State Department Iraq

Blackwater Still In Business: State Department Fumbles Effort To Oust Them From Iraq

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Your tax dollars at work: as part of their effort to stop doing business in Iraq with companies affiliated with the controversial paramilitary contrac...

A Troubled World Awaits President Obama

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics


Eric Margolis

Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.

U.S. Helped Western Companies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil

NY Times | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and fiv...

US Embassy Personnel In Baghdad Told Not To Leave 'Reinforced Structures' Due To Incoming Insurgent Fire

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home


WASHINGTON — The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming...

U.S. Diplomats In Baghdad Plead: Come Work In Iraq

AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Diplomats at the American embassy in Baghdad on Monday pleaded to their state department colleagues back home to come to work in Iraq -- a posting see...