Tough living conditions at Arbat refugee camp, Iraq
Syrian Kurd refugees, fled from the clashes between Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and armed groups in Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), have hard living conditions with heavy rain at Arbat refugee...
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Iraq said a collapse in oil prices and the cost of fighting Islamic State militants may force the country to review its plans to boost crude production this decade.
It may be necessary to revisit our ambitious plans for the next five years, Iraqs Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways said at a conference in London today, without specifying what measures the country might take. But we are committed to progress in this vital economic field with regard to production and export capacities.
Iraq is supposed to add more new oil production by the end of this decade than any other member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The 12-nation group decided on Nov. 27 to maintain output amid a global surplus. Brent, the global benchmark, slumped 24 percent since then and is down by almost half since the end of 2013.
The Kurdistan Regional Government will increase pipeline exports to 500,000 barrels a day by the end of March from 400,000 now, Ashti Hawrami, the KRGs minister of natural resources, said at the same event. The Kurd areas oil output will expand to 1 million barrels a day by the end of next year, he said.
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He went to war with a Marine regiment known as the Cannon Cockers, an artillery unit that rained explosive shells on the enemy in Iraq.
He did not stay long - less than three months in 2008. But Bradley Stone claimed he had been fully disabled by post-traumatic stress disorder and was taking medication as part of his mental-health treatment.
It is clear that he struggled with alcohol. And on the license for his second marriage, he listed his occupation as "disabled veteran."
In a patch of woods not far from his Pennsburg home Tuesday afternoon, police found Stone dead of self-inflicted cutting wounds - a gruesome end to a manhunt that began after he killed his ex-wife and five of her relatives in Montgomery County on Monday.
On Tuesday, service veteran friends of Stone's struggled to make sense of the killings. None condoned them. At the same time, they said, Stone had suffered.
"He saw war," said Seth Howard, 27, a Marine veteran of Iraq. "How are you supposed to be healthy after that?"
Howard was at Vets for Vets, a nonprofit center close to Stone's house in Pennsburg. He said the two often talked about their combat experiences.
Stone, friends said, was a Marine through and through, a family man who happily lent a hand to shovel snow, and a former sergeant who struggled with stress disorder and physical injuries from carrying heavy backpacks in Iraq.
Vietnam veteran Clyde Hoch, 68, said that he and Stone were not close, but that he considered the younger man "a pretty decent guy."
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Chapter 1: In Iraq, soldiers fight for their brothers
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