Sentences with phrase «saying iraq»

What was the legal basis for saying Iraq had failed to take the «final opportunity» to disarm?

Iraq, which produced 4.47 million bpd in January, well above its quota of 4.35 million bpd, is capable of raising its output to 5 million bpd in the second half of this year, said Iraq's Minister of Oil, Jabbar Ali Al - Luiebi.

State Department officials said the Iraq and Pakistan have taken significant measures to protect religious freedom over last year.

Citing Iraq's cooperation with the US, the White House said Iraq will no longer be singled out with other Muslim - majority nations as a country of concern.

In March 2015, just 3 percent of Democrats said the Iraq War was the most important problem in Gallup's poll.

Out of left wing, a Plaid Cymru MP says Harman was brave to say the Iraq war was a mistake, and tries to use it as a metaphor for government failure to not impose more market regulation before the current crisis hit.

David Miliband says Iraq war is no longer «divisive» as Labour rivals Ed Balls and Ed Miliband distance themselves from war

Alastair Campbell says the Iraq inquiry should be held in private, but it looks as though he's losing the argument.

Humanitarian agencies say Iraq's hospitals are reaching breaking point, as the battle for Baghdad causes the number of civilian casualties to rise rapidly.

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Furat al Jamil, a filmmaker and sculptor, whose assemblage of beehive panels and a broken ceramic pot appeared in both Venice and London, says Iraq is experiencing a «cultural genocide» provoked by the influence of fundamentalist religion.

When Bush said the Iraq War was not about the oil, Ted Koppel countered with an Op Ed in the NYT succinctly summing up the US geopolitical and military posture for much of the 20th century in an article headlined «Will Fight for Oil.»

The «smartest people in the world» also said Iraq had WMDs, never trust the smartest people when billions of dollars is at stake, and all that money is flowing to these people in the form of grant money, research grants, carbon credits, etc. and you said A. Climate Change, not A.GWwarming so I guess global cooling will soon be blamed on A. activity along with hurricanes and droughts.

Not exact matches

Petraeus continued by saying that» [ISIS] is clearly a threat to the United States, to our allies and partners around the world, and of course, very much in the region, where it's fomenting instability, violence and indeed, far beyond Iraq and Syria.

Hecker said the success of the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria meant the A-10s could be deployed to Afghanistan instead of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where they would otherwise have been based.

According to the report, of the 23 countries surveyed, Iraq and Afghanistan are the only two countries where majorities of Muslims surveyed said that honor killings of women are justified as punishment for alleged pre - or extra-marital sex.

Baquet even refers to this in his interview, saying part of the problem with the Times «Iraq coverage was that the paper and its reporters «tend to believe what politicians tell us.»

North Korea has repeatedly said it needs nuclear weapons to prevent an American invasion, citing the fate of regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

The U.K. government said that the meeting «will help to enhance our co-operation in tackling international challenges such as terrorism, extremism, the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Yemen and other regional issues such as Iraq and Syria.»

The paper also got a very painful reminder of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face value, when its reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned out to be a tissue of lies fed to one of its reporters.

In a separate statement to reporters in Manila, North Korea called President Donald Trump's «America First» policy dangerous and said its nuclear program was necessary to avoid a U.S. invasion similar to those in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

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.

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

«We finished one battle but we are engaged now with a war for reconstruction,» said Mustafa al - Hiti, the head of Iraq's reconstruction fund.

Iranian state television on Saturday quoted a military spokesman as saying Iran and Iraq «agreed on measures to establish border security and receive Iraqi forces that are to be stationed at border posts.»

He said he was «driving around with a big «Stop the Iraq War» sign on my car window» in the months before basic training began in 2003.

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.

I had one with Saddam Hussein looking just like Ron Burgundy in Anchorman, and it said, «You stay classy Iraq.»

Hollande added that France would «reinforce» its actions in Iraq and Syria in response to the violence, saying, «We will continue striking those who attack us on our own soil.»

Though he called for sending «an additional 475 service members to Iraq,» Obama said they would have the same mission as the «several hundred American service members» he sent to Iraq in June.

Routh's mother had asked Kyle if he could help her son, who she said had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and Haiti.

«I would submit to the Democrats across the country we are going to be compromised in trying to win the election in 2016 if our nominee supported the war in Iraq,» Chafee said, as reported by CNN on Thursday.

In a letter to Obama at the time, Brennan said he was «a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include water boarding.»

The Deir al - Zor region had been «used by ISIS as a route for logistics support between ISIS in Iraq and ISIS in Syria, so whether you attack the stronghold or you attack the route that ISIS uses, it (has) the same result», Assad said.

«The president has also said that he was against President Bush's war in Iraq, saying it was a disaster.

Trump said the travel restrictions were similar to a six - month ban by the Obama administration on visas from Iraq in 2011.

What critics said: «Kate Mara is raw and riveting in the title role, a marine who ends up in combat in Iraq with a bomb - sniffing German shepherd.»

In college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topic.

Iraq will be put back together again by spending on reconstruction, not arms, says Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi.

«It's countries you'd expect — you know it's China, Russia, Iran, and Iraq — and they're being very aggressive trying to get access to the know - how about how companies have built their capabilities, and transport that know - how back to their countries,» said Smith.

Building a water - treatment plant in Iraq is a tricky business, requiring patience and sensitivity to the local culture, Sukovieff says.

Iraq's Defense and Interior Ministries issued statements saying al - Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

OPEC is working on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its alliance with other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.

Trump is likely to continue to push back against Iran's influence, particularly in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, Eurasia Group says.

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.

In a statement, Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said, «My condolences to the people of Iran and Iraq over the loss of human life caused by the earthquake.»

«In Iraq, they run through batteries like crazy,» she says.

Twitter promptly seized on the statement, drawing comparisons to an infamous May 2003 speech in which President George W. Bush proudly declared the end of a major US presence in Iraq while standing on an aircraft carrier in front of a banner that said, «Mission Accomplished.»