BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law making foreign security contractors subject to Iraqi laws and liability.

The Baghdad-based Al Mada newspaper in an editorial Monday -- headlined “"The U.S. presence in Iraq: Questions need to be answered" – criticized U.S. policies in Iraq.

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former U.S. commander in post-invasion Iraq, lambasted the Bush administration Friday for "incompetent strategic leadership."

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, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The former U.S. envoy to Iraq is challenging President George Bush's published claim he wasn't aware of plans to dismantle the Iraqi military.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- With the situation in Iraq becoming more complicated amid increasing setbacks so too is the political recrimination becoming more apparent. Meanwhile, attributing blame for the failures in Iraq is turning into something of a national pastime.

UPI almanac for Sunday, May 6, 2007.

LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A former British defense secretary said in a newspaper interview that the United States ignored advice against disbanding the Iraqi army.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. method of pacifying Iraq after Saddam Hussein's fall actually may have spurred an anti-American insurgency, The Washington Post reported Sunday.