Wednesday, 30 April 2008 | By Patrick Cockburn
Why are we asking this now?
Tariq Aziz, the most articulate spokesman for Saddam Hussein's regime, went on trial in Baghdad yesterday. The 72-year-old is accused of being responsible for the execution in 1992 of 42 merchants, who allegedly raised food prices for no reason at a time when Iraq was under international sanctions.
January 11, 2008| By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN — Using strict enforcement of Islamic law, the judicial authorities in a restive region of southern Iran amputated the right hands and left feet of five convicted robbers this week, part of what the government said was an effort to deter other troublemakers.
April 7, 2008
ERBIL, Iraq, April 7 (UPI) -- With aid from the Kurdistan government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers helped open a government complex less than a year after an explosion ripped it apart.
May 29, 2008 | By Liam Stack | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
At a United Nations conference in Sweden Thursday, Iraq appealed for debt forgiveness to boost development.
7 March 2008
The top US commander in the Middle East has suggested that dialogue between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) would solve Turkey's problem with terrorism, a strong sign that an earlier call for talks with the PKK from a senior US commander was not a slip of tongue.
Wed October 29, 2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition troops formally handed over control of Iraq's Wasit province to the Iraqi government Wednesday.
By Abbas William Samii
During the last week of May, thousands of Iranians demonstrated in the northwestern city of Tabriz, and the previous week there were protests at universities in five cities. The protests were triggered by the official government newspaper - the Islamic Republic News Agency's Iran - publishing a cartoon which depicts a boy repeating "cockroach" in Persian before a giant bug in front of him asks "What?" in Azeri.
Aug. 2, 2007 | Ben Lando, UPI Energy Correspondent
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi Kurdistan oil minister says progress on a regional oil law shows "democracy at work," but final approval will be next week at the earliest.
