The ancient city of Babylon in southern Iraq is considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. But that prestigious title doesn't seem to bother the country's booming oil industry. The country's government has built a pipeline through the archaeological site, claiming nothing historic ha...
2 million Iraqis go hungry as oil output hits 30 year high To see more go to www.youtube.com Follow us on Facebook (goo.gl or Twitter (www.twitter.com Since the US pulled out of Iraq, the country has been chaotic. Contrary to what the US are saying, mass poverty, clashes between Sunnis and Shiite...
journeymanpicturesSeven years after the invasion of Baghdad, the Iraqi people are experiencing a devastating legacy. Babies are being born with severe deformities and cancer at a rate, which makes the effects of Hiroshima look tame. "Here look at her. So many things are wrong with her. It's all because of the figh...
journeymanpicturesUnited Nations, New York, April 2012 - Iraq's elections have helped move it towards democracy, but the on-going violence, extremism and chaos still threaten the nation's most vulnerable citizens: women and children. Amid this turmoil, many courageous Iraqis are striving to protect their human rig...
unitednationsIan Welch was on his first combat tour in Iraq, waiting to storm across the Diyala Bridge and seize Baghdad, when an artillery round exploded behind him--changing his life forever. Now he and his girlfriend Katie are hoping love can change it back. Photos, Audio and Video by Brandon Thibodeaux - ...
wsjdigitalnetworkA video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government. (April 7) Subscribe to the Associated Press: bit.ly Download AP Mobile: www.ap.org Associated Pres...
associatedpressRussia's Lukoil begins pumping from a major Iraqi oil field. CNN's John Defterios talks with Manouchehr Takin about it.
cnnA series of blasts across Iraq have killed at least 35 and left another 100 people injured. In Baghdad, five separate blasts targeted the capital's Shia-majority neighbourhoods. The country's health minister was injured in one Baghdad explosion. In the north, two car bombs went off in Kirkuk. In ...
aljazeeraenglishRights groups criticise government for not investigating alleged killings.
aljazeeraenglishAs Iraq's government has put national reconciliation talks on hold, we discuss the issues behind the growing divisions.
aljazeeraenglishInterpol, the Lyon-based police organisation, is appealling to all countries to help arrest the Iraqi Vice President, Tariq al-Hashemi. Hashemi denies charges of organising attacks and death squads during Iraq's civil war. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Amman.
aljazeeraenglishThe long-running feud over oil money between Iraq and its autonomous Kurdish region is deepening. The Kurds have halted fuel deliveries, claiming the government's failed to pay up for nearly a year. But Baghdad accuses them of denying the country of the vital revenue it gets for then exporting th...
russiatodaySyria is going to be at the top of the agenda during an Arab League summit in Baghdad later this month. It will be the first meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Iraq since 1990 - just after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
aljazeeraenglishIraq's Kurdish government has stopped all oil exports to Baghdad following a payment dispute. It is just one issue in the past weeks that is causing tensions between the Kurds in the north and the central authority. There are concerns that a push to sell crude oil to Kurdish markets from what is ...
aljazeeraenglishIraq sees surge in bombings after US withdrawal To see more go to www.youtube.com Follow us on Facebook (goo.gl or Twitter (www.twitter.com As Sunni-led violence returns to Iraq we take a look at life in the Sunni heartland of Tikrit. The population are deeply unhappy with the Shia government and...
journeymanpicturesThe last US military convoy has left Iraq's territory on Sunday, finalizing the pullout. The motorcade of 110 armored vehicles carrying 500 officers and soldiers, accompanied by a helicopter patrol, has crossed into Kuwait. The nine-year war and occupation cost 4500 American lives and 500 of the ...
russiatodayDespite a lack of concrete evidence, the Western powers and their allies have continued to accuse Iran of developing nuclear weapons. A series of events including the bombing of Israeli embassies, threatening to cut oil exports to the UK and loading fuel rods in a research reactor have many feeli...
rtamericaThe men and women hoping to become the next President of the US appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world, as they do their political credentials. But as RT's Anastasia Churkina found out, that could just be a reflection of society. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Fa...
russiatodayArab League leaders meeting in Iraq have called on the Syrian government to implement a UN-backed peace plan "immediately and completely", as they met for a summit in the capital Baghdad. Nine heads of state and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were among those attending the opening of the summit...
The world's media is flooded with stories and images allegedly depicting the bloody results of the Syrian army's assault on the city of Homs. But few have compared the clashes to the massacre in Fallujah, Iraq, which happened nearly ten years ago and saw US troops fighting alongside the governmen...
russiatodayVideos posted by Harper's Magazine show the private contractor formerly known as Blackwater in Iraq running over a woman with a car, smashing into Iraqis' cars to move them out of the way and firing a rifle into traffic. The behavior by Blackwater seen in the videos adds even more fuel to evidenc...
annynameatallFor the Yazidi, this is the start of year 6762, and they have travelled to Lalesh, in northern Iraq, from mountain villages, towns and cities in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Europe to celebrate. Yazidis believe in the same God as Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but they believe they were the first peo...
Despite the US's declared withdrawal of its military personnel and contractors out of Iraq, Washington has prepared to control the country's rich oil reserves in any case, shared Ranjit Singh Kalha, former India's ambassador to Iraq in the 1990s. Having spent $3 trillion in Iraq, a country with h...
russiatodayWearing a US Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted US troops. (March 17) Download AP Mobile: www.ap.org Associated Press on Facebook: apn...
associatedpressDemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans For Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. Iraq Veterans Against the W...
democracynowNibras Sadoun literally adopted the issue of autism in Iraq. While conducting field research in special education, she took in an autistic child who had been abandoned by his mother. Now Sadoun oversees six countrywide offices of Al Rahman Institute, which is named after her son. The institute he...
aljazeeraenglishDesigned by a famed French architect, built under Saddam Hussein and then forgotten: this is the fate of a gym in Baghdad, which Iraq is seeking, with the help of France, to restore to its former fame. Duration: 01:53



