IRAQI PRIME MINISTER HOLDS MEETINGS IN IRAQ
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (L) and President Jalal.Talabani (2nd-L) hold a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq with Vice.Presidents Adil Abdul-Mahdi (2nd-R) Tariq al-Hashimi, (3rd-R) and the presidential council's secretary Nasir al-Ani (R) on July 15, 2007. The group met to discuss the political crisis the country is passing through as well as.the release of detainees who were not involved in crimes (UPI Photo)
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Washington is looking at finding a more efficient way to maintain a diplomatic presence in Baghdad that matches the situation on the ground, an official said.
ERBIL, Iraq, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is pushing the country to a major sectarian divide, an Iraqi vice president said.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The Sunni-backed Iraqiya slate said ti was ending its boycott of the Iraqi Parliament ahead of a planned national conference, a spokeswoman said.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Sunni leader of a human rights commission in Baghdad expressed concern Friday that political conflict was taking on a sectarian tone.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A second group of bodyguards for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi is expected to make statements against him by week's end, Iraqi television reports.
ERBIL, Iraq, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The semiautonomous Kurdish government in Iraq isn't obliged to carry out an arrest warrant for the Iraqi vice president, a deputy interior minister said.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- An arrest issued for the Iraqi vice president is one of many pressing political issues the country is facing after American forces left, a party official said.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- At least 72 people were killed Thursday in sectarian bombings in Iraq, including 48 Shiite pilgrims who died in a suicide attack.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The United Nations' mission in Iraq is ready to help build trust among Iraqi political leaders locked in bitter rows after the U.S. withdrawal, an envoy said.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- With 2012 marking a new era for Iraq without U.S. forces in the county, dialogue should rule the day, the U.N. secretary general said.
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