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At least eight people were killed in violence in Iraq on Thursday amid a continued power vacuum as prime minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki missed a personal deadline to present…
Iraqi prime minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki said on Tuesday that he expected to have his Cabinet line-up ready for approval in two weeks as hectic lobbying began for key…
Shi’ite leader Jawad al-Maliki has been given 30 days to form Iraq’s first full-term post-Saddam Hussein government after being nominated as prime minister to end a four-month…
At least 21 people were killed when a car-bomb ripped through a mostly-Shi’ite market in southern Baghdad on Tuesday as visiting British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw appealed for…
The assassination on Tuesday of a Sunni candidate in Iraq’s election cast a shadow over expatriate voting for a new Parliament that many hope will restore stability to the…
The gripping trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein over a Shi’ite massacre 23 years ago continued on Tuesday as the court heard chilling evidence from a tearful woman…
The defence lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein who was kidnapped just a day after the opening of the former Iraqi dictator’s trial over a Shi’ite massacre has been…
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein goes on trial on Wednesday on charges of crimes against humanity in the first of what could be several cases over atrocities committed during…
Under United Nations pressure, Iraq’s Parliament on Wednesday reversed changes to an electoral law that critics had charged made it harder to reject the new and deeply divisive…
Iraqi leaders tried on Wednesday to persuade furious Sunni Arabs to sign up to the draft Constitution, a day before the charter goes to Parliament where conservative Shi’ites and…
Iraq roped in disenchanted Sunni Arabs for last-minute talks on Monday on thorny issues dogging the drafting of the Constitution just hours before a deadline to complete the…
A leading Iraqi Shi’ite politician demanded autonomy for central and southern provinces where the majority community predominates on Thursday, four days before the deadline for a…
Iraqi leaders prepared on Thursday for a conference to try to break the deadlock on a draft Constitution amid unabated violence that left at least 20 people dead, a day after 15…
Iraqi insurgents are waging an all-out war on the country’s vital oil industry, which has lost nearly -billion in revenue since last year’s United States-led invasion. Osama bin…
Parliament has rubberstamped Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s uncontested candidacy for another seven-year term in a direct challenge to US plots to oust him ”who inspires fear”.
