Sentences with phrase «iraq since»

The defendant had been conducting a permanent demonstration in Parliament Square against the government's policy on Iraq since June 2001.

As to Security Council authority, Chilcot has surely examined the tangled history of Security Council involvement with Iraq since Saddam Hussein launched his own invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Brian Haw has been demonstrating in Parliament Square against the government's policy on Iraq since June 2001.

Sudanese cameraman Sami al - Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al - Jazeera, has been held without trial since June 2002 at the US military base at Guantanamo, and Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been held by US authorities in Iraq since April this year.»

I would have absolutely voted no to invading Iraq since after extensive searches the UN found no WMD.

lets see just got back from a fun filled year in iraq since im a cav scout in 3rd herd b trp 1 - 32 101st abn div thing is i really do nt care as much as i should about alot of differant things most of which i should care about, but really i just try to

Despite this, they have seen regular use in Iraq since 2006.

«It's horrific,» says archaeologist McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Iraq since the 1960s.

Iraqi ecosystems continued to deteriorate with the 1990 — 1991 Gulf War and the myriad problems in Iraq since.

Tony Blair has said he «regretted deeply and profoundly the loss of life» in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

As mentioned, hundreds of thousands of people have fled northern Iraq since June.

However, World Vision has been responding to the needs of those displaced by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq since 2011.

We attacked Iraq since we wanted to take revenge what happend in September 11, instead of fcocusing in Afganistan.

A new report estimates that between half and 80 per cent of Christians have left Syria and Iraq since the Syrian civil war started in 2011.

Known as the «vicar of Baghdad», Canon Andrew White has lived in Iraq since 2005 and made the brave decision earlier this year to stay and support the Christians that remain.

Kurdish soldiers, militia groups and coalition airstrikes led by the United States have been fighting back against the extremist organisation in Iraq since it began capturing towns and cities in the country.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

According to CNN, 16,000 units have been distributed around the world — including in Iraq, Djibouti, Greece, and Niger — since 2015.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

The company, which builds everything from weapons systems and munitions to ships and combat vehicles, has seen its combat segment sales fall 40 % since 2009 — a direct result of the U.S. withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, says Nicholas Stark, an investment analyst with American Century Investments.

This is no small matter to a country that already has spent literally trillions of dollars - and suffered the loss of nearly 7,000 military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq - since former Republican President George W. Bush launched the war on terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

Since launching airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq last month, Obama has stressed his military operations against the group are «targeted.»

Since 2012, Acapulco, which has been called «Guerrero's Iraq,» has been the most violent city in Mexico, and among the most violent cities in the world, with homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people each year.

General Dempsey's remarks come a week after ISIS made some of its most significant gains since it rampaged through Iraq last summer.

The ScanEagle has flown 800,000 hours since being introduced 10 years ago, much of that time carrying out surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Carey, who teamed up with the United Services Organization, has since visited military bases in Iraq to perform comedy for troops stationed there.

Despite the nearly nine years that have passed since 9/11, we are still living in a society largely molded by political events in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Israel.

On Monday, WTI closed at US$ 52.22 a barrel, up by 3 percent, while Brent crude settled at US$ 59.02 — its highest since July 2015 — on the back of growing optimism that the OPEC production cut deal is finally having a palpable effect on global supplies of crude oil, and the equally growing worry that the Middle East could be in for more tensions — this time between the Kurdish nation and the countries it inhabits, following an independence referendum in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq.

Possibly the only trustworthy large publications I've seen since the hoodwinking of the first Iraq war were Counterpunch and ForeignPolicy (with the exception of Max Boot who is the «token neocon access») with a slight nod to the fair - weatherness of the Jerusalem Post.

This all changes following the Paris attacks - the worst bloodshed in France since the second World War - which were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

As President Donald Trump prepares to welcome his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, for the first ever state visit of his presidency, Paris and Washington are closer now than they have been since the early days of the Iraq War.

Fifteen years have passed since President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and a coterie of neoconservatives launched the invasion of Iraq with a murderous bombardment of Baghdad.

Although there has also been a very slight fall in US crude oil production since the start of the year -LRB--1.6 %), with more Iranian and Iraq crude coming online and the demand fundamentals not improving, a significant price rise by the end of the year is unlikely.

Having peaked ahead of the Iraq war and fallen sharply following its commencement, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil has since risen again, amidst uncertainty about the resumption and continuity of Iraqi export supply.

The region has been aligned to the US since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Thanks to rising production from Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) production is up more than 1.5 million barrels per day since the start of the year, according to Bloomberg data.

A boost in production can not happen without a substantial increase in water supply, and since Iraq has scarce freshwater resources, processed seawater is the only option.

And this is to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of Christians who have become refugees since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Since their sudden rise to power in Iraq, the rebels have been so savage that even al Qaeda has renounced them.

Since the fall of Sadam Hussain after the US led invasion of 2003 the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from more than 1.5 million to 400,000.

How odd, since Obama repeatedly insisted during the campaign that Afghanistan was a «war of necessity» (and hence the good war) unlike Iraq, which was a «war of choice», (which was Bush's bad war).

Since then we have seen major wars in Korea and Vietnam, Iraq and Yugoslavia, and more Arab - Israeli wars than can easily be counted.

Among them will be Iraq's Father Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest who was kidnapped, tortured, and shot before being released for ransom and who now cares for 500 ISIS survivors, and the daughters of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother on death row since 2010, for blasphemy against Islam.

Ah, yes, I remember what is was like to post doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq after 9 - 11, since Osama bin Ladin was a Saudi.

Since the fall of Mosul to Sunni militants in June, the world has struggled to accept the failure of the American project in Iraq, the rise of «political Islam» and the marking of Iraqi Christians and other minorities for death or expropriation.

Yet the latest violence against Christians, for all its horror, is merely the most recent - not simply in the seven years since the U.S. - led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, but in the almost two thousand years of Christian presence in Iraq.

The site Faithwire reports that since 2003, the Christian population in Iraq has dropped dramatically.

Didion's point is that this tendency has flattened discussion since 9/11, and has created a government in which Democrats, with few exceptions, either have remained silent or have supported whatever the president wants with respect to foreign policy — the congressional vote on war powers in regard to Iraq being the, prime example.

I'm not claiming that Saddam Hussein was a «good guy» mind you, his regime threatened regional stability since the beginning but arguably things there have gone from bad to worse since the US decision to invade Iraq.

It is only since the first World War that there has been a revival in Iraq.