Oahu soldier’s death is remembered 20 years later in annual competition
KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Allen Hoe showed soldiers a tattered old flag Wednesday that he and fellow ...
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Guantánamo Convict Sues to Stop U.S. Plan to Send Him to Prison in Iraq
By Carol Rosenberg An Iraqi who pleaded guilty to commanding insurgents who committed war crimes in Afghanistan ... Mr. Hadi was born in Mosul, Iraq, in 1961. He fled Iraq in 1990 to avoid ...
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In conflict zones, priceless artifacts are often destroyed. How can we save them?
When relics and landmarks are damaged in war or natural disasters, they're lost forever. Or are they? Google's Chance ...
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Federal Court Blocks Transfer of Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
The judge issued the order two days before U.S. forces ... Mr. Hadi was born in Mosul, Iraq, in 1961, and served in the Iraqi Army throughout the Gulf War with Iran in the 1980s.
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In Memory of Nawar al-Awlaki, Age 8
Nawar al-Awlaki would have been 16 this year. She was dead long before that. Nawar was just 8 years old when on January 29, ...
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Iraq: Democracy or Civil War
Chairman: Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before this subcommittee ... about whether or not a guerilla war or an insurgency was beginning in Iraq. Today, we argue over whether ...
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PKK leader's nephew recounts first ever meeting with Ocalan
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Kurdish politician and lawmaker Omer Ocalan, 38, was born eight years after his famous uncle, Abdullah ...
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7 Surprising Reasons Iraq Should Be on Your Bucket List
When my friend begged me to with her a few months before, I balked. Why would I want to go to IRAQ ... visit to Mosul was even more important. As the world watches Ukraine move into war, it ...
On the road to Damascus: My trip through a ‘liberated’ Syria
You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...
The Washington Post17d
Loveday Morris
She previously spent three years in Iraq as Baghdad ... to Ramadi and Mosul. She started with The Post as Beirut correspondent in 2013, largely covering Syria's civil war. Before that, she ...
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Five things we learn about Pope Francis from his new memoir
In Hope, Francis reiterates many of the themes of his papacy: a deep-rooted hatred of war and unchecked capitalism ... Would-be assassins targeted the Pope during his visit to Iraq All of his advisers ...
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Why Iran-backed militias in Iraq are Tehran's most resilient proxies
What started as a desperate fight against ISIS after the fall of Mosul ... Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, working with Shi’ite militias. With the Obama US withdrawal in 2011, three years ...