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by Ahmed Janabi US troops detained a senior al-Qaida operative in Iraq on December 9 with the help of local citizens in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, the marines said. Amir Khalaf Fanus, known locally as The...

Nowadays in post-invasion Iraq, everybody is on somebody’s hit-list. Different political groups have emerged with contradictory interests and views, and some are resorting to violence against rivals.

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by Ahmed Janabi The fall of Baghdad to invading US-led forces in April 2003 marked the end of decades of one party rule in Iraq. When the Iraqi Arab Baath Socialist party assumed power in 1968, a national...

by Ahmed Janabi UN Security Council Resolution 1559 set up an inquiry commission to investigate former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri's murder after a UN fact-finding mission found that Lebanon's own investigation was...

by Ahmed Janabi Assassinations continue to be the signposts of Lebanon's political history despite the passage of 15-odd years since the end of the civil war. Between 1989, when the Taif Accords were signed, and...