IN THE NEWS - New Government in Iraq

IN THE NEWS - New Government in Iraq By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, June 05, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Iraq now has leaders in place to take power tempora

Kerry： Bush Made Wrong Choices on Iraq

By Jim Malone Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says President Bush has made a series of wrong choices on Iraq and he vowed to take a new direction if elected in November. Senator Kerry sai

Iraq Museum Antiquities1

Broadcast: May 14, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about efforts to re

IN THE NEWS - Missing Explosives in Iraq

IN THE NEWS - Missing Explosives in Iraq By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, October 30, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. On Monday, the United Nations nuclear agency

Bush Poll Ratings Go Up Despite Iraq Troubles

Jim Malone Despite a difficult last few weeks in Iraq and continuing questions about how and why the Bush administration took the country to war there, the president's public approval ratings have gon

No Preference for American Companies in Iraq Reconstruction,

Broadcast: Mar 28, 2003 A senior U.S. official has called on European countries to put aside their disagreements over war in Iraq and cooperate with the United States in the post-war reconstruction of

WFP Prepares for Possible War in Iraq

Broadcast: Jan 30 2003 United Nations relief agencies (like the World Food Program) say they are positioning supplies in countries neighboring Iraq，to be ready in case of a war. The World Food Progr

UN Concerned About Outbreak of Disease in Iraq

Broadcast: Mar 28 2003 United Nations health officials are concerned about the outbreak of disease from poor water and 1) sanitation conditions in Iraq if the war 2) drags on. But so far, they say, co

Schroeder: Germany Ready to Contribute to Iraq's Reconstruct

Schroeder: Germany Ready to Contribute to Iraq's Reconstruction Ruth Elkins In a short news conference after a working dinner in Berlin Thursday evening, Mr. Schroeder said Germany is ready to contrib

Japan Will Not Withdraw Troops from Iraq, Despite Kidnapping

Japan Will Not Withdraw Troops from Iraq, Despite Kidnapping of 3 Civilians Steve Herman Task forces have been set up in Tokyo at the prime minister's office and the Foreign Ministry to deal with what

Rumsfeld Defends Intelligence, War in Iraq

Rumsfeld Defends Intelligence, War in Iraq Alex Belida Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has strongly denied the Bush Administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction prog

Reporting from Iraq is a Deadly Job

By Zlatica Hoke Reporting from Iraq has proven to be a deadly job: more than 40 reporters have been killed in the 19 months since the start of the war. The security situation has grown so perilous in

Annan Unclear About US Participation in UN Meeting on Iraq

Annan Unclear About US Participation in UN Meeting on Iraq Peter Heinlein U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he expects senior U.S. officials to come to New York this month for talks on Iraq. Lead

AS IT IS 2016-05-18 IS Delivers More Deadly Bombings in Iraq

AS IT IS 2016-05-18 IS Delivers More Deadly Bombings in Iraq Islamic State militants are again using bombs to attack Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. A number of bombings struck markets across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday. At least 68 people were kil

US Welcomes Prospect of Arab Peacekeepers in Iraq

By David Gollust The Bush administration has been working hard to try to enlist Muslim, and especially Arab, countries to join in Iraq peacekeeping operations. Although neither Jordan nor Yemen has ma

CIA Chief Denies Bush Administration Manipulated Iraq Intell

CIA Chief Denies Bush Administration Manipulated Iraq Intelligence Deborah Tate The head of the Central Intelligence Agency says he does not believe the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to

Powell Defends US Stance on Iraq's WMD

Powell Defends US Stance on Iraq's WMD Nick Simeone The Bush administration is coming under renewed attack over whether its claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was backed up by solid

Turkey Steps Up Campaign Against PKK on Iraq Border

The conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebel group the PKK continues to escalate as the Turkish armed forces in last few days have being bombarding PKK bases in neighboring northern Iraq. The conflict is set to further escalate with growi

Iraq Taps Its Oil Riches, But Risks Deter Big Investment

LONDON - Nine years after the U.S.-led invasion, the Iraqi government says the country is emerging as a global energy giant. A conference in London has brought together leading figures from the government and the oil industry to try to boost investme

VOA双语新闻 --- Iraq War Enters Sixth Year

Five years ago, on March 20, 2003, U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow a dictatorship that President Bush accused of developing weapons of mass destruction. No WMD were ever found. In this first in a series of reports on the Iraq war, the fight