Iraq

Hard-hit Farmers Receive Timely Boost

Efforts are underway to restore what was once the world's leading date industry.

22 Feb 05

Kurds find they are blocked from reclaiming land that was once theirs.

22 Feb 05

Iraq’s new interim president welcomed by many as a potential strong leader, although some see him as no more than an American agent.

22 Feb 05

Iraqi authorities show little enthusiasm for Kurds’ quest to find women believed to have been given away as trophies by the Baath regime.

22 Feb 05

Radical Shia cleric orders his followers to leave holy city after confrontation with Coalition is defused.

22 Feb 05

Community faces persecution for earning a living through prostitution, music and dancing.

22 Feb 05

But Kurdish owners and Arab residents are searching for non-violent ways of resolving the problems.

22 Feb 05

London categorically denies claims that UK soldiers mutilated fighters from southern town.

22 Feb 05

Councillors from west Baghdad assassinated in what appears to be a concerted campaign of intimidation.

22 Feb 05

Most Baghdadis predict more instability, but some confident new Iraqi authorities will cope.

22 Feb 05

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