RAMADI, Iraq, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida in Iraq is finished and the remaining battles will be fought among the political parties at the ballot box, a Sunni tribal leader said.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The next round of Iraqi elections in 2009 will have a greater impact on the emerging Iraqi state and its identity than any other, the foreign minister said.
RAMADI, Iraq, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The Sunni tribal elders in the western Iraqi province of Anbar will form an electoral bloc to run in the provincial elections, a top official said.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Blocking a Syrian broadcast linked to the Iraqi insurgency is a propaganda effort by U.S. officials to back claims of victory, a former Iraqi lawmaker said.
ERBIL, Iraq, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Kurdish intelligence services are cooperating with military forces in Iraq, though some political wrangling is hurting relations with Baghdad, officials said.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Hamas says it won't negotiate on demands for an exchange of more than 1,000 prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
ERBIL, Iraq, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Officials in the security arm of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party Thursday denied allegations the force had carried out guerrilla raids in the region.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr issued a decree stating only an elite force may carry arms while the rest of his supporters will advocate social awareness in Iraq.
LONDON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Iranian special forces played no role in training Shiite militias in southern Iraq, a former Iranian military officer said in regard to U.S. claims.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Leaders of the African Union say they are ready to suspend Mauritania because of the recent overthrow of that country's democratically elected president.