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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government should reassess how best to use the U.S. military forces in place in the country, the Iraqi vice president said in an interview.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Islam is a set of guiding principles in Arab democracy where political differences result in an overall benefit for the people, the Iraqi vice president said.
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, visited a resort town in northern Iraqi Kurdistan to discuss the Kurdish-Arab row dividing the country, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi and Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim met the U.S. envoy to the United Nations to discuss the bilateral security pact.
The al-Adala newspaper of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council addressed the vote on the provincial council elections in its Wednesday editorial.
BAGHDAD, March 20 (UPI) -- A member of Iraq's Presidency Council withdrew his objection to a law seeking provincial elections by October, allowing it to go in effect, the council said.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The question is simple enough on the third and final day of a major Iraq energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with Iraq’s industry chiefs, politicians and technocrats: when will Baghdad set the ground rules for the international oil community’s long-awaited venture into the largest oil prize on earth?
BAGHDAD, March 7 (UPI) -- Shiites backing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari sought to block the nation's Parliament from holding its first meeting next Sunday.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Jordan's Prime Minister Adnan Badran met Saturday with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi in Baghdad to seek cooperation on a number of issues.
BAGHDAD, April 6 (UPI) -- Iraq's new president is expected to be sworn in Thursday and then immediately name conservative Shiite Muslim leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister.