Iraq's demand for Hello Kitty keeps one Aleppo factory open as others close doors Christian Science Monitor In opposition-controlled Aleppo, once the economic heart of Syria, few businesses have survived the war, which has reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble amid fighting, scud missile attacks, airstrikes, and artillery bombardment. Skip to next paragraph ...
A Syrian awakening? The Economist (blog) SINCE the start of Syria's uprising, many people, not least in America's war-weary administration, have eyed the crisis through the prism of Iraq-despite the two conflicts' marked differences. In Iraq, a foreign invasion to unseat Saddam Hussein ...
MIKE O'ROURKE: We're Now Seeing The 'Iraq' Of Monetary Policy Business Insider Mike O'Rourke of JonesTrading says that we're now seeing the "Iraq" of monetary policy, meaning the Fed has entered into an extraordinary situation, from which it has no good plan to self-extricate. The Iraq of Monetary Policy. Is there a plausible ...
Wave of Car Bombings Targets Shiites in Iraq Wall Street Journal ... in a Shiite-majority neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. BAGHDAD-A barrage of car bombings in mostly Shiite areas across Iraq killed scores of people on Monday, in one of the country's deadliest weeks since a sectarian civil war raged in 2006 and 2007.
Iraq Bombings: Wave Of Explosions Kills At Least 12, Police Say Huffington Post KIRKUK, Iraq, May 21 (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. More than 200 ...
Attacks in Iraqi Cities Raise Fears of Renewed Sectarian Conflict New York Times BAGHDAD - A wave of car bombings and shootings hit cities in Iraq late Sunday and on Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding more than 250, medical and security officials said. Some news agency reports put the overall toll even higher, at 86 ...
