Wars In Iraq
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Ghosts of Conflicts Past Hang Over UK Labour's Syria Split
A row in Britain's main opposition Labour party over whether to back air strikes in Syria has deepened splits over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, while reviving uncomfortable memories of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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State of Emergency in Iraq as Jihadists Gain Control of the Second City and its Province
Jihadists seized Iraq's second city of Mosul and its surrounding province on Tuesday, in a major blow to a government apparently incapable of stopping militant advances.
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In din over Iran, rattling sabers echo
The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.
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British police make arrest over Saddam's bronze buttock
British police has arrested a 66-year-old man over claims that part of a bronze statue of Saddam Hussein, a buttock, was illegally brought over from Iraq after the war. He was held yesterday on suspicion of breaching the 2003Iraq Sanctions Order, which bans dealing in "illegally removed Iraqi cultural property", including items of archaeological, ...
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End of Iraq war: Welcome home, Obama tells US troops
President Barack Obama saluted returning troops returning from Iraq Wednesday, declaring that the nearly nine-year conflict is ending honorably, "not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home."
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Ghosts of Conflicts Past Hang Over UK Labour's Syria Split
A row in Britain's main opposition Labour party over whether to back air strikes in Syria has deepened splits over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, while reviving uncomfortable memories of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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State of Emergency in Iraq as Jihadists Gain Control of the Second City and its Province
Jihadists seized Iraq's second city of Mosul and its surrounding province on Tuesday, in a major blow to a government apparently incapable of stopping militant advances.
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In din over Iran, rattling sabers echo
The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.
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British police make arrest over Saddam's bronze buttock
British police has arrested a 66-year-old man over claims that part of a bronze statue of Saddam Hussein, a buttock, was illegally brought over from Iraq after the war. He was held yesterday on suspicion of breaching the 2003Iraq Sanctions Order, which bans dealing in "illegally removed Iraqi cultural property", including items of archaeological, ...
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End of Iraq war: Welcome home, Obama tells US troops
President Barack Obama saluted returning troops returning from Iraq Wednesday, declaring that the nearly nine-year conflict is ending honorably, "not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home."
