BAGHDAD: Weeks before the US pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicts that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence.
Nouri Al-Maliki also warned on (...)
BAGHDAD: A US State Department program to train Iraqi police lacks focus, could become a "bottomless pit" of American money and may not even be wanted by the Iraqi department it's supposed to help, reports released Monday by a US government watchdog (...)
BAGHDAD - The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline.
A senior administration official in Washington confirmed Saturday that all American (...)
A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the United States and Iraq.
Ranging from a medieval religious book to children's Hebrew (...)
BAGHDAD: A week after the death of Osama bin Laden, his longtime deputy is considered the front-runner to succeed the iconic Al-Qaeda founder. But uprisings in the Middle East and changing dynamics within the group could point to another scenario: a (...)
NAJAF: Muqtada Al-Sadr lashed out at the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rhetoric from a new powerbroker in the government that will make it difficult to extend the US military (...)
BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki will return to power for another four-year term after Iraqi lawmakers working late into the night agreed on a tentative deal to form a new government, lawmakers said.
The deal, struck late Wednesday, breaks (...)
BAGHDAD: A French airliner landed at Baghdad International Airport Sunday, becoming one of the first passenger planes to fly into the Iraqi capital direct from Western Europe since the Gulf War and opening a potential new route to stronger (...)
AL-FARIS: Just about every man from the village of al-Faris has worked at the nearby Taji military base. The American money and influence is seen in the new cars, the additions to houses, even the billiards hall with a guitar from an American (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's committee charged with vetting officials for ties to Saddam Hussein's regime will not ban any more candidates from the disputed election though the fate of nine others that could change the results appeared unresolved, officials said (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials began on Monday a controversial recount of the 2.5 million ballots cast in Baghdad, a move requested by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki who narrowly lost a parliamentary election held nearly two months ago.
Political (...)
Dr Abbas Al-Sahan s patient wasn t a war victim. She didn t have a scar that needed cosmetic surgery. All she wanted was a cute nose. And she got it.
Speaking after the surgery, bandages and swelling gone, 23-year-old Sarah Saad Abdul-Hameed was (...)
CAIRO: Archaeologists next week will begin excavating three sites in Egypt near the Mediterranean Sea that may contain the tombs of doomed lovers, Cleopatra and Mark Anthony.
In a statement Wednesday, Egypt s Supreme Council of Antiquities said (...)
SAKKARA: A pair of 4,300-year-old Pharaonic tombs discovered at Sakkara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, said Egypt s top archaeologist Monday.
The rock cut tombs were built for high (...)
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In a global series of concerts featuring aboriginal dancing, imitation chimpanzee cries and a lot of reunited rock bands, musicians and celebrities called for fans to take action against global warming.
A 24-hour music (...)