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Iraq will next week provide foreign oil and gas companies with details of the contracts under which it hopes the companies will help boost the country's oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day.
Click and drag the marker to where you think Iraq is on this map of the Middle East. When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has ...
President George Bush seeks to ease concerns over his strategy for rebuilding Iraq in a prime-time national address. He emphasized major events in the planned reconstruction of Iraq, beginning ...
Peters drew onto his map an independent Kurdistan and an abridged Turkey; he shrank Iran (handing over Khuzestan to an as-yet-imaginary Arab-Shiite state he carved out of what is now southern Iraq ...
As the following map shows, Iraqi territory can be thought of as belonging to one of three factions: ISIS, the Kurds, or the Iraqi government. But in actuality, the factionalism of Iraq runs much ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2007 — -- The president is expected to announce that the U.S. force in Iraq will be increased by 22,000 troops, and he will explain the clear expectations for victory ...
Mesopotamian Marshland Map: Near the end of their 1,900- and 2,800-kilometer journey, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, respectfully, feed into the Mesopotamian Marshlands of modern-day Iraq before ...
UNITED NATIONS, April 13 -- U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to wrap up his mission to salvage Iraq's political transition on Wednesday and to publicly outline elements of a new ...
Two-thirds didn't know that the earthquake that killed 70,000 people in October 2005 occurred in Pakistan. Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.