Sentences with phrase «day iraq»

At its heart is the parable of a wealthy man named Ali Hafed who lived near the Indus River in present - day Iraq.

Nimrud, Assyria (modern - day Iraq).

These are the forms of Iris barnumea and Campanula acutiloba, among many others, native species from the area in and around the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in present day Iraq.

The work is an attempt to archive plants belonging to regions around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers — present day Iraq — that have been destroyed by Saddam Hussein's government.

From Western Asia, the museum's most significant holdings include ninth - century BCE Assyrian stone reliefs from the ancient palace of Ashurnasirpal II in present - day Iraq.

The first recorded bond in history dates back to 2400 B.C. — a stone discovered at Nippur, in Mesopotamia, now present - day Iraq.

What if the Great Flood was local and only affected those in present day Iraq.

The film stars Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, a writer, archaeologist, explorer, and political operative who played a crucial role in forming the borders of modern - day Iraq.

One of the most celebrated artifacts in mathematics is a palm - sized cuneiform tablet made during the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4000 years ago in modern - day Iraq.

A Marsh Arab (Ma «dan) woman carries freshly cut reeds, the traditional construction material of mats, baskets, and houses in the Mesopotamian Marshes of modern day Iraq.

A sophisticated invention The tablet has long been in the collection at the British Museum in London, and it was likely created in Babylon (located in modern - day Iraq) between 350 and 50 B.C. Ossendrijver recently deciphered the text, and he described his discovery in an article that's featured on the cover of the journal Science this week.

They may be the oldest known from this early city, located in present - day Iraq.

Wheat and barley were already grown 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a sickle - shaped region stretching from present - day Iraq and Iran through Turkey and Syria into Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.

Thus, cities such as Kish, Lagash, Umma, Ur and Uruk in present - day Iraq and Chuera, Ebla, Mari, Nagar, Urkesh, Nabada and Tuttul in northern Syria came into being.

Stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia (present - day Iraq), the road passed the overlook city, Megiddo, making the community atop the mound a player in the history of wars and men.

One day in the first century, BCE, a young Jewish man left his home in Babylonia, present day Iraq, and made the perilous five hundred mile journey to the holy city of Jerusalem in the land of Israel.

I know it's theorized that the garden of eden was between the tigris and euphrates in modern day iraq, then again, I can also theorize that narnia's entrance is somewhere outside of London, England.

Christians believe that the actual Garden of Eden was located in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) despite «The Book of Genesis» not specifically stating a physical geographic location.

The first recorded human civilization started in Mesopotamia... modern day Iraq.

Assyria was in modern day Iraq, so maybe I could have said Make Iraq Great Again.

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.

At the end of the day, I have more appreciation for being able to make an impact on someone's life than I have for helping to liberate Iraq in one war.

Pipeline outages in Iraq and Nigeria have removed more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the market for at least the next two weeks.

But — and here's an analogy I'll probably never get to make again — it reminds me of my days writing about military counterinsurgency and the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

The executive order put a 120 - day hold on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, and a 90 - day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Enforcement of the revised order — imposing a 90 - day ban on travel from Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, but not Iraq — was to take effect March 16.

They included 1987 (biggest one - day stock market crash in history); 1990 (Iraq and then the United States invaded Kuwait, sending oil prices up and causing a recession); 2001 and 2002 (the dot - com crash and September 11 created two years of market losses); and 2008 (the Great Recession).

Trump's executive order barred people from seven majority - Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria — from traveling to the United States for 90 days.

The order, signed on January 27, denied entry to citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and suspended the admissions of refugees for 120 days.

Trump's directive, which he said was necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants, barred people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Major Brian de Leon, a 15 - year veteran of the Army with three tours of duty in Iraq, arrived at Wexley's Seattle offices in April and has been spending three days a week with the company's creative team.

Al - Baghdadi's purported appearance in Mosul came five days after his group declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria.

Army Maj. D.J. Skelton refers to the day he was wounded in Iraq as «the time I forgot to duck.»

After all, by engaging in these reductions, the kingdom is ceding market share to the likes of Iran, Iraq, and U.S. shale producers, who have recently ramped up exports to record levels of over 2 million barrels per day.

«The degree to which they were able to form their own coalition, both inside of Syria and inside of northwestern Iraq, the military capability they exhibited, the collapse of the Iraqi Security Forces... In those initial days, there were a few surprises.»

Trump got entangled in days of dispute with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in the Iraq war, and sparred with Republican Party leaders.

Only for a day, but it was pretty jarring, and my family had asked me to stop going to Iraq.

According to one account, Edwards was arrested and detained four days, then brought before a judge who told him he would serve a six - year jail sentence if he ever set foot in Iraq again.

Trump has said his directive, issued last month, was necessary to protect the United States from attacks by Islamist militants, barred people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days.

DUBAI Royal Dutch Shell is fully committed to its gas joint venture in Iraq, after the energy major exited its oil assets in the OPEC country, and plans to boost its gas output there to 1.4 billion cubic feet (bcf) a day by 2020, a senior executive said.

Unplanned production outages in Canada, Nigeria, Iraq and elsewhere removed a collective 3.6 million barrels per day off the market in May alone.

However, on March 26, 2003, six days after the U.S. - led coalition began bombing Iraq, Harper told the House of Commons: «We should be there with our allies when it counts against Saddam Hussein.»

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.

Add to that the fact that Iraq is posting significant production gains, adding several hundred thousand barrels per day to global markets this year.

Saudi Arabia production dropped by 58,000 barrels per day to 10.1 million barrels per day by December 2015; Iraq's output was down 31,000 barrels per day to 4.3 million barrels per day; Kuwait's drilling produced 23,000 fewer barrels per day, down to 2.7 million barrels per day; and Nigerian production dropped by 77,000 barrels per day to 1.8 million barrels per day.

According to the IEA, Iraq will increase its output to 5.4 million barrels per day by 2022, which is significantly higher than the earlier estimates of an increase to 4.6 million bpd by 2021.

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.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

On the other hand, oil output from Iraq increased by 30,200 barrels per day, which leaves them and previously exempt Nigeria as the only OPEC members whose production is well in excess what their pact calls for, as can be seen in the table below: