Main Gulf port still blocked by protesters . Protesters occupy roads and bridges in Baghdad . ..…

The attack caused minor damage but temporarily halted oil flow through the important pipeline, which stretches from the Persian Gulf to the northern Red Sea. . May 19: A rocket landed near the United States Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq; an Iranian-backed militia was likely behind the attack. . ..…

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hakim said on Monday that Baghdad rejects the participation of Israel in any force to secure the passage of ships in Persian Gulf.. ..…

The edgy US-Iranian conflict took a new turn on Friday, July 19, with the anonymous drone attack on the pro-Iran Hashd Shaabi’s 52nd Brigade camp outside Amerli, a town in the Iraqi province of Salahudin northeast of Baghdad. Up until then, the targets of this measured, no-casualty conflict were..…

They may be telling him that Iran wo not respond to U.S attack by sinking every U.S ship and every oil tanker within its reach, shutting down Gulf to oil traffic with mines, raining down missiles on U.S bases and Green Zone Baghdad, attacking Israeli at Dimona with overwhelming barrage of..…

Assad’s war has been largely bankrolled by Tehran,[15] and his Russian and Iranian patrons are unlikely to be inclined or able to fund the enormous reconstruction costs, estimated to be between $250-300 billion.[16] A preliminary World Bank estimate of Iraqi reconstruction costs from February 2018 was $88..…

KDP and PUK Exchange Recriminations Ammar al-Hakim Threats to Oppose Government Iraq Continues Mediating Between Iran and Gulf States On June, Iraqi President Barham Salih met with German, French and UK ambassadors Baghdad. ..…

Last week a senior Pentagon official accused Iran of having sabotaged four oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on May 12 and of firing a rocket into Baghdad’s Green Zone on May 19. ..…

Most recently, Foreign Minister Zarif in meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih Baghdad on Saturday repeated the suggestion to Persian Gulf states to sign pact. ..…

'Iran is ready to sign non-aggression pacts with the Persian Gulf Arab states,' he said. . Before meeting al-Hakim, Zarif met with Iraqi President Barham Salih in Baghdad on Saturday. . ..…

Zarif said in Baghdad on Sunday that Iran has offered to sign non-aggression agreements with all countries in the Persian Gulf region and those offers are still on the table. . . . ..…

Speaking in news conference Baghdad with his Iraqi Mohammed al- Hakim, his country wanted to build balanced relations with its Gulf Arab neighbours and that it had proposed signing pact with them... ..…

Trump's comments came after he has sought to soften his tone on Iran recent days following heightened tension sparked by sudden deployment of U.S bombers and carrier to Persian Gulf over unspecified threats.. Iraq's military said Katyusha rocket that landed Baghdad's heavily fortified..…

Bush converted Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, into America's new official enemy as part of Persian Gulf intervention. Easily defeating Saddam's Third World War, Bush decided not to send U.S forces to Baghdad in operation. ..…

Baghdad is also seeking economic benefits from closer ties with Riyadh and other Gulf states as it attempts to address reform needs and curb corruption. . ..…

This approach came undone in June 2014 when ISIS sacked the Iraqi city of Mosul and raced south toward Baghdad. Iraq is an oil rich country strategically located at the top of the Persian Gulf. ..…

This roughly coincided with a couple of small rocket attacks against Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and the airport in Basra, Iraq’s Persian Gulf port city, neither of which caused any casualties. ..…

This roughly coincided with a couple of small rocket attacks against Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and the airport in Basra, Iraq’s Persian Gulf port city, neither of which caused any casualties. ..…

This roughly coincided with a couple of small rocket attacks  Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and  in Basra, Iraq’s Persian Gulf port city, neither of which caused any casualties.   . , however, Pompeo blamed Iran for the attacks, which he called “life-threatening,” adding,..…

This roughly coincided with a couple of small rocket attacks against Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and the airport in Basra, Iraq’s Persian Gulf port city, neither of which caused any casualties.  ..…

This order would undermine the Trump administration’s strategy in the Middle East and the Gulf. The US grants substantial financial and military support to Baghdad to secure a linchpin for this strategy against Tehran’s grab for dominant influence in the Iraqi capital. . ..…

On January 16, 1991, with Iraqi troops still ensconced Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, led by American General Norman Schwarzkopf and joined by thirty-two UN countries, commenced with the aircraft being launched from Persian Gulf, headed for Baghdad. ..…

He is best known as the “butcher of Baghdad,” responsible for the deaths of some 200,000 Iraqis during the first Gulf War in 1991 — which was dominated by the most intensive aerial bombardment in the history of war. ..…

-led forces routed Iraq’s army in the Gulf War, driving it from Kuwait while stopping short of taking Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. ..…

After Bush emphatically said Saddam's aggression 'will not stand,' US-led forces routed Iraq's army in the Gulf War, driving it from Kuwait while stopping short of taking Baghdad, Iraq's capital. ..…

After Bush emphatically said Saddam's aggression 'will not stand,' US-led forces routed Iraq's army in the Gulf War, driving it from Kuwait while stopping short of taking Baghdad, Iraq's capital. . ..…

-led forces routed Iraq’s army in the Gulf War, driving it from Kuwait while stopping short of taking Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. ..…

When asked, Bush defends his father's decision not to carry the 1991 Persian Gulf war to Baghdad. ..…

'We vigorously condemn the terrorist bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad,' the newspaper said. . ... Gulf Times . Qatar . The devastating truck-bomb attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad yesterday afternoon, which killed top U.N. representative Sergio Vieira de Mello..…

A war, which would involve U.S. warships against swarms of Iranian torpedo boats, could shut down the Persian Gulf to oil traffic and produce a crisis in the global economy. Anti-American Shiite jihadists in Beirut, Baghdad, and Bahrain could attack U.S. civilian and military personnel. . ..…

At the time, Mohammed Sadeq al-Hosseini, adviser to former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, stated, “We in the axis of resistance are the new sultans of the Mediterranean and the Gulf. We in Tehran, Damascus, [Hezbollah’s] southern suburb of Beirut, Baghdad and Sanaa will shape the..…

Press TV, Baghdad . Senior Iraqi lawmakers have rejected a decision by the Persian Gulf Arab states to designate the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. ..…

The titles of many of the volume’s articles testify to the fact that Desert Slaughter has stood the test of time: “Media Lies—A Weapon of Imperialist War,” “The Gulf War and the Petty-Bourgeois ‘Left,’” “Prowar Union Bureaucracy Polices the Working Class,” and “The Persian Gulf..…

One of the few things it was in complete harmony on was the belief that American troops should not go on to Baghdad at the end of Persian Gulf War in 1991. ..…

Specter readily conceded the difficulties of capturing the Iraqi dictator who eluded efforts by U.S. forces to track him and destroy his command bunker during the Gulf War. . ``We could hardly go to Baghdad and try to take him into custody,'' said Specter, a former chairman of the Senate..…