Nouri Al Maliki

Secret Prison Still Open In Baghdad, Human Rights Group Claims

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

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By Barry Malone BAGHDAD, May 15 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said ...

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Growing Shiite-Sunni Divide In Post-U.S. Iraq

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 04.03.2012

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BAGHDAD -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis ...

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Wave Of Car Bombings Kill 14 In Baghdad

AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.24.2012

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BAGHDAD -- A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country amid ...

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A Momentum of Cynicism

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Lockheed Martin, Military Industrial Complex, Raytheon, Guantanamo, US Arms Sales, Iraq, Murat Kurnaz, Barack Obama, Sunnis, Nouri Al Maliki, Shiites, World News

The sale of arms to Iraq, $11 billion worth of almost everything, is going to move forward even though it makes little sense from multiple points of view, including U.S. geopolitical interests.

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Iraqi Government Demands VP Face Terrorism Charges

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...

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BLOODY THURSDAY: Iraq Bombings Kill Dozens

Posted 03.05.2012

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(Reuters) - Bomb attacks in mainly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Iraq killed at least 73 people and wounded scores on Thursday, police and hospital sour...

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Iraqi Leader Calls For Unity, Political Stability

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.02.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister called Sunday for unity and greater political stability to ensure the country's security after the end of the Am...

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The Fire Next Time

Terence Smith | Posted 02.26.2012

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The State Department is operating one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world in Baghdad, but the number of American combat forces in Iraq is zero. How long will it stay that way?

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Iraqi PM Shows Authoritarian Streak, Warns Of 'Rivers Of Blood'

AP | By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 12.28.2011

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BAGHDAD -- In the week since the last American troops left Iraq, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for the country's hig...

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Getting the Audit Right on Iraq

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Frederick Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, Joe Biden, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Obama Iraq, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iraq Withdrawal, War in Iraq, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Politics News

I think Biden and his team have done the best job that any outsider could have done in helping to calm sectarian distrust and to generate a commitment to a semi-democratic process as Iraq evolves.

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Suicide Bomber Kills 7 At Baghdad Checkpoint

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.24.2012

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BAGHDAD — The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elec...

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Nouri al-Maliki Is Becoming A New Saddam, Iraqi VP Says

Foreign Policy | URI FRIEDMAN | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Power Struggle, Iyad Allawi, Saleh Al-Mutlak, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Nouri Al-Maliki, Tareq Al-Hashemi, World News

Shortly before a wave of 15 bombings ripped through Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing more than 60 people, Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi wa...

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69 Killed, Dozens Injured In Series Of Baghdad Blasts

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.20.2012

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BAGHDAD — A terrifying wave of bombs tore through mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 69 people and evoking fea...

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Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant For Sunni VP

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 02.18.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a hit squad that as...

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A "Mass Murderer" Invited to the White House

Abbas Rezai | Posted 02.11.2012

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The disputable meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and President Obama will be held today in the White House. Mr. Maliki will be accompanied by Hadi Ameri, a government minister who has been the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards 9th Badr corps.

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WATCH: Obama Meets Iraqi PM

Posted 12.12.2011

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As US troops prepare to withdraw from Iraq ahead of the December 31, 2011, deadline, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with President Obama in ...

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As Troops Are Leaving Iraq, Obama Set To Meet PM

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 02.11.2012

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Iraqi PM: Bomb Was Targeting Me

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 02.02.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad's Green Zone was an assassination attempt against ...

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Preparing for a Sunni Arab Spring in Baghdad

Sami Moubayed | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Nouri Al-Maliki, Iran, Prince Nayef, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia, Iraq Sunnis, Iraqi, World News

The uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and now Syria have undoubtedly awakened a Sunni appetite for change in Iraq.

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Ruinous Victories

Bruce Fein | Posted 12.25.2011

Politicians are chronically myopic and generally ill-educated. Whenever they claim victory abroad, skepticism is justified. The latest case of Libya is no different.

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Bombs Rock Iraq Holy City

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB and SAAD ABDUL-KADIR | Posted 11.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Back-to-back bomb blasts ripped through one of the holiest cities in Shiite Islam Sunday, killing at least 10 people in a community st...

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Iraq Plans 2006 U.S. Shooting Inquiry After WikiLeaks Allegations

AP | LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.02.2011

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BAGHDAD — Negotiations to keep U.S. troops in Iraq came under new strain Friday in the wake of WikiLeaks' release of a U.N. letter alleging that...

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Obama Administration Searching For A Way To Stay In Iraq?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is facing a major political and strategic dilemma as it debates a continued troop presence in Iraq after this y...

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USA & Iraq: Preparing for the Long Term

James Denselow | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Baghdad, Iran, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Iraq, Occupation, Nouri Al Maliki, World News

After 8 years and a significant decrease in violence from the peak of the civil conflict with attacks down from an average of 49 a day in 2008 to 14 now, the media has grown deaf to the casual horror the country faces.

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Reid Changes the Game on Iraq

Ashwin Madia | Posted 09.04.2011

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For years, many lamented that the U.S. decision to invade Iraq detracted from our focus on Afghanistan and made Afghanistan the forgotten war. But now, with a false declaration that combat operations are over in Iraq, the ongoing action there has ironically become the new forgotten war. Yet, we need look no further than the recent spike in violence and American deaths in Iraq to remind us that we are still very much at war in that country. Fifteen Americans died in Iraq in June, making it the deadliest period there for American troops in two years. It is for this reason that Senator Harry Reid's forceful declaration today opposing our continued presence in Iraq should not be understated.

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