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Five books about Iraq, a cradle of civilisation and catastrophe
The Economist· 41 minutes agoALTHOUGH IT IS beginning to recover, Iraq is still suffering from the wars of the past decades. In...
They survived a chemical weapons massacre, but Halabja’s victims still suffer its poisonous legacy
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe wards in Halabja’s only hospital overflowed with patients in the days after the attack, so the...
The pilgrimage sites of Iraq's timeless and holy cities
BBC News· 6 hours agoTravellers to what was once was the spiritual centre of the world can learn about the region's long...
Anatomy of a Massacre | by Shlomo Ben-Ami - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 7 hours agoIt was the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, not the mastery of its imperial heyday, that opened...
Iraq: Policing The Blood Lands
Strategy Page· 4 days agoApril 23, 2020: ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is still the greatest security threat and so far this year has killed 170 civilians and security personnel. A covid19 death can easily be mistaken for pneumonia.
Howard Fineman, political correspondent with analytical eye, dies at 75
Washington Post· 2 days agoHoward Fineman, a Newsweek political correspondent and television commentator for decades who...
Sorry, you can't play as Margaret Thatcher in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Eurogamer· 5 days agoThatcher in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Despite promising signs in the initial reveal trailer from...
Why Israel will never back down
The Hill· 23 hours agoWhen I visited the kibbutz in December, 75 days after Hamas terrorists murdered 61 of its 950 residents and kidnapped 19, I was stunned by how short the...
When the C.I.A. Messes Up
The New Yorker· 4 days agoDiem may have been the “miracle man of Vietnam,” as Life called him, but he was a Catholic in a Buddhist country, and the things that helped him in Washington hurt him in Saigon. The C.I.A.’ ...
PROGRESS 2024: Veteran Spotlight – Tony Chard - Franklin County Times
The Franklin County Times· 21 hours agoTony Chard was 18 years old, approaching his graduation from Coffee High School in Florence and...
