Iraq Security Depends On Strengthening Private Sector: Analysis
Now that we've withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraqi cities, American strategy must shift its emphasis from combat to post-conflict operations. As in post ...
Now that we've withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraqi cities, American strategy must shift its emphasis from combat to post-conflict operations. As in post ...
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 06.30.2009 | World
The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.
New York Times | Alissa J. Rubin | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD -- On the street here and in the well-furnished living rooms of the Iraqi intelligentsia, the recently approved Iraqi-American security pact i...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Standing in front of thousands of applauding soldiers in Kentucky, President Bush staunchly defended the US-led invasion of Iraq. He must have missed the Iraqis pummeling his effigy with their shoes on Friday.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The security agreement between U.S. and Iraq provides both the time and authority needed for American troops to train Iraqi forces ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Diplomacy is as important for keeping Iraq stable as it is for making sure that US troops are not targets of attacks by insurgents, or caught in the crossfire of an explosion of sectarian violence, as we begin to pull back.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Cabinet will vote Sunday on a security pact with Washington that would keep U.S. forces in the country for another three years,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
As Iraqi legislators prepare to vote this weekend on a proposed agreement with Washington regarding the legal status of American troops in the country...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A top Iraqi official warned Saturday that time is running out to sign a new security agreement with Washington, saying the country sti...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq wants a security agreement with the U.S. to include a clear ban on U.S. troops using Iraqi territory to attack Iraq's neighbors, ...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Biden was criticized when he warned that America's enemies would test Obama with an international crisis. It already exists in Iraq: the battle between Bush's Shi'ites and Ahmadinejad's Shi'ites.
New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN and STEVEN LEE MYERS | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Iraq and the United States are close to a deal on a sensitive security agreement that Iraqi officials said on Wednesday satisfies the nation's desire ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. and Iraq have abandoned attempts to forge a long-term security agreement. The focus is now on a "bridge doc...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in wor...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — New U.S. proposals have failed to overcome Iraqi opposition to a proposed security pact, two lawmakers said Thursday, and a senior gov...
Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Karen DeYoung | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi polit...
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Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.07.2009 | World