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Iran’s regional centrality and isolation

The U.S. has a tough choice between its strategic objectives in West Asia and the implications of Iran’s location

The Hindu

Revolutionary Guards Say Colonel Assassinated in Tehran

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that one of its officers, Colonel Sayad Khodai, was killed in a rare assassination in Tehran. Khodai was "one of the defenders of the shrines", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, referring to military personnel or advisers who Iran says fight on its behalf…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Margaret Beckett is still wrong about the Iraq war and WMD claims

Letter: Frank Jackson on the former Labour deputy leader’s recollections about the 2003 Iraq war

The Guardian - UK

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Revolutionary Guards say colonel assassinated in Tehran

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that one of its officers, Colonel Sayad Khodai, was killed in a rare assassination in Tehran.

Reuters

Iraq trial of Briton and German for antiquity theft adjourned

Baghdad (AFP) - An Iraqi court on Sunday adjourned for two weeks the trial of a Briton and a German man accused of trying to smuggle antiquities after a defence lawyer called for more investigations.

AFP

Worlds apart: 24 hours with two refugees in Poland

An Iraqi Kurd and a Ukrainian, part of families with young children, take us through a day in their lives as refugees.

Al Jazeera

British man faces further two-week wait as Iraqi court postpones smuggling case

Retired geologist Jim Fitton has been accused of trying to take artefacts out of the country.

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Iraqi court postpones smuggling case against Briton, German

An Iraqi court has postponed the trial of two European tourists charged with antiquities smuggling after their lawyers argued more information was needed about the ancient shards found in their possession

The Independent UK

Erbil Requests a UN Envoy to Organize Relations with Iraq

The Presidency of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq announced that the Security Council approved a request submitted by Erbil to send a UN envoy to organize the relationship with Baghdad and find radical solutions for their differences. The Presidency said in a statement that Council members expressed their support of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Increase gas and oil? Absolutely not

Author of "The World Without Us" on his recent trip to Iraq — and why the Ukraine war is no excuse to pump more oil

Salon

For Iraqis back from Syria, life on hold in 'rehabilitation' camp

JADAA CAMP (Iraq) (AFP) - Awatef Massud is longing to reunite with her Iraqi family after years spent in Syria, but first she must do time in a vetting camp to ensure she has no links to jihadists.

AFP

The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president’s 2003 invasion of Iraq

The Guardian - US

Turkey Accuses SDF of Obstructing Voluntary Return of Syrian Refugees

Turkey accused the Kurdish forces in Syria of obstructing the return of Syrian refugees, noting that it had begun working with Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon to secure their “voluntary return.” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stressed that his country will continue its war against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG),…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Key Iraq irrigation reservoir close to drying out

Hamrin (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraq's Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday.

AFP

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The Guardian - US

Stephen Colbert on Bush’s gaffe: ‘A refreshingly lighthearted confession to war crimes’

Late-night hosts discuss Bush accidentally calling the invasion of Iraq ‘wholly unjustified and brutal’, and Roe v Wade

AFP

Iraq's communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab dies aged 88

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's renowned communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab, who faced jail time and exile in the 1960s, died Friday in an Emirati hospital aged 88, Iraqi authorities announced.

The Independent UK

Blowback as Bush gaffes Iraq war, not Ukraine, 'unjustified'

Former President George W

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Sanctions Lebanese Businessman, his Firms over Hezbollah Ties

The US Treasury Department on Thursday issued new Hezbollah-related sanctions, designating Lebanese businessman and the Iran-backed group's financial facilitator, Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah, and his companies. Abdallah, five of his associates and eight of his companies in Lebanon and Iraq were sanctioned and added to the sanctions list of the…

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George W Bush accidentally admits Iraq war was ‘unjustified and brutal’ in gaffe

Former president makes slip when speaking at his presidential library in Dallas on Wednesday

AFP

Trawling Iraq's threatened marshes to collect plastic waste

Chibayish (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraq's vast swamplands are the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, but the waterways are drying out and becoming so clogged with waste their very existence is at risk, activists warn.

Salon

Bush condemns "brutal invasion of Iraq"

"Iraq too," Bush added to laughs from the crowd, leaving critics stunned and aghast

AFP

Bush gaffe on 'unjustified' war draws Iraqi ire

Baghdad (AFP) - An embarrassing slip of the tongue by former US president George W. Bush may have drawn laughter from his American audience, but it raised the ire of Iraqis.

WEKU

Trying to condemn the war in Ukraine, Bush inadvertently calls Iraq war unjustified

In a speech, Bush criticized "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean of Ukraine."

Al Jazeera

‘Freudian slip’: Bush decries ‘invasion of Iraq’ – not Ukraine

Former US President George W Bush appears to admit 2003 invasion of Iraq was ‘wholly unjustified, brutal’ in speech.

The National (Scotland)

George Bush accidentally condemns 'unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq'

FORMER president of America George Bush has accidentally condemned the “unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq” - a war he initiated.

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