WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The growing sentiment that the mission in Iraq has succeeded with the passage of a bilateral security accord with Washington is misplaced, a scholar says.

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.

TEHRAN, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the Iraqi government to avoid succumbing to U.S. demands for a security deal with Washington.

TEHRAN, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Iranian state-run media Wednesday carried a statement from a senior Shiite Iraqi lawmaker saying the dissident People's Mujahedin of Iran has links to al-Qaida.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Top Shiite lawmakers convened in Baghdad Thursday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss political developments as security in the city improves.

BAQUBA, Iraq, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala intended to target al-Qaida fighters is focused on Sunnis only, residents say.

DAMASCUS, Syria, July 31 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hosted Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council at a meeting on improving bilateral relations.

BAGHDAD, July 2 (UPI) -- The improved security and political environment in Iraq spawned renewed diplomatic interest from its neighbors, the foreign minister said in Baghdad Wednesday.

BAGHDAD, June 21 (UPI) -- A Shiite lawmaker with the United Iraqi Alliance said Friday Baghdad is in negotiations with U.S. officials over the fate of an Iranian opposition group.