Pentagon prepares for new military talks with Iraq The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief policy aide.
Iraq detains 16 vice presidential guards Iraqi security forces have detained 16 of Tareq al-Hashemi's bodyguards, the interior ministry said, in a move the fugitive vice president said Tuesday was the latest in a string of false accusations.
Biden tries to defuse tensions in Iraq As recent bloodshed raises fears of renewed sectarian violence in Iraq, U.S. Vice President Biden has been calling Iraqi leaders in an apparent attempt to soothe political tensions, the White House said Saturday.
Rights group says Iraq becoming 'police state' Iraq's Shiite-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an international rights groups said Sunday.
Bloc ends Iraq parliament boycott Iraq's opposition Iraqiyya bloc ends a boycott of parliament begun last month over an arrest warrant issued for the country's most senior Sunni politician.
Scenarios: Can Iraq survive its own politics? BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's political crisis shows no sign of easing a month after the Shi'ite-led government sought the arrest of a Sunni vice president, triggering fears that Iraq, without the buffer of U.S. troops, could return to sectarian conflict. Accused of running death squads, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi is holed up in Iraqi Kurdistan as a guest of Iraq's Kurdish president. The ...
Kuwait elex: Arab Spring ?tea leaves? A year into the Arab Spring, the forces that provoked revolutions across the Middle East are competing for power in a country not directly affected by the upheavals. The fight, on miniature scale, concerns around 400,000 voters in Kuwait, the oil-rich emirate sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Elections...
Deadly bomb near Iraq school A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country a month after the U.S. military withdrawal.
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Injured veteran files to run for Chandler council A 27-year-old Army veteran who was injured in has filed paperwork to run for Chandler City Council in the Aug. 28 primary . If he submits the required 1,000 signatures on nomination petitions before the May 30 deadline, Kevin Kane ...
White House plans dinner to honor vets Polls showed Americans had grown weary of the war, and Mr. Obama won , in part, on his pledge to bring the war to an end. "As President, I will end this war," said candidate Obama in speech after campaign speech leading to his ...
U.S. Drones Flying in Skies Provoke Anger Allawi has said needs to replace al-Maliki or hold new to prevent the country from fracturing along sectarian lines. In a positive sign, 's Sunni leaders announced on Sunday that they will end their boycott of parliament. That may have ...
bill to ban travels to Israel According to the source, the politicians made their first trips to Israel after the , held on January 2010, until around October that same year. The officer claimed that during questioning of the Iraqis, it was discovered that they were ...
Obama Traded Stability in for Votes Here's what success in looks like: democratic , sectarian comity, independence in foreign policy, al Qaeda stymied, cooperating with the United States, and self-sufficiency. didn't look completely like that in early 2011 ...
VP Predicts Sectarian Violence Though 's instability may not affect this year's campaign in the United States, "it is going to affect the American interest in the region, and they should be very much concern about that," al-Hashimi said. "The future of is grim."
Obama Gets 'Average' Grade for His First Three Years in Office In , the President kept his campaign promise and American ... The President has set a fine example as a good family man in an age when many politicians fall short. The in November and history will be the final arbiters of how ...
detains 16 vice presidential guards aimed at resolving 's political crisis. Iraqiya won the most seats in March 2010 parliamentary but was outmanouevred by Maliki in forming a government.
War vet from Quincy hopes to unseat U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch A native of Argentina who lives in Quincy and is an war veteran has announced he will challenge U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch in November?s for the newly constituted 8th Congressional District seat. Matias ?Matt? Temperley, 30, a Republican ...
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Elections in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elections in Iraq gives information on election and election results in Iraq. Under the Iraqi constitution of 1925, Iraq was a constitutional monarchy, with a ...
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq election at-a-glance Iraq has set a date of 30 January 2005 for its first nationwide election since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. We look at the key issues surrounding the vote and how ...
Iraq Elections newswire Up-to-the-minute news stories, opinion, and blog posts on the Iraqi politicial scene.
IRAQ ELECTIONS - At War Blog - NYTimes.com The outcome of the recent parliamentary elections in Iraq has been followed by a collective sense of relief in the larger Arab world. The surprise winner, former ...
Iraqi national elections - SourceWatch 1 The road to elections in Iraq - tussles between the CPA and the IGC; 2 Iraqi national election December 2005; 3 Iraqi national election January 2005