Iraq exodus brought boom, but Jordan stems flow
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Abdul-Razzak al-Zobai strolls with his two daughters in Amman's glitzy Mecca Mall, enjoying the normality long absent from his native Baghdad.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, international attention has turned away from Iraq to the other, older, most imperishable of Middle East crises.
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The first batch of Japanese troops began pulling out of Iraq Friday, with about 30 arriving in Kuwait on their way home, news reports said Friday. A C-130 transport aircraft of Japan&#039;s air force carrying about 30 troops arrived at a Kuwaiti airport Friday afternoon, Kyodo News agency reported from Kuwait. Public broadcaster NHK had a similar report.
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DASHT TAKH, Iraq  - Farouq Youhana fled car bombs and snipers in Baghdad to start a new life in a village in northern Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.
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Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of "occupying forces" as the key to national reconciliation, according to focus groups conducted for the U.S. military last month.
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).
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As the U.S. was preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorist activity spread in other regions.
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JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- It was his wife's miscarriage that finally drove Ali Abdulrazak Lafta to flee Iraq's war for the life of a refugee in Lebanon -- another war zone, but one much more manageable for his family.
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Trucks line up every day at this border crossing to carry melons, cookies, soft drinks and appliances into Iraq. For truck driver Ala Saeedi, the booming trade is proof his country is helping its war-torn neighbor.
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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When Army Gen. David H. Petraeus last week proposed withdrawing more than 20,000 U.S. troops from Iraq, some congressional Democrats nodded their heads and saw it as a positive, if insufficient, step forward. Some wanted to take credit. After all, the drawdown, the benchmarks report, even Petraeu...
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Days after fleeing Baghdad, and after his relatives had been gunned down and burned in their cars for collaborating with U.S. forces or their allies, Khalid Abood al-Khafajee reached Amman, Jordan, in December. There the Iraqi translator and his family joined thousands of refugees hoping for passage...
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People fleeing Iraq have swelled the ranks of the world's refugees, reversing a five-year decline, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Iraq has been plagued by electrical shortages since the U.S. invasion, but the blackouts have gotten worse this summer. Besides decaying infrastructure and insurgent attacks, a bumbling bureaucracy and local power rebellions are to blame.
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The U.S. military presence in Iraq will grow to 150,000 troops by next month, the highest level since the invasion last year.