Tag: Iraq

Amman, Jordan —  While the Islamic State terror group continues to lose influence in Iraq, U.S. Major General Matthew W. McFarlane recently warned that IS remnants still pose a threat to areas not under the protection of the U.S.-led coalition, including parts of Syria. Analysts see Islamic State expanding ...

EXPLAINERThe Quran is Islam’s holy book, the primary source of guidance and law for Muslims across the world.Demonstrations have been held in several Muslim countries in recent weeks in response to the repeated desecration and burning of the Quran in Sweden and Denmark. Muslim nations have been swift to ...

Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Koran in Sweden, a day after protesters stormed the country's embassy in Iraq. The protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran that followed weekly ...

A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden has sparked an angry reaction in Muslim countries and raised questions – including in Sweden – about why such acts are allowed.In the latest such incident, an Iraqi living in Sweden on ...

Muslim nations have expressed outrage since Salwan Momika desecrated the holy book in Stockholm last month.Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire. Supporters of the influential Iraqi Shia religious and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ...

Iraqi protesters breached Sweden's embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world. Issued on: 30/06/2023 - 00:23 A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stayed inside the compound for about 15 minutes, then ...

Washington, DC – Two decades ago, on May 1, 2003, then-US President George W Bush declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with a banner behind him proclaiming “mission accomplished”. The theatrical event, coming just 43 days after the United ...

A rebellion is brewing. The United States dollar has ruled the financial world for nearly eight decades since the end of World War II. Now, another war is setting the stage for many countries to explore a move away from the dollar for trade, raising questions over the currency’s ...

https://sputniknews.com/20230302/bipartisan-us-senate-group-says-its-able-to-end-force-authorizations-behind-1991-2003-iraq-wars-1107955926.htmlBipartisan US Senate Group Says It's Able to End Force Authorizations Behind 1991, 2003 Iraq WarsBipartisan US Senate Group Says It's Able to End Force Authorizations Behind 1991, 2003 Iraq WarsUS Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Wednesday that the upper chamber could soon consider ending the ...

ROME — Police in Italy have arrested three people on suspicion of people-trafficking following the deaths of at least 64 migrants in a shipwreck off the country’s southern coast on Sunday.The three detained were a Turkish man and two Pakistani nationals. Most of those on the wooden vessel, thought ...