BAGHDAD, May 28 (UPI) -- Britain needs to do more to speed the release of five men kidnapped in Baghdad two years ago, Iraq's national security adviser said.

TEHRAN, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Files of members of an Iranian dissident group living in the Iraqi province of Diyala will be submitted to national courts, the Iraqi security adviser said.

TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- There is no other option available for the People's Mujahedin of Iran other than returning to Iran or finding asylum outside Iraq, officials said.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. and Iraqi officials say they will transfer command of Sunni citizens' patrols to the Iraqi government next month.

MOSUL, Iraq, May 16 (UPI) -- Iraqi military officials said Friday the operations targeting al-Qaida operatives in Mosul will be "ferocious" as the military campaign gains momentum.

WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- It's springtime in the Middle East once again, and that usually means that fighting season may breakout soon. Unless….

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- About 1,700 German companies are active in Iran ($7 billion in trade), where most companies are equipped with German technology. Under U.S. pressure, Germany’s three main commercial banks have closed their Tehran offices and Chancellor Angela Merkel, from the U.N. rostrum, urged a hard line against Iran’s nuclear program. But this finds little favorable echo in the Bundestag. Thus, EU sanctions would most likely be watered down to where neither Iran nor Germany would feel much pain.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Security of the oil infrastructure in Iraq is to be less of a priority than the economic factors, Iraq’s national security adviser predicts.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Iraq’s national security adviser says a deal is “very close” on a federal oil law -- one where “everybody goes home partly unhappy.”