Manama, Sept 21 : Qatar-based pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera Network has reportedly replaced its top news director in the wake of WikiLeaks revelations that he modified the network’s Iraq war coverage in response to pressure from the US.

According to the New York Times, the network has named a member of the Qatari royal family and a businessman, Sheik Ahmad bin Jasem bin Muhammad Al-Thani, to replace Wadah Khanfar.

President Obama says he is on track to carry out his promise of ending the Iraq war.

Despite a stalemate situation in Baghdad on efforts to form a new government, Obama is happy with his achievements in Iraq. He is convinced that he will carry out his promise, which he did while campaigning for the post of the president.

Obama's message of opposition to the Iraq war helped him to gain support among Democrats in his presidential election campaign.

The former head of British intelligence said on Tuesday that the decision to use military force in Iraq in 2003 gave Osama bin Laden the jihad he looking for.

London is examining its role in the Iraq war from the planning stages in 2001 to the end of British combat operations in 2009.

London's Guardian newspaper has reported that Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led British intelligence agency MI5 from 2002-07, told the London inquiry into the Iraq war Tuesday that the Iraqi invasion was a propaganda victory for al-Qaida.

Flydubai has commenced its initial flight to Iraq by flying to the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region.

The low cost airline made this declaration on Saturday.

The FZ201 aircraft finished a three-hour trip to Erbil on Friday after it lifted off from the Dubai International Airport.

Flydubai's chief commercial officer Hamad Obaidalla stated that stability is coming back to Iraq and mainly to the Kurdistan area, and this makes Erbil an important gateway into the country.

Authorities have said that insurgents detonated a string of bombs in Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 41 people and injuring 181 others, most of them religious pilgrims.

The deadliest attack was carried out by a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives that targeted pilgrims near Abu Haneefa al Numan Mosque in Adhamiyah, north of Baghdad, about 8 p. m., McClatchy Newspapers have reported. McClatchy also said that blast killed at least 28 people and wounded 81.

Officials have confirmed that multiple attacks in Iraq Tuesday killed eight people and wounded 15 others.

CNN has reported that Interior Ministry officials said an Iraqi army brigadier general in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Kadhumiya was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded.

The official further said that another car bomb exploded in northwestern Baghdad in Hurriya killing one civilian and wounding two others.

CNN further said that a car explosion in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora killed one civilian and wounded four others.

It has been reported that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is calling for an end to both offshore drilling and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to health officials, the need for treatment of rampant mental illness in Iraq far outstrips resources in the war-ravaged country.

The Washington Post has reported that though the war has subsided and many American troops have pulled out, medical specialists say they're overwhelmed with mental health cases induced by war-related trauma.

According to the reports, Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi Kurdistan and built a fortified base, one of several recent military incursions as Iraq struggles to form a government amid efforts by Tehran to ensure that a pro-Iranian Shiite alliance takes power.

Another area of contention is the disputed oil-rich Maysan border region in southeastern Iraq.

Interior officials have said that five police officers were killed and 30 other people were injured in the Baghdad area Sunday in four separate attacks.

China's state-run news agency Xinhua has reported that a suicide car bomber attacked a group of policemen early Sunday near a checkpoint in southwestern Baghdad's al-Amil district, killing four officers and wounding a dozen more.

A source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed one police officer and injured six others.

In Iraq's northern Diyala province, a car bomb blast has killed at least 23 people and injured another 53 people. The bomb blasted at Shia town of Khalis about 80 kilometers north to the capital Baghdad at 1630 GMT. However, a spate of attacks has killed more than 100 people earlier this month.

The situation in Iraq is getting worse after the elections in March. In the general election no single party had claimed the majority to form government.

An Al-Qaeda suspect was detained in Iraq. He has given detailed information about the attack he was plotting to finalize in the next FIFA world cup in South Africa.

The name of the person is Saleh al-Qahtani. He was arrested and now interrogation is on. He had admitted that he had made a plan to attack the Dutch and Danish players to take revenge for the prophet. He has also added that the senior Al-Qaeda leaders did not approved the plan, but he was keen for a blast at the grand event.

Officials have said that investigators are examining the U. S. Army's use of a controversial and possibly dangerous drug to treat wounded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Baltimore Sun reported on Sunday that the blood-clotting drug, called Factor VII, has been shown to be ineffective in clinical trials and been the focus of safety warnings by U. S. and European regulators.

Authorities have said that Iraq's election results in Baghdad and the surrounding area have been upheld by the country's electoral commission after a partial recount.

The BBC reported on Sunday that the hand recount of 2.5 million ballots, requested by incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, took two weeks.

The BBC also said that Maliki's coalition party had come in second in the voting.

The recount confirms the two-seat parliamentary lead of Maliki's challenger Iyad Allawi and is compatible with the original results announced in March.

10 people were killed and 120 people got injured at a football stadium in Iraq by a suicide bomb. The explosives were detonated hidden inside a car. The car was parked at the entrance to the stadium at Tal Afar, situated at the west of Mosul.

The people present at the time of the mishap have said that there was not only one suicide bomber rather some said there were up to three suicide bombers at the spot.

The blast was followed one after another. Before this blast the Islamic State of Iraq the militant umbrella group warned the city of ‘dark days of bloods’.

A spokesman for the secular Iraqiya slate has said that the Iraqi political alliance by two leading Shiite coalitions was orchestrated by Iran.

It was reported that the Iraqiya slate of former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi won a narrow victory over the State of Law coalition of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in March 7 elections for the Iraqi Council of Representatives. Neither party secured the 163 seats needed to unilaterally form a government in the 325-member council, however.

U. S. and Iraqi leaders announced on Monday that two Iraqi al-Qaida leaders have been killed in a U. S. air-strike.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that the bodies of the two al-Qaida leaders were found in a ditch after the Saturday air-strike.

Researchers have found that the longer a parent is deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan is linked to the level of anxiety experienced by the parent's child.

It was found by a study that the anxiety persists even after a deployed parent returns home.

Observers of the region have noted that most of Iraq's politicos traveled to Iran for guidance on running a democratic government, soon after the Iraqi elections in early March.

The New York Times has reported on Friday that three of the four major political alliances trekked to Tehran, but not the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Speaking instead about overall violence in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared on television but did not address rumours he had been assassinated.

The New York Times reported Monday that the prime minister, awaiting the outcome of returns in his re-election bid, appeared on TV Sunday night, praising the work of Iraqi security forces during the elections.

Maliki said," I do not believe that the killing and the bombs can bend the people from their path."