SAMARRA: Five years ago, a blast tore through Iraq's golden-domed Shia Askari shrine in the mainly Sunni city of Samarra, helping ignite two years of sectarian strife that drove Iraq to the brink of civil war.
Now the shrine is being rebuilt and (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq has agreed to pay Egypt $408 million in cash to settle old debts owed by Baghdad from more than two decades ago, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
The debts date back to a period when United Nations sanctions following the (...)
