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BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American...
By Huda Al-Jasim Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat- At a press conference held on Wednesday in Baghdad, Vice-President al-Hashemi announced that he was vetoing part of the electoral law, telling journalists "I sent a letter to...
According to the Iraqi government, Syria is responsible for 90% of the insurgent violence still wracking the country. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki angrily blamed the Syrians for two massive bombing attacks aimed at government...
Associated Press PARIS: France laid the groundwork Monday for deeper ties with Iraq, signing two deals aimed at putting French know-how back in play in the country six years after Paris shunned the US-led war to topple Saddam...
The Christian Science Monitor - The execution-style killings of 13 Iraqis over the weekend west of Baghdad has raised fears than a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is taking advantage of the gaps between retreating US forces...
Bureaucracy Grinds to a Halt: Blasts at Iraqi Government Buildings Cripple Services By BARBARA SURK Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD November 17, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from...
Warid Badr Salim's front-page satire in a recent edition of the newspaper al-Mada compared Iraq's parliament to wolves stalking sheep - the Iraqi people - and cheekily suggested that its members need the diplomatic passports...
How easy it is to declare Iraq "turned around" while an ancient people face the swirling desert sands of their own extinction. While it might sound a bit hyperbolic, there is no denying that the Christian minority in Iraq is...
Policy arguments in Washington sometimes take on an other-worldly feel -- and so it is with the public wrangling over Afghanistan policy. Outside the walls of the Obama administration, the argument has been almost entirely...
BASRA, Iraq, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stopped a Qatari prince from hunting in Iraq despite his having received permission to do so in advance, Azzaman reported. The Iraqi newspaper said Sunday that...
