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BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.
Detainees razz Packer fans serving overseas.
Iraqi lawmakers will vote Saturday on how to break a deadlock over a key election law after a vice president vetoed the legislation, causing a crisis that could delay a national vote scheduled for January.
An Iraqi official on Wednesday threw a wrench into plans for January's national elections, which could delay the vote and U.S. troop withdrawal.
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EL PASO -- Establishing law and order in Iraq requires more than kicking down doors and eliminating insurgents.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Parliament should act swiftly to adopt reforms to a national election law so the vote can proceed in January, the U.N. secretary-general said.
With a push from a University of Massachusetts at Boston professor, local and national Iraqi legislators are meeting today in Baghdad to defuse explosive disputes in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where ethnic and political conflicts threaten to derail Iraq’s halting progress toward a working democracy.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq says the timetable for an American troop withdrawal is still on track despite a dispute over a key election law that could delay national elections slated for January.
Brett Favre is apparently the favorite quarterback of the Iraqi detainees being guarded by soldiers from a National Guard unit based in Chippewa Falls.
It started with a desire to help Green Bay school graduates who are serving overseas -- but with two days left it has spun off to be much more.
Three Marines and a Navy man convicted of aiding the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man have been ordered removed from the military, the Navy said Wednesday.
The United States will take in "substantial" numbers of Iraqi refugees next year, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said Wednesday.
A top Iraqi official vetoed the country's election law Wednesday, throwing plans to hold parliamentary elections in January into disarray. The move could unravel hard-won compromises, and it could complicate U.S. efforts to withdraw U.S. combat troops next year.
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad , in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped fight al-Qaida .
It’s bad enough for Green Bay Packer fans to watch longtime quarterback Brett Favre tear up the football field for the rival Minnesota Vikings. But now even U.S. soldiers halfway around the world are getting teased about the former Green Bay golden boy—from suspected enemy militants.
