Iraq is reeling from effects of coronavirus crisis & political paralysis & can’t bear the huge economic burden imposed by Saudi prince’s impetuousness.
Pompeo said he’s had some 50 phone calls with Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders in Iraq since Soleimani's killing and suggested the public outcry from the country’s senior leadership wasn’t genuine.
The fact that no Americans were killed in the missile attacks will do little to quench the bloodlust of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei over Gen Soleimani's assassination.
Iran fired at the al-Asad and Erbil US air bases in Iraq, escalating an already tense situation that began last week after Iranian Gen Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility. Pentagon says attack launched from Iran & targeted a base in western Iraq & another facility in Erbil.
Iraq's move comes in response to the killing of Maj Gen Soleimani, the head of its elite al Quds force and architect of the region's security apparatus, in a US drone attack last week.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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