Less than two months into 2012, the Iraqi government has executed at least 65 prisoners, as the country continues to slip into dictatorship with continued support from the U.S. Many aspects of the government in Baghdad have spiraled out of control since the end of the U.S. military occupation, but the rate of state executions [...]
Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars | Baghdad-based CIA spying on Maliki government
Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad. An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi government delayed the closure of Camp Ashraf, where up to 3,200 members of the MEK [...]
Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan: A Marriage of Convenience
Iraq’s Crisis: Vice President Hashemi Speaks | Broad interview covers array of topics
Iraq does not plan to abide by Washington’s sanctions on Iran, as Baghdad officials announce they plan to submit a waiver to the U.S. government. The U.S. has heaped harsh economic sanctions on Iran and has managed to convince the European Union to go along with a complete ban on Iranian imported oil, measures that [...]
Iraqi security forces have detained 16 of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi’s bodyguards, according to the interior ministry, in the latest attempt to incriminate him. Hashemi is in hiding in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region after Shi’ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered him detained on trumped up terrorism charges, in a broader plan to marginalize Sunni authorities [...]
President Barack Obama readily confirmed the drone war in northwest Pakistan in an interview Monday, breaking with the protocol which normally demands U.S. officials not speak publicly about the classified program. “I want to make sure people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties,” President Obama said in an hour [...]
The Obama administration will begin talks with the Iraqi government on a new long-term defense agreement that may include an expanded number of U.S. troops, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s chief policy aide. The scope and depth of the new defense relationship is not decided yet, but the Obama administration is reportedly “open to Iraqi [...]
Iraqi Govt. Slams US Over Constant Drone Surveillance | State Dept. drones cover Iraq to ‘protect embassy’
