Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 6/30/1997
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of June 30, 1997
- Syria-Iraq bus link
Iraq will start a bus line to Damascus for travelers next week, following the resumption of overland trade links, the official newspaper Al Thawrah said on July 2. Iraq-Syria, Politics, 7/4/1997 - Iraqi delegation to visit Lebanon
A delegation of Iraqi businessmen will visit Lebanon, which severed diplomatic ties with Iraq in 1994, in August. Iraq-Lebanon, Economics, 7/4/1997 - Iraqi opposition leader rules out a Baghdad-Tehran-Damascus alliance
Iraq's government will never persuade Syria and Iran enter an alliance that could help Baghdad ease its year of international isolation, an Iraqi opposition leader says. Iraq-Syria, Politics, 7/1/1997 - Saddam improving top units
Despite of seven years of United Nations sanctions, six Saddam Hussien's elite Republican Guard divisions are armed and equipped at roughly 80 percent of typical American army divisions, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said. Iraq, Politics, 6/30/1997