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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Iraqi officials are waiting for the U.S. government's response to the proposed bilateral security pact, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said Thursday.
On Friday, Iraqi newspapers discussed the issue of the negotiated long-term strategic agreement between the United States and Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The dilemmas generated by U.S. President George W. Bush's contradictory and confused policies in Iraq have been moving from tragedy to farce.
NAJAF, Iraq, July 8 (UPI) -- Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani Tuesday rejected the security deal between Iraq and the United States on the grounds it violates Iraqi sovereignty.
NAJAF, Iraq, April 23 (UPI) -- Najaf is the center of Shiite Islam in Iraq, and with its clerics split between politics and the gun, if it turns violent the rest of the south may follow suit.
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- This Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Five years during which time America has been at war; make that wars, in the plural. While Iraq, due to the sheer scale of the conflict, seems to take center stage, there are two other wars being fought simultaneously. One is in Afghanistan against the resurgent Taliban who simply refuse to be beaten, and the other is the one President Bush likes to call "the war on terror."
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Watching them drive by at 30 mph would take 75 days. Bumper-to-bumper, they would stretch from New York City to Denver. That’s how U.S. Air Force logistical expert Lenny Richoux described the amount of vehicles that would have to be shipped back from Iraq when the current deployment is over. These include, among others, 10,000 flatbed trucks, 1,000 tanks and 20,000 Humvees.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Gunmen shot and killed the deputy of Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani near his home in Najaf, Iraq.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, May 15 (UPI) -- The Arabic al-Jazeera television network was thrown out and prevented from covering a news conference by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Abu Dhabi.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Iraqi forces fought with hundreds of gunmen Sunday in what may have been one of Iraq's deadliest battles in years, The New York Times reported.