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Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. U.S. military success in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, Wardak said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in Afghanistan, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.


Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:01:57 GMT

British soldiers fill up the entrenchment of an Iraqi army camp with soil in Karmat Ali, northeast of Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad April 13, 2008. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - It is critical for Iraq to reach an agreement in the next few weeks permitting British troops to stay in the country after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of this year, a British Foreign Office minister said Tuesday.


Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:55:37 GMT
Iraq opened bidding Monday on the first round of contracts to develop its oil fields since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a move intended to jump-start a sector crucial to the country's rebuilding.
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:46:00 GMT
The Times Newspaper reported a US official as saying that the United States plans to fill the vacuum left by Britain when it withdraws all its troops from southern Iraq. The Newspaper noted that the US will deploy around 3000 soldiers in southern Iraq and will establish a Brigade or Division center ...
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:29:00 GMT

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An increasing number of Kuwaiti firms are taking part in the massive reconstruction programme being carried out in war-torn Iraq.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. In a demons...
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:20:28 -0400
Nearly 400 unemployed Iraqis secured short-term work cleaning up a central Iraqi city.
Iraq's Education Management Information System (EMIS) continues to advance.
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