BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kuwait has given initial approval to open a special border crossing with neighbouring Iraq for international oil firms working there, an Iraqi oil official said on Monday. "There is kind of initial approval from Kuwait's side," Abdul-Mahdy al-Ameedi,...
On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded the emirate of Kuwait, which Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, had declared Iraq's 19th province. The occupation of Kuwait may have only lasted seven months, yet the memory of it remains strong, not least in the minds of...
A destroyed Iraqi battle tank amidst other vehicles on the highway between Kuwait City and Basra, Iraq in April 199129 July 2010 The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims...
GENEVA (AFP) – The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in...
Comments NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Map, News) - The Justice Department says a 25-year-old Newport News man has been indicted on charges related to a deadly vehicle collision in Kuwait. The government says Morgan Hanks was arrested Tuesday on charges related to the death of one...
* Attorney's Office moves to dismiss indictment against unit * Dismissal comes after Agility unit asks for gov't evidence * Stocks resumes trade after brief suspension, up 4.8 percent (Adds analyst comments, stock price, background) By Eman Goma KUWAIT, July 28...
, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former U.S. Army contractor was arrested today in , for allegedly killing one sailor and seriously injuring another in a vehicular collision in , announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division,...
