Obama Sticks To A Fast-Approaching Deadline In Iraq
When President Obama approved a plan to withdraw combat forces from Iraq this summer, it was based on the assumption that a newly elected government ...
When President Obama approved a plan to withdraw combat forces from Iraq this summer, it was based on the assumption that a newly elected government ...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court threw the nation's disputed election into deeper disarray Monday by disqualifying 52 candidates, including one winner, ...
Amir Madani | Posted 05.25.2011
The emerging trend of the Iraqi vote suggests moderation and compromise at all levels. But, in spite of some unexpected results, the big issue remains the ethnic and confessional partitioning of the country.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — For the first time since the 2003 overthrow of their patron, Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Sunni Arabs are on the winning side. But the trium...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Gunmen armed with silenced pistols fatally shot a Health Ministry official at his home in Baghdad in an apparent targeting of governme...
AP / Huffington Post | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Former U.S.-backed prime minister Ayad Allawi and his secular, anti-Iranian coalition narrowly won Iraq's parliamentary elections in f...
nytimes.com | TIM ARANGO | Posted 05.25.2011
Flanked by his national security team, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki went on television Sunday night and praised Iraq's security forces for thei...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — A secular coalition challenging the Iraqi prime minister in the country's historic parliamentary elections has narrowly pulled ahead f...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of ...
guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov | Posted 05.25.2011
A strong turnout from Iraq's Kurds in national elections on Sunday has enhanced their status of kingmakers in forming the central government, with pre...
Molly Hunter | Posted 05.25.2011
Today in Iraq, women have few education and employment opportunities. It's time for Iraqi politicians of all genders, religions, and political parties to advocate for women.
AP | REBECCA SANTANA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after histori...
Posted 05.25.2011
COURTESY OF THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Iraqis head to the polls on Sunday for what is considered a fundamental test of the fle...
Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011
I just returned from my sixth trip to Iraq where I expected to film a preview of Sunday's elections for an episode of my show Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English, but instead I found a civil war in the making.
jpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraq is rife with allegations of vote buying a week ahead of the country's national elections. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
For the first time since the war began, there are fewer than 100,000 American troops in Iraq.
AP | MATT APUZZO and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden brought Washington's concerns about Iraqi political tensions directly to leaders in Baghdad on Friday, but of...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law that pleased minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillar...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers failed Thursday to agree on an election law for the country's January vote, raising concerns the balloting may be dela...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi parliament on Sunday failed to resolve an impasse threatening to delay the country's election in January, which could af...
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's electoral commission on Thursday barred 500 candidates from running in March's parliamentary election, including a prominent Su...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraq's path toward political stability after years of war threatened to veer off course Wednesday when a vice president vetoed part of...
McClatchy Washington Bureau | Trenton Daniel and Leila Fadel | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD -- The pro-Iranian party that's dominated Iraq's political life since the U.S.-sponsored elections in 2005 suffered a huge loss in last Saturd...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.25.2011
In comparison to the brave women running for office in Iraq, why are American women so accepting of the political status quo. Why aren't we running for office more often? What do we risk?
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation's quest for stability...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011