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Straying US hikers are held by Iran

Sunday August 02 2009

Iran arrested three American tourists after what one Kurdish official described as an unwitting crossing into Iran from Iraq while hiking in mountains and Washington said it was taking the case very seriously.

Plague of snakes unleashed as Iraq runs dry

Monday June 15 2009

Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.

'It is difficult to describe how terrible it is - how badly we have been pushed back to the middle ages. Women are being denied their most basic rights'

In the name of religion: Iraq's female genocide

Monday April 28 2008

At first glance Shawbo Ali Rauf appears to be slumbering on the grass, her pale brown curls framing her face, her summer skirt spread about her. But the awkward position of her limbs and the splattered blood reveal the true horror of the scene.

President Ahmadinejad is to speak at Columbia University in New York

Anger as Iranian leader to speak at US college

Friday September 21 2007

Iran's president is set to use a speech at a leading US university to challenge George W Bush at a time of high tensions with Washington over his country's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its support for insurgents in Iraq.

Soccer fans take to the streets in Najaf, south of Baghdad, to celebrate after the Iraqi team won the Asian Cup soccer final.

2,000 Iraqis flee homes every day to escape death's shadow

Monday July 30 2007

TWO thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since World War I. Four million people, one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not, they will be killed. Two million people have left Iraq, mainly for Syria and Jordan, and the same number have fled within the country.

'I'll save my sympathy for the millions he persecuted'

Sunday December 31 2006

IWALKED through the smoke-blackened gate and through a foul courtyard strewn with debris. I entered the building, a typically ugly, concrete block, distinguished from other such buildings across Iraq only by the odd red hue of the blistered paint on its walls. It was the headquarters of the security service, known locally as 'Red Security', in the Kurdish-dominated northern Ir

Teenage girl who died in Kurdish Iraq 'had bird flu'

Tuesday January 31 2006

Oliver Poole
in Baghdad
A GIRL of 15 who died in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq appears to have had bird flu, Iraqi and United Nations health officials said yesterday.

Kurdish witnesses curse Saddam for chemical attack on villages

Thursday August 24 2006

CURSING Saddam Hussein, a Kurdish woman told the former Iraqi leader's genocide trial yesterday she was horribly burned after aircraft bombed her village with chemical weapons. I lost my sight. My children lost their sight . . . May God blind them all," said Adiba Owla Bayez, pointing at the former Iraqi president and his six co-defendants on the third day of the trial.

Evidence of Kurdish gassing reduces Saddam official to tears

Wednesday August 23 2006

KURDISH survivors of Iraqi army attacks told the trial of Saddam Hussein yesterday how their villages were covered by clouds of gas that burnt skin and eyes and left men, women and children screaming on the ground as they died. The testimony came on the second day of the war-crimes case relating to the Anfal "Spoils of War" campaign of 1987-88 in which 182,000 Kurds are alleged to have been killed.

Dark rumours in Iraq threaten to cast brother against brother

Thursday March 22 2007

SEVEN bombs detonating in just 35 minutes sent up clouds of black smoke over the centre of Kirkuk earlier this week.