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The prime minister appealed Wednesday to Iraqis to stand by their security forces, even as angry lawmakers demanded answers and called on top officials to resign following the third massive attack against government sites since summer.
The death of an Iraqi counterterror officer in a suicide bombing could embolden al-Qaida loyalists to try to make a return to the area around Saddam Hussein's hometown where he held sway.
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. It was 2:40 a.m. today and no one was yawning.
Because the U.S. post war reconstruction plan in Iraq has been grossly mishandled and has proven to be largely ineffectual, Iraqi artists and filmmakers have decided to take cultural reconstruction efforts into their own hands. Recently in Baghdad, Iraqi filmmakers unveiled the city’s first traveling film festival, showcased at sites where explosions have ruined cultural [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) - He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi insurgent fighter first.
Vice President Biden spoke today with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss the President’s decision on the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Vice President stressed that U.S. actions to reinforce Afghanistan will not come at the expense of the U.S.-Iraq bilateral relationship. Also, as he did with other Iraqi leaders over the weekend, the Vice President commended Prime ...
BAGHDAD - Iraq's vice president said Thursday he remains open to talks to break an impasse on holding parliamentary elections scheduled for next month, but stands by his demand that minority Sunnis have a greater voice in the voting.
France's Total and Japan's Nippon Oil are seen as front-runners to secure development rights to some of the 10 Iraqi oil fields up for auction in Baghdad next week that the government hopes will triple oil production and restore the crisis-torn country's fortunes.
(RTTNews) - Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi announced Thursday he had postponed until Sunday a decision on whether to accept or veto an amended version of the country's election law for next year's crucial parliamentary polls, after a court gave him more time.
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber killed a senior Iraqi police official in the northern city of Tikrit on Thursday in an attack that authorities blamed on al-Qaeda in Iraq.
An Iraqi native who now lives in Minneapolis, Minn., spoke Tuesday at Nicolet College’s Rhinelander-area campus promoting peace while saying his piece about the situation in his home country.
An Iraqi security official says a bomb at a roadside market in northern Baghdad killed one and wounded six people.
In other news, the United Nations reported that Iraq will delay its national elections by one more month, and China, India, Brazil and South Africa refused to cut carbon emissions by 2050.
An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris Tuesday.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
While speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a thrown shoe. al-Zeidi is infamous for throwing his shoes at President Bush in Iraq 2008.
