Posts Tagged ‘Ramadi’

Rouhani optimistic about 5% economic growth

Tehran, Dec 23, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani expressed optimism towards having a five percent growth in Iran’s economy next year (to start March 20, 2016). Talking to the public in city of Rey in the south of capital Tehran on Wednesday, he cited the figures provided by Iran’s statistics organization, saying the point-to-point inflation […]

Stunning ‘designer’ snowflakes grown in a lab

Professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, Ken Libbrecht, is trying to figure out the reason behind the famous fact that no two snowflakes are alike. Libbrecht is pursuing his answer by measuring the development of snowflakes under controlled conditions, producing these “designer” beauties for us to gaze upon. Snowflakes are made when […]

Putin: West Has No right To Force Their Values On Other Nations

 Vladimir Putin has criticized Western powers for trying to impose their values and version of “democracy” on the rest of the world. In a documentary aired on Russian state television on Sunday, the Russian president said that the leaders of certain Western countries had no right to force their ways on African and Middle Eastern nations. […]

Huge California Gas Leak Worst Natural Disaster Since BP Oil Spill

Residents in the California town of Porter Ranch have been exposed to potentially lethal doses of contaminants from a huge natural gas leak since October.  With a population of almost 34,000 people, residents in Porter Ranch have complained of headaches, nausea and congestion, and environmental activist and lawyer Erin Brockovich says it is one of […]

US coalition claims to target ISIS but bombs Syrian infrastructure instead, must pay war reparations – Syrian Foreign Ministry

     Syria affirmed that the US-led coalition’s warplanes have launched tens of raids on the Syrian economic facilities instead of raiding the Islamic State (ISIS) organization and its tanks that transport the stolen Syrian oil into Turkey. “The US-led coalition’s shelling of the economic facilities and infrastructure, and the unilateral coercive measures adopted by some […]

Iran’s coverage: Draft resolution notes end to PMD, UNSC anti-Iran measures: IAEA envoy

Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Najafi: IAEA Board of Governors to close Iran’s previous dossiers Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi said on Tuesday that the IAEA Board of Governors is to close Iran’s previous nuclear dossiers.   Group 5+1 submits draft resolution […]

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Iran in the background as Iraq prepares campaign to retake Ramadi

Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. officials on May 26 downplayed Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) recent gains in Iraq as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to recapture Ramadi in days, perhaps with assistance from Iran. The Iraqi government has called for volunteers and enlisted the aid of Shi’ite militiamen in its counteroffensive in […]

U.S-led coalition conducts air strikes on Ramadi

World Bulletin / News Desk  The U.S.-led coalition carried out air strikes on Wednesday on the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which fell to ISIL members this week, a senior U.S. State Department official said. “We have done air strikes today in Ramadi, I have been told,” the official told reporters. “When we see […]

US Rushing Anti-Tank Missiles to Iraq for Ramadi Fight

Pentagon officials today announced they are providing a rush shipment of 1,000 anti-tank missiles to the Iraqi military to aid in their attempts to retake Ramadi from ISIS. The Anbar capital Ramadi fell to ISIS over the weekend after weeks of fighting, and ISIS looted a number of armored Iraqi vehicles left behind, including tanks […]

U.S. forces seen as only answer after ISIL answers strike in Syria by taking Ramadi

Special to WorldTribune.com The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) responded decisively after losing a key leader in a raid last week by U.S. special forces in eastern Syria. ISIL forces took the key city Ramadi, Iraq during a sandstorm and underscored what some military analysts say is the need for U.S. boots on […]

U.S. concerned Shi’ite militias this time

World Bulletin / News Desk  The use of Shi’ite militias to try to take back the Iraqi city of Ramadi from ISIL risks unleashing more sectarian bloodletting, current and former U.S. officials said, but Washington and Baghdad appear to have few other options. The prospect of Iranian-backed militias leading efforts to retake Ramadi […]

25,000 fled ISIL attack on Ramadi in Iraq

World Bulletin / News Desk  Close to 25,000 people fled the Iraqi city of Ramadi after it was attacked by ISIL members and most of them headed towards Baghdad, the United Nations said on Monday. U.N. and other aid agencies have begun distributing food, water and medical supplies as well as setting up […]

ISIL captures Ramadi in Iraq’s Anbar Province

nsnbc : The office of the governor of Iraq’s Al-Anbar province told the press on Monday, that about 500 civilians and Iraqi soldiers have been killed and that some 8,000 have fled as the city of Ramadi fell into the hands of insurgents of the Islamic State a.k.a ISIS or ISIL. The Al-Anbar province is strategically […]

Bomb attacks kill 15 Iraqi security forces in Ramadi

  According to Iraqi police and army officials, speaking on condition of anonymity on Sunday, four nearly simultaneous bombings took place in the Malaab district in the southern part of Ramadi, killing 10 police officers and wounding 15 others. The Iraqi sources said Colonel Muthana al-Jabri, Malaab police chief, was killed in […]

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