Ankara - Thirteen Kurdish rebels were killed in Turkish air force raids in the last week on Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the Turkish General Staff said on Fr
Baghdad, Feb 13 : A Kurdish archaeological expedition has found a small statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in northern Iraq.
Hassan Ahmed, the director of the local antiquities authority, told the Kurdish news agency Akanews that archaeologists had found a 12-centimeter statue of the ancient Egyptian king in the valley of Dahuk, 470 kilometers north of Baghdad, near a site that locals have long called Pharaoh's Castle.
He said that archaeologists from the Dahuk Antiquities Authority believe the statue dates from the mid-14th Century BC.
Washington, Feb. 13 : Three weeks into her new role as US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton seems to be enjoying her new status at the Foggy Bottom headquarters.
According to CBS, there are reports of her cruising the hallways and dropping in on people to talk about what they're doing, but it has been mostly a mix of briefings, meetings and policy reviews taking place out of the public eye.
Cairo - Although the announced intention behind the visit of Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to Iraq was strengthening economic ties, the timing of the visit this week can also reveal unannounced reasons.
"Now, Iran is trying to open a new dialogue with the US, and the situation in Iraq is one of the related topics to be discussed," said Gamal Abdul-Gawad, a researcher at Al-Ahram Strategic Centre for Political Studies.
Baghdad - Two blasts in Baghdad killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 43 more, in the most deadly of a series of attacks that rocked Iraq on Wednesday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite network reported.
The twin Baghdad blasts followed an attack in the northern city of Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.
In that attack, a suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into a joint Iraqi-US military patrol, killing at least one Iraqi soldier, a police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Baghdad- Two blasts in Baghdad killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 43 more, in the most deadly of a series of attacks that rocked Iraq on Wednesday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite network reported.
The twin Baghdad blasts followed an attack in the northern city of Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Baghdad, Feb 13 : A Kurdish archaeological expedition has found a small statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen in northern Iraq.
Washington, Feb. 13 : Three weeks into her new role as US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton seems to be enjoying her new status at the Foggy Bottom headquarters.
Cairo - Although the announced intention behind the visit of Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to Iraq was strengthening economic ties, the timing of the visit this week can also reveal unannounced reasons.
Baghdad - Two blasts in Baghdad killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 43 more, in the most deadly of a series of attacks that rocked Iraq on Wednesday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite network reported.
