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3 wounded in southern Syria after shots fired at protesters at ruling party's local headquarters
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSecurity guards from the Syrian president's Baath party on Wednesday fired shots at protesters...
Opinion: For Iraqis like me, the U.S. invasion 20 years ago isn't a distant memory — it's our daily...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn Iraqi family grieves after three relatives were shot dead by U.S. Marines on April 9, 2003....
Syria's Assad's ruling party shut by protests in rebellious Druze city
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoProtesters demanding an end to authoritarian rule shut the ruling Baath party headquarters in the...
Two decades after Saddam's fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen he first heard that U.S. troops had toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraqi engineer Hazem Mohammed...
Three wounded as gunshots disperse anti-govt protest in Syria's Sweida
Reuters via AOL· 9 months agoBEIRUT (Reuters) -Three people were wounded on Wednesday when bullets were sprayed at anti-government protesters in the southern Syrian city of Sweida, activists and local journalists said, ...
Aziz Saleh al-Numan, ‘King of Diamonds’ in the infamous Iraqi ‘deck of cards’ – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAziz Saleh al-Numan, the “King of Diamonds”, who has died aged 82, figured among the elite of Saddam...
Residents in southern Syria raid ruling party offices, block road as protests over economy intensify
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAngry protesters raided the local offices of the ruling Baath party in a southern Syrian province...
Syrians rally in south against Assad, economic decline
Reuters via AOL· 10 months agoHundreds gathered in southern Syria on Friday urging President Bashar al-Assad to step down, capping...
Saddam Hussein's golden AK-47 going on display at U.K. museum
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA gold-plated AK-47 believed to have been owned by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to go on...
20 years on, George W. Bush's promise of democracy in Iraq and Middle East falls short
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn Iraqi person walks down a road blocked by burning tires in Basra in August 2002. Hussein...