Topic: United Nations
Four Iranian exiles have filed a complaint in US court against senior Iranian and Iraqi officials for their alleged role in an April attack on Camp Ashraf, a site for Iranian dissidents in Iraq.The Iranians, three of whom received political asylum in ...
Some 200 people demonstrated at the European headquarters of the United Nations Monday, demanding US and UN protection for Iranian exiles at the Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq."If something happens in Ashraf, the (United Nations) will be held responsible," Maryam Rajavi, head ...
Last week's deadly Iraqi raid on an Iranian opposition base inside its territory signals the growing influence of neighbouring Iran, as US forces prepare to withdraw at the end of this year."Baghdad has no interest in taking a hostile attitude toward Iran, ...
A little known fact in American history is the history of the USS Tawara, which is an amphibious assault ship used by the US Navy . Built in 1972 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Company and launched on December 1, 1973, Tawara was one ...
History will not be kind to Secretary of State Rice. In her early days, Secretary Rice preached isolationism as a government policy and was indeed very adamant about this in the pre-election days. On the other hand, she never changed her position ...
U.N. records showed that millions of Darfurians have now fled but their homes and remained stuck at the borders, awaiting relocation to a better place that could offer them safety and a new beginning. But even the intervention of the United Nations ...
I have heard and read a lot of opinions lately with regard to The U.S. Military and I am ashamed to say that most of what is being said is not very complimentary. I understand that the most basic thing these men ...
Forthe longest time, nations have gone to war for a single reason, land. It?s safe to say that our government wassomewhat confident in Iraq not having those weapons. Defense and Trade Division says that, ?The Administration and itssupporters assert that Iraq was ...
According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, 80 percent of all deaths after the ceasefire were youngsters (Time magazine, June 10, 1991). "It's not war," Raphael Bidawid (Roman Catholic Patriarch of Iraq) stated at that time, "it's genocide. During the 1991 attack of ...
Former prime minister Tony Blair will give testimony to Britain's Iraq war inquiry next week, officials said Monday, as one of his former aides robustly defended his conduct.Blair, who backed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite strong opposition at home ...