Crime Sep 30, 2013

Australia central bank subsidiary in Hussein link

The Reserve Bank of Australia on Monday admitted that staffers from a subsidiary had visited Iraq at the height of U.N. sanctions after it was accused of attempting to strike an illegal deal with Saddam Hussein. A joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ...

World Sep 22, 2013

Suicide bombers strike Iraqi funeral; one-day death toll at 96

Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 96 people around Iraq ...

World Sep 15, 2013

Iraq, Libya loom over quest to rid nation of chemical arms

by Joby Warrick

When Moammar Gadhafi renounced chemical weapons in 2003, the Libyan dictator surprised skeptics by moving quickly to eliminate his country’s toxic arsenal. He signed international treaties, built a disposal facility and allowed inspectors to oversee the destruction of tons of mustard gas. But Gadhafi’s ...

World Sep 15, 2013

Iraqi Kurd nature reserve looks to shed violent past

Near Iraq’s northernmost point, close to Turkey and Iran, a national park of snow-capped peaks and forested valleys is drawing tourists and researchers keen to explore a hardly touched land. But this region of outstanding natural beauty has also been scarred by war, and ...

World | ANALYSIS Aug 29, 2013

West missed chances to cut arsenal

by Simeon Bennett

The United States and its allies may be headed for a war that they could have tried harder to prevent. The failure since the 1970s to put more pressure on Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons, plus American support for Iraq even after it ...

World Aug 28, 2013

Strike on Syria could draw U.S. into protracted conflict

An imminent U.S. strike on Syrian government targets in response to the alleged gassing of civilians last week has the potential to draw the United States into the country's civil war, former U.S. officials say.

World Aug 27, 2013

Chemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles

by Ernesto Londono

The shelling of suburban Damascus with a suspected nerve agent last week was potentially the third large-scale use of a chemical weapon in the Middle East and may have broken the longest period in history without such an attack. If confirmed, the attack, which ...

World Aug 18, 2013

U.N. still feels impact of deadly Iraq blast 10 years on

A massive Baghdad bombing a decade ago, termed “the 9/11 of the U.N.,” killed 22 people and drove heightened security measures that ultimately limited interactions with ordinary Iraqis. On Aug. 19, 2003, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged truck next to the Canal Hotel, ...

World Aug 12, 2013

Al-Qaida group claims deadly attacks in Iraq

An al-Qaida front group on Sunday claimed a wave of attacks that killed dozens of people during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, and Iraqis angrily blamed authorities for failing to prevent the violence. The international community condemned the attacks, which killed 74 people and wounded ...