WASHINGTON, United States – The Pentagon announced Sunday it had conducted targeted air strikes against "facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups" on the Iraq-Syria border, initially killing five militia fighters, which it said were authorized by President Joe Biden following ongoing...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In our previous column, we said we experienced up close some of the most devastating wars in the world. The first was the Pacific War and the subsequent invasion of Manila by Japan in 1941 when we were five years old, and then the Vietnam...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – Iraq's president said Sunday $150 billion from oil had been smuggled out of the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, as he introduced a law to fight endemic corruption. President Barham Saleh presented a draft law to parliament to fight corruption, recover stolen...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We join Roman Catholics around the world in praying for the safety of Pope Francis who boarded his plane for Iraq last Friday, indeed a historic but dangerous journey in the midst of the raging global pandemic and the recurrent violence in...
At least 10 rockets slammed into a military base in western Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, security sources said, leaving one civilian contractor dead. There has been a flurry of rocket attacks in the past three weeks on Iraqi bases used by US-led coalition troops, including...
Pope Francis, on a historic trip to Iraq, will on Saturday hold a hugely symbolic meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, seeking to deepen his cautious dialogue with Muslim leaders. The 84-year-old pope will visit the top Shiite cleric at his home in Najaf, the shrine city where Imam Ali, the...
International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)'s subsidiary, Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), last month set a new productivity record of 105 moves per hour – the highest ship-to-shore crane productivity in Iraq. The new record, achieved this January, during the handling of the 5,652-Twenty-foot...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI)'s Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in Um Qasr, Iraq, recently achieved a record berth turnaround with the 6,589-TEU vessel Yang Ming Mutuality. BGT recorded a total of 1,768 moves on the YM Mutuality in 17.5 hours, achieving a record-bteaking...
