Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state and national security adviser, Mr. Powell died on Monday, his family said.

The United Nations Security Council will vote at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT) on Friday on a draft resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations, said Kuwait's U.N. mission, the council president for February, Reuters reported.

Sweden and Kuwait have presented a revised draft U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria that diplomats said could win backing from Russia.

A secret study commissioned by the CIA in December 1975 concluded that Yugoslavia had the technical capabilities and the necessary uranium supply to build its own nuclear weapon, and that it could have attained such a weapon by 1980.

Professor Filip Kovacevic, who acquainted himself with the documents, shared his findings with Sputnik.

 North Korea on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing tougher sanctions and said the United States would soon face the "greatest pain" it had ever experienced, Reuters reported.

The CIA declassified a letter Dec. 11 that suggests US intelligence had grave doubts about part of the case made by former president George W. Bush's White House to justify the war in Iraq.
      

The Iraqi army has retaken from Islamist insurgents a sprawling complex where aging remnants of late President Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons programme are stored in bunkers, the country's deputy foreign minister said on Dec. 1.

After exactly 22 years, we have arrived at the same place… Let us remember in order: Before the Gulf War, the U.S. asked for permission from us for its ground operation from the North to Iraq.

After exactly 22 years, we have arrived at the same place… Let us remember in order: Before the Gulf War, the U.S. asked for permission from us for its ground operation from the North to Iraq.

The U.N. Security Council plans to demand countries "prevent and suppress" the recruitment and travel of foreign fighters to join extremist militant groups like Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by ensuring it is considered a serious criminal offence under domestic laws.