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Premium Content Iran Expands Its Sphere Of Influence With Iraqi Energy Deals By Simon Watkins - Jan 14, 2021, 3:00 PM CST Iraq announced two deals with countries that Iran hopes can be gradually moved further into its sphere of influence. One of the two, Lebanon, is already seen by Tehran as a key player in the Shia crescent of power that it has been meticulously developing for years - as a counterpoint to the U.S.’s own sphere of influence centred on Saudi Arabia - that stretches ...

Antiwar.com Original seven were killed, and six were wounded in recent violence, while 93 bodies were recovered in Mosul: Authorities in Mosul reported that 93 bodies have recently been recovered from the war rubble. The bodies were recovered from separate locations during reconstruction efforts. Many of the victims probably died during the liberation of Mosul from Islamic State militants. Thousands of bodies have been found in the rubble or in mass graves there since 2017, when ISIS was final...

Do Americans Really Care About War Crimes? By Jared Keller On Tuesday, the White House announced a list of pardons and clemencies granted by Trump, a standard occurrence in the twilight days of a presidency before a new administration takes office. Included in the list of pardons, however, were some standouts: the president had authorized pardons for four former U.S. service members who were convicted of killing civilians in Iraq while working there as contractors for the notorious defense g...

Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians by US contractors stir angry response 23 Dec, 2020 11:03 PM 6 minutes to read Other The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four US government contractors convicted in shootings that killed that child and more than a dozen other Iraqi civilians. "Whats the difference," Mohammad Kinani al-Razzaq asked a Washington judge at an emotional 2015 sentencing hearing, "between these criminals ...

Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors in killing of Iraqi civilians stir angry response By Eric Tucker and Ellen Knickmeyer Published  article FILE - Tribal elder Mohammed Shafi stands in the Yaka Toot cemetary near the grave of Romal, 22, who was killed by Blackwater (now known as Xe) security forces in an incident that enraged area residents. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pl...

President Donald Trumps decision to pardon four Blackwater military contractors has been met with criticism  Mohammad Kinani al-Razzaq, whose 9-year-old was killed, said Trumps pardon broke my life again The men were involved in a 2007 incident in Baghdad and would  later be charged in the deaths of 14 civilians Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Trump pardoned the men to make Iraqi relations more difficult for President-elect Joe Biden  

Premium Content A Controversial New Power Grid Divides The Middle East By Simon Watkins - Dec 22, 2020, 6:00 PM CST More details have emerged on the Iraq-Jordan electricity power grid that is fast becoming a highly controversial project due to Iraq’s persistent political game-playing with both the U.S. and Iran. According to comments last week from the director general of Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO), Amjad Rawashdeh, preparations are now underway for the tend...

Iraqis Not Surprised by US Pardon of Blackwater Killers Dima Abumaria 12/23/2020 Military contractors convicted in 2007 Nisour Square massacre go free, but ordinary Iraqis more concerned about political upheaval in their own country. US President Donald Trump pardoned the four former American security contractors convicted in US federal court in the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including two children, in Baghdad. They were part of a wave of pardons issued Tuesday by Trump, mad...

Abu Dhabi: Saudi authorities have foiled attempts to smuggle and sell nearly 19 million amphetamine tablets and arrested 16 accused people including 10 citizens and 6 residents, spokesman for the General Directorate for Narcotics Control, Captain Mohammad bin Khalid Al Najidi, said. The Narcotics Control Department said a five-member gang, whose Saudi members were allegedly involved in receiving and promoting narcotic substances, was busted in Riyadh and nearly 10 million amphetamine tablets hi...

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