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Iraq's prime minister said US troops are leaving Iraq after 9 years because Baghdad rejected American demands that any US military forces to stay would have to be shielded from prosecution or lawsuits. It was Iraq who refused to let the US remain und
Turkish jets kept up bombing raids on Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq overnight, as the rebels confirmed that some Turkish troops crossed into Iraq, officials and media reports said on Friday. Turkish war planes continued to take off from Diy
President Obama today announced that the United States will pull all its troop from Iraq by the end of the year. “The rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” the president said. “After nine years, America’s war in Iraq w
the appellate panel found the two companies had government contractor immunity and the claims were preempted, based on a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling and other precedents in the national security and foreign policy areas. "During wartime, where
So what will all those bad boys be doing in Iraq? They would undoubtedly just keep on keeping on with what they are already doing -- hunting down individuals and killing them. The bin Laden raid was a varsity-level operation of this type, but night a
The embassy compound is by far the largest the world has ever seen, at one and a half square miles, big enough for 94 football fields. It cost three quarters of a billion dollars to build (coming in about $150 million over budget). Inside its high wa
During a televised speech today, Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani publicly requested Baghdad retain U.S. troops beyond a Dec. 31 deadline to withdraw.
The Obama administration wants to keep troops in Iraq. Never mind that pre-President Barack Obama criticized the war. Never mind that Uncle Sam's annual budget deficits exceed $1 trillion. Never mind that Washington faces more than $100 trillion i
Iraq will open talks with Washington over a military training mission to last beyond a 2011 pullout deadline, Baghdad's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, after months of US appeals for a decision.
Iraqi officials confirmed today what we already knew: that the weekend deadline for approving the continued US occupation has passed and that no deal has been reached. Indeed, no deal appears forthcoming any time soon.
U.S. officials tell The Wall Street Journal the Iraqi government may buy as many as 36 U.S. fighter jets worth billions of dollars. Iraq delayed the planned purchase of 18 jets in February, when politicians said they instead planned to beef up food r
The White House is prepared to keep 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year. Keeping troops in Iraq after the deadline for their departure at the end of December would require agreement of Iraq's deeply divided government, which is
In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country.
Iraqi authorities have asked for a US congressman to leave the country after he called for Baghdad to repay part of the money spent by Washington since the 2003 invasion, a spokesman said on Saturday.
The State Department is preparing to spend close to $3 billion to hire a security force to protect diplomats in Iraq after the U.S. pulls its last troops out of the country by year's end.
Even as the American military winds down its eight-year war in Iraq, commanders are bracing for what they fear could be the most dangerous remaining mission: getting the last troops out safely.
Billions of dollars worth of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq could fall into disrepair over the next few years because inadequate provisions have been made to pay for their ongoing operations and maintenance, according
Have you heard the rumors about the Iraqi dinar? Week in, week out, we receive at least 2-3 questions about this. The ‘word on the street’ is that the Iraqi government is set to “increase” the value of the dinar, essentially re-peg it against the do
Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff said Thursday the former Secretary of State was lied to and manipulated by Vice President Dick Cheney into justifying the US invasion of Iraq.
[now that we finished driving the Sunni's out] Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.
Let's ignore Iraq. It's a Democracy now. Nothing happening there. Good ...
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest attacked a police recruitment center in northern Iraq Tuesday, a bloody strike that killed at least 65 people and wounded 160 others.
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said his followers in Iraq were still resisting the US "enemy" with all means, including military. But he tempered his fiery words saying the new Iraqi government should be given a chance to get American forces ou
Authors of the study found deformities in the babies are almost 11 times higher than average rates. Those deformities spiked in the first half of 2010.
Documents released by Wikileaks reveal WMD in Iraq after war uncovered by U.S. troops that include a number of chemical weapons caches that Iraqi insurgents may have used to make their own arsenals.
U.S. embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks reported a British official, Jon Day, as telling U.S. officials in 2009 that Britain had "put [secret] measures in place to protect your interests" during the inquiry into the Iraq war.
A newly released WikiLeaks document on Iraq and the new political alignment between Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki both provide fresh evidence that Gen. David Petraeus’s war against Shi’ite militias in 2007-2008 was a futile
Saddam Hussein's longtime foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by hanging for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. Tribunal spokesman Abdul-Sahib did not say when Aziz would be put to death.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been running a "detention squad" that exists outside the military command structure and may be cracking down on Sunni Muslims who oppose the Shia Muslim leader, according to an analysis of documents in the Wik
