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Can Kurdistan follow Israel's lead to become the Middle East's next Start-Up Nation? - analysis
Kurdistan does not need to copy Israel, but it can learn from its journey from a small and politically uncertain environment to a start-up and tech superpower.
Iraqi security forces target political ‘corruption’ in Baghdad Green Zone raids
On This Day: Palestinian terrorists attempt assassinating Israeli ambassador, prompting Lebanon War
Justice in Baghdad: Iraq convicts notorious Saddam Hussein-era torturer
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88
Rumsfeld was in charge when US forces toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but failed to maintain law and order in the aftermath.
40 years since Operation Opera, attack against Iran 'would be different'
Unlike the raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear project, Iran’s nuclear sites are spread across the country, some deep underground or in mountains, surrounded by air defense systems.
Israel’s raid on Osirak, 40 years on
In 1980 the Middle East was dominated by a series of powerful non-democratic regimes. These included Saddam Hussein in Iraq, who had come to power and promised rapid industrialization of the country.
Iraq: A country notorious for its democracy - opinion
Post-Saddam Iraq has suffered from poor governance. The new, democratic Iraq is rife with bribery, kickbacks, and embezzlement, a routine part of its corrupt politics.
Ramsey Clark, lawyer of Gaddafi, Hussein, Milosevic, dies at 93
As attorney-general, he helped shape US civil rights law.
Purim miracles: From Saddam to corona and beyond
If there is a lesson in all this, it is that Purim, its miracles and deliverance are not confined to the distant past.
The day Israel’s wars changed forever
This war was different, because this was not our tanks against theirs on some desert plain; rather, it was their missiles against our population centers, their rockets against our kindergartens.
Saddam-era ‘red devil’ leader Douri reported dead – again
After the US invasion al-Douri vanished and became one of the world's most wanted men. His family was detained but he evaded capture.
The 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Gulf War: A Cuban perspective
At the end of July, we were on a family vacation in Havana. We had flown from Mexico with a boisterous group of young Danish Communists on their way to cut sugar cane in the Marxist paradise.
30 years after Gulf War: 7 reasons it matters so much today
While the US stumbled in confronting the crisis in July 1990, George Bush quickly assembled a massive coalition to destroy Saddam Hussein’s army.
