Ankara - Iran has asked Turkey to play a role in bringing Tehran and Washington together to discuss mutual concerns, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday night.
"We have said this before: we are ready. Iran wants us to play a role," Erdogan said in a panel interview including Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa during a flight to Ankara, after local election campaigning in the south-eastern city of Mardin.
Baghdad - Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday, six years after it was looted and vandalised in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
It is estimated that about 15,000 artefacts and antiquities were stolen in the chaos that accompanied Saddam Hussein's ousting. Some 6,000 items have been retrieved.
"It was a dark age that Iraq passed through," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during the reopening ceremony Monday. A "wave of ignorance" had swept the country following the invasion.
Baghdad, Feb. 22 : The infamous Abu Ghraib prison, which is largely known for the horrible and inhuman methods of torture for its inmates, has been transformed into Iraq''s version of Club Fed.
The prison reopened on Saturday after getting a new name and a million dollar makeover that included a gym, barbershop, greenhouses, computer chat-room, a playground, and a sewing room, the Daily News reports.
In 2004, Abu Gharib, which is now called Baghdad Central Prison, attracted global outrage when pictures of US soldiers torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners surfaced. Saddam Hussein also used it is as a torture den.
Baghdad - Mostafa Hussein, a young man from Baghdad, once dreamed of joining Iraq's security forces to help end the fighting that has torn his country apart in recent years.
And so Hussein joined the Sunni tribal police as a first step. He tried not to let the death threats he received as a result bother him. Undeterred, he applied for a job with the Iraqi police.
When the police turned him down, Hussein did not give up. He tried bribing his way into a job, also without success. All the government jobs, he said, are reserved for friends and relatives of government officials.
Amman - The Jordanian Interior Ministry on Thursday announced new facilities for Iraqis, particularly businessmen, wishing to visit or stay in Jordan.
The rules, which go into effect as of Sunday, provides for the establishment of a "special counter" on the border post for granting Iraqi businessmen, investors and officials entry visas without prior agreement from the interior minister as it was the case before, according to a ministry statement.
Ankara - Iran has asked Turkey to play a role in bringing Tehran and Washington together to discuss mutual concerns, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday night.
Baghdad - Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday, six years after it was looted and vandalised in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
Baghdad - Unknown gunmen assassinated a senior member of Iraq's Umma 
Baghdad - Mostafa Hussein, a young man from Baghdad, once dreamed of joining Iraq's security forces to help end the fighting that has torn his country apart in recent years.
Amman - The Jordanian Interior Ministry on Thursday announced new facilities for Iraqis, particularly businessmen, wishing to visit or stay in Jordan.
