Australia has offered to help the United States provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in Iraq, the Prime Minister says. Tony Abbott says he spoke with US officials overnight to discuss what has...
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Australia has offered to help the United States provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in Iraq, the Prime Minister says. Tony Abbott says he spoke with US officials overnight to discuss what has...
By Europe correspondent Emma Alberici The official inquiry into the Iraq war being held in London has been accused of ignoring the deaths of the estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed...
The latest report by Iraq's Red Crescent Society says almost 370,000 Iraqis fled their homes in September to escape sectarian violence. The report says almost 2.3 million Iraqis have been internally...
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By Europe correspondent Philip Williams A British parliamentary committee has warned the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq is getting worse. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee says...
South Korea has donated $US3 million worth of supplies to the northern Iraqi province of Tamim. Provincial authorities say the aid includes heavy equipment, 500 computers, spare parts and medical...
The Ministry of Health in Baghdad is preparing to receive more than 10,000 medical textbooks collected from people across Australia. Doctor Aniello Iannuzzi from the New South Wales country town of...
Washington has proposed expanding an oil-for-food scheme with Iraq, to enable more food and medicine to reach the Iraqi people. The proposal -- to remove the cap on Iraqi oil sales -- comes one day...
American officials say four U-S fighter aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone in southern Iraq have clashed with intruding Iraq warplanes. The American side is said to have fired several air-to-air...
The 'Washington Post' newspaper says there's evidence to back claims that UN weapons inspectors helped the US collect intelligence to undermine Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The paper reports UN...
The Iraqi government has formally requested the replacement of US and British humanitarian workers in Iraq following last month's air strikes. In a message to the UN Security Council, the authorities...
Meanwhile, the head of the U-N weapons inspection program in Iraq, Richard Butler, has rejected Iraq's view that the work of UNSCOM is over following the British and American air strikes. Iraqi...
There's been a resumption of food and other basic supplies to Iraq, ahead of the imminent return of United Nations humanitarian workers. A spokesman for the UN aid programme says about 100 trucks...
Seven B-52 bombers have been ordered to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, amid US warnings that American forces in the Gulf are still poised to strike Iraq. The deployment of the heavy bombers...
Iraq says United Nations weapons experts have carried out several surprise inspections, including a site not placed under permanent monitoring. The Iraqi liason to the United Nations Special...
Iraq's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, says United Nations weapons inspectors are asking the impossible of Iraq in demanding more documents on its arms programs. Mr Sahhaf says Baghdad has...
Friday 13 November, 1998 (1:07pm AEDT) The United States claims near unamimous support for its tough stand against Iraq. The US is continuing a massive military build-up in the Persian Gulf in...
Iraq's deputy prime minister has accused Washington of preventing an agreement between the United Nations and Iraq that could lead to the lifting of the eight-year oil embargo. The Deputy Prime...
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz says Iraq is prepared to give a "positive response" to U-N demands that Baghdad resume cooperation with United Nations arms inspectors. Bahrain's Permanent...
United Nations special envoy, Prakash Shah, is continuing talks with Iraqi authorities over weapons inspections there. Mr Shah last week delivered a message from UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to...
The United States has dismissed Iraq's decision to again suspend co-operation with United Nations weapons inspectors, as political rhetoric. Agnes Cusack reports,the decision was announced after a...