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Almost all the candidates who contested their ban from Iraq's upcoming parliamentary election did not submit their cases properly and lost the chance to appeal, an Iraqi legal body said on Tuesday.
Iraq's prime minister says he accepts an appeals panel's jurisdiction over a ban on candidates from March 7 parliamentary elections for their suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime.
KIRKUK, Iraq, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A joint security force in the north of Iraq is a divisive issue among Kurdish supporters and opponents in the Arab and Turkmen community, leaders say.
BAGHDAD -- Iraq staggered toward a resolution of its election crisis on Sunday as the country's leaders gave an appeals court time to reconsider a ban on hundreds of candidates barred from next month's election because of alleged links to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
Baghdad - Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi warned politicians against exploiting sectarian sentiment for electoral gain, in an interview published Tuesday. His remarks came amid a boiling political dispute over whether some 500 candidates previo...
Army National Guard Spec. Keon D. Jordan has returned to the United States after being deployed to an overseas forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom . Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq . Mission objectives focus ...
Siemens Healthcare Wins $69 Million Iraqi Health Ministry Contract
The report forecasts that Iraq will account for 8.41% of Middle East (ME) regional oil demand by 2013, while providing 11.07% of supply.
Radical Shiite Islamists who claim to have kidnapped a US military contractor of Iraqi origin said on Sunday they are also holding a second American hostage captured two years ago.
Twenty-five Yale students gathered with about 20 Iraqi refugees in the Kasbah Gardens Café on Howe Street on Saturday and bonded over Iraqi food. At the two-hour event, held by the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, they discussed topics ranging from bronze sculptures made by an Iraqi refugee to snowboarding.
Iraqi leaders on Saturday pushed the country's highest court to issue a quick ruling on hundreds of candidates who have been banned from running in March elections, warning that parliament will settle the controversy if the judges don't.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The American military is rushing delivery of dozens of bomb-detection dogs to Iraq after accusations that widely used mechanical devices are ineffective to pinpoint explosives at checkpoints and other search sites, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
BAGHDAD — A missing Iraqi-American contractor was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen who lured him into central Baghdad by...
A militant group in Iraq is claiming it has kidnapped an American civilian contractor.
Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawaa Party demonstrated outside the house of parliament in Baghdad on Sunday, to call for the exclusion of Baathist candidates from the March polls. Al-Maliki had called fo...
Iraq's prime minister says he will not allow the U.S. ambassador to meddle in an effort to bar hundreds of candidates from running in March parliamentary elections because of suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime.
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