Kuwait

BAGHDAD - The head of Iraqi Airways can now leave Britain after being held there for more than a week over a two-decade-old dispute with Kuwait, Iraq's Transportation Ministry said Thursday.

BAGHDAD - Lawyers working for Kuwait attempted to confiscate the first Iraqi Airways plane to land in London in 20 years over a dispute dating back to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the oil-rich Gulf state, the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation said Thursday.