Veterans who suffered physical injuries or developed post-traumatic stress disorder after combat in Iraq or Afghanistan may suffer recurrent headaches, a new study suggests.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 23, 2009
Australian-listed oil and gas producer Oil Search Ltd has found oil in an exploration well in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, it said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 22, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the relations between U.S. and Iraq were evolving into economy, trade and commerce and no longer exclusively security-related.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 20, 2009
Iran's military accused the United States and Israel of terrorism as it held a funeral on Tuesday for high-ranking commanders killed in the deadliest attack in the Islamic Republic since the 1980s.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 20, 2009
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday vowed to retaliate against the United States and Britain after accusing them of backing the perpetrators of a suicide bombing that killed six Guards commanders.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 19, 2009
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe became the most-watched lawmaker in the U.S. healthcare debate by following one of the oldest and most pragmatic of maxims -- that all politics is local.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 15, 2009
A key U.S. Senate committee endorsed a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Tuesday, gaining the support of an influential Republican and delivering President Barack Obama a victory on his top domestic priority.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 14, 2009
TNK-BP, Russia's third-biggest oil producer, said on Monday it was considering developing hydrocarbon resources in Iraq as it seeks to make its first foray into the oil-rich country.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 12, 2009
The GOP poked fun at President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize in a fundraising letter sent out to supporters on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 10, 2009
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 09, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world hope for a better future and striving for nuclear disarmament.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 09, 2009
If George W. Bush was the Decider who relied mostly on gut instinct as U.S. president, Barack Obama has shown himself to be the Deliberator.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 08, 2009
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah flew to Syria on Wednesday for talks with President Bashar al-Assad aimed at healing a rift that has aggravated Arab discord over Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Lebanon.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
Saturday Night Live Obama accomplishment skit featured Fred Armisen in his popular role of President Barack Obama evaluating his achievements as president
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
Iraq's Sunni Arab parliament speaker called on Tuesday for members of the Iraqi military under former leader Saddam Hussein to be respected for their sacrifices and have their pensions increased.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
A minibus bomb exploded at a market in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 31, a local official said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
American Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) visited Iraqi refugees in Syria, in a suburb in southern Damascus on October 2, 2009.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
A suicide bomber walked into an Iraqi funeral tent and blew himself up Monday, killing at least six mourners and wounding 15, Iraqi police said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
U.S. officials are hoping joint patrols between Iraq's largely Arab army and Kurdish troops will build trust in tense disputed northern areas, dampening the tinder that many fear could ignite Iraq's next wa
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
Gun shots ring sharply across a valley littered with rusting hulks of Soviet tanks as Afghan soldiers crouch down and open fire into the dusty haze.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
Suddenly, the Iranian existential threat seems to have receded from Israel's horizon.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 30, 2009