Mahmoud al-Mashhadani

Iraq's Cabinet says yes to US Pact

Iraq's Cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact with the United States on Sunday, ending prolonged negotiations to allow American forces to remain for three more years in the country they first occupied in 2003. The deal...

Daily Star Political News: Berri meets with Iraqi counterpart

Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday discussed the building of a headquarters in Damascus for the Arab Parliamentary Union as well as the US-Iraqi security pact with Iraqi counterpart Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. Following the meeting at...

The Iraqi Provincial Elections Law and the Terror Against the Assyrians in Mosul

The various coalitions and/or slates in the Iraqi Parliament struggled for months to reach an understanding and consensus in regards to the Provincial Elections Law. On July 15, 2008 two members of Iraqi Parliament, Younadam...

Kuwait's Ambassador to Iraq meets Iraqi officials

BAGHDAD, Oct 29 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's ambassador in Baghdad Ali Al-Mo'men met here on Wednesday Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafi'a Issawi. A source in the office of al-Mashhadani said...

Analysis: Iraqi oil law still stuck

Baghdad, Iraq (UPI) Oct 29, 2008 - The Iraqi Parliament's Oil and Gas Committee will meet Tuesday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to determine the fate of the draft oil law, after a version of the long-awaited bill made a...

Iraq's female lawmakers make strides

BAGHDAD — It took a lot to make the female members of Iraq's parliament finally snap. "We decided to show them that without women, you cannot pass laws," says Ala Talabani, one of the women who boycotted. Getting little notice...

Iraq's female lawmakers making strides

By JIM MICHAELS • USA TODAY • October 27, 2008 BAGHDAD — It took a lot to make the female members of Iraq’s parliament finally snap. Getting little notice amid the violence of the past several years is an astounding experiment...

The Earlybird: Headlines 10/27/08 (Updated after 8:30 a.m. ET)

NationalJournal.com October 27, 2008 "Even in the fall of 2006, when his poll numbers were already sliding," President Bush "spent the last weeks of the campaign season barnstorming around the country on behalf of GOP...

Iraq's female lawmakers make strides

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:11 AM EDT It took a lot to make the female members of Iraq's parliament finally snap. They tolerated being cut off while speaking, or not being called on at all — or being...

Iraqi parliament committee fails to back oil law

Source: Reuters By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Iraq's long-awaited hydrocarbons law failed to win the backing of parliament's Oil and Gas Committee on Sunday, with Kurdish members insisting the bill ...