By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - On the eve of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in 1959, Iraq's military head of state Abdul-Karim Qasim toured the streets of Baghdad by night, inspecting preparatio...
TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and six others injured in a car bomb explosion near a government office in Tikrit, the capital city of Salahudin province on Tuesday, a provincial police source said.
"A booby-trapped
BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded
changes to some points of a draft deal on the status of U.S. troops in Iraq
beyond 2008, website of a local Iraqi television said on Monday.
"There are still some
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi Shiite cleric was killed and 16
people injured in separate shooting and roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on
Monday, an Interior Ministry source said.
"Faris Jabir Thahir, a Shiite cleric, was killed by
' Kahl said in the briefing that, of the 103,000 Sunnis belonging to those militias, the Iraqi government had promised to take into the security forces only about 16,000. But in fact, it has approved only 600 applicants thus far, according to Kahl,
Baghdad : The region of Basra can at anytime declare its intention to designate itself a special administrative region, Mohammad Musbah Al Waili, the governor of Basra, said in an interview with Gulf News.
"There is popular and parliamentary pressure
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are very near agreement on an “aspirational” date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq. Barack Obama and John McCain will find language in the accord to allow each to take credit on the campaign trail for shaping
Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise Russian Roulette with a Rubik's Cube to a one-liner?
What Michael Gordon's 8,000 word article does well is detail the U.S.
Throughout summer 2008, Iraqi politicians tied to Tehran have put increasing political pressure on the U.S. government to allow Baghdad to control Camp Ashraf, the base housing Iran's main opposition -- the Mujahedin e Khalq (MEK). Options regarding
Baghdad: Sources close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki told Gulf News that he believes the time is right to subject the Kurdistan region, which has enjoyed autonomy headed by Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, to the authority of the central