I’ve no idea what happened that day. I only remember a huge noise, an explosion and I lost consciousness

A THREE-YEAR-OLD Iraqi girl blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.

US President George Bush’s new strategy to send thousands of extra troops to Iraq was met with harsh scepticism across the Middle East today where many predicted that even with more soldiers, America would fail at breaking the cycle of violence.

Facing rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, US President George Bush is pressing European allies for more help in a rush of high-stakes diplomacy amid growing public impatience with the war.

Iraqi doctors are investigating if the deadly bird flu virus was responsible for the death of a 15-year-old girl in Kurdistan near the border with Turkey and Iran, an Iraqi Health Ministry official said today.