walid Abbas in the third minute of stoppage time gifted holders Iraq a precious 1-0 win over United Arab Emirates to kick-start their Asian Cup title defence on Saturday.
The BBC says the news will be a blow to the US, which had hoped to complete such a document within six months.
'...to bring the Global South and others to the negotiating table on the basis of Gandhi's non-violence so that we can leave a safer world for our children.'
The advance of the Al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and its allies towards Baghdad appears to have been "stalled" but the "grave" situation in Iraq needs to be dealt with militarily as well as politically, a top UN official has said.
Opposition on Friday demanded a detailed response from the government in Rajya Sabha on the Iraq crisis ruing that there is no data on how many Indians were still stuck there.
He feared elections planned for January would not go ahead in Iraq unless security improved.
The team of weapons inspectors sent in by Washington and London at the end of the war to comb Iraq has admitted in its final report that there were no stockpiles.
United States President George W Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite suspension in troops withdrawal from Iraq after July, to enable military commanders evaluate future troop reductions, in the war-torn country. Making it clear that the bulk of the American fighting force in Iraq is going to stay put right through the end of his tenure next year, Bush reduced the combat tours of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to 12 months from 15 months.
The international suspension of the Iraqi Football Association was provisionally lifted by FIFA on Thursday.
The seven Chinese entered Iraq via Jordan on Sunday morning and were most probably abducted in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Xinhua news agency quoted a Chinese diplomat as saying.
"The minister told us that she would meet the CMs of the four states from where the Indians belonged to take a decision on possibility of providing a government job to the next of kin."
US Ambassador Robert D Blackwill said on Wednesday that Washington has appealed to India to participate in the reconstruction and stabilisation of Iraq.
Teams of American and Iraqi negotiators spent months haggling over the deal which will be presented to the Bush administration and the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for formal approval or rejection, the Journal said.
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